Ahrens, Thomas J.

Committee Member — 49 thesises

• Ni, Sidao — 2D Modeling of Lower Mantle Structure with WKM Synthetics (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hofmeister, Anne Marie — A Spectroscopic and Chemical Study of the Coloration of Feldspars by Irradiation and Impurities, Including Water (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Atzmon, Michael — A Study of Bulk Amorphous Alloys Formed by Solid-State Reaction in Elemental Composites (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hazelton, Lowell Eugene — A Study of Hydrogen Mobility in a Glassy Zr₂Pd Using Internal Friction (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gazis, Carey Alice — An isotopic study of the fluid flow and thermal history of the 2.8 Ma Chegem ash-flow caldera and related intrusive rocks (Caucasus Mountains, Russia) (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vidale, John Emilio — Application of Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Wave Simulation to Earthquakes, Earth Structure, and Seismic Hazard (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fine, Gerald Jonathan — Carbon Dioxide in Synthetic and Natural Silicate Glasses (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stewart, Sarah Toby — Collisional Processes Involving Icy Bodies in the Solar System (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stewart, Gordon Selbie — Complexity of Rupture Propagation in Large Earthquakes in Relation to Tectonic Environment (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Weinong — Dynamic failure behavior of ceramics under multiaxial compression (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vizgirda, Joana Marija — Dynamic Properties of Carbonates and Applications to Cratering Processes (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richards, Mark Alan — Dynamical Models for the Earth's Geoid (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rowan, Linda Rose — Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano. (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blum, Joel David — Geochemistry and Resonance Ionization of Platinum-Group Elements (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, William Wyatt — High Pressure States in Condensed Matter: I. High Pressure Behavior of the Iron-Sulfur System with Applications to the Earth's Core. II. Empirical Equation of State for Organic Compounds at High Pressures (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohn, Stephen Norfleet — Holographic In-Situ Stress Measurement in Geophysics (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmitt, Douglas Ray — I. Applications of Double-Exposure Holography to the Measurement of In Situ Stress and the Elastic Moduli of Rock from Boreholes. II. Shock Temperature Measurements in Fused Quartz and Crystalline NaCl to 35 GPa (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, George (Guangqing) — I. High pressure melting of [gamma]-iron and the thermal profile in the Earth's core. II. High pressure, high temperature equation of state of fayalite (Fe2SiO4) (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Polanskey, Carol Ann — I. Impact Spallation Experiments: Fracture Patterns and Spall Velocities. II. Craters in Carbonate Rocks: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Analysis of Shock Damage (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Eh — I. Multi-Scale Dynamics of Mantle Plumes, and II. Compressible Thermochemical Convection and the Stability of Mantle Superplumes (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moses, Julianne Ives — I. Phase Transformations and the Spectral Reflectance of Solid Sulfur: Possible Metastable Sulfur Allotropes on Io's Surface. II. Photochemistry and Aerosol Formation in Neptune's Atmosphere (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Cangli — I. Rigid Body Penetration into Brittle Material. II. Phase Change Effect on Shock Wave Propagation (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Sheng-Nian — I. The Heterogeneities at the Core-Mantle and Inner-Core Boundaries from PKP Phases. II. The Static and Dynamic Behavior of Silica at High Pressures (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Wenbo — Impact volatilization of calcite and anhydrite and the effect on global climate from K/T impact crater at Chicxulub (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Winfree, Nancy A. — Impact-Induced Phase Transformations in Elastic Solids: A Continuum Study Including Numerical Simulations for GeO₂ (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Austin, Daniel Ephraim — Impact-Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Cosmic Dust (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, David Russell — Magmons: Solitary Waves Arising in the Buoyant Ascent of Magma by Porous Flow through a Viscously Deformable Matrix (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Joesten, Raymond Leonard — Metasomatism and Magmatic Assimilation at a Gabbro-Limestone Contact, Christmas Mountains, Big Bend Region, Texas (1974, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Le Bras, Ronan — Methods of Multiparameter Inversion of Seismic Data Using the Acoustic and Elastic Born Approximations (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schwendeman, Donald William — Numerical Shock Propagation Using Geometrical Shock Dynamics (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Svendsen, Robert Frederik, Jr. — Optical Radiation from Shock-Compressed Materials (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rulison, Aaron John — Part 1. Synthesis of ceramic powders by electrospray pyrolysis. Part 2. An approach to interplanetary particle sampling (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holland, Kathleen Gabrielle — Phase Changes and Transport Properties of Geophysical Materials Under Shock Loading (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gillespie, Alan Reed — Quaternary Glaciation and Tectonism in the Southeastern Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Echelmeyer, Keith Alan — Response of Blue Glacier to a Perturbation in Ice Thickness: Theory and Observation (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cipar, John Joseph — Seismic Source Processes and Tectonics: Observations of Four Intracontinental Earthquakes (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ai, Huirong (Anita) — Shock-Induced Damage in Rocks: Application to Impact Cratering (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kasiraj, Prakash — Shock-Wave Consolidation of Metallic Powders (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boslough, Mark Bruce — Shock-Wave Properties and High-Pressure Equations of State of Geophysically Important Materials (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shaw, Henry Francis, III — Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Isotopic Systematics of Tektites and Other Impactites, Appalachian Mafic Rocks, and Marine Carbonates and Phosphates (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Humphreys, Eugene Drake — Studies of the Crust-Mantle System Beneath Southern California (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rigden, Sally Miranda — The Determination of the Equation of State of Molten Silicates at High Pressures Using Shock-Wave Techniques (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vassiliou, Marios Simou — The Energy Release in Earthquakes, and Subduction Zone Seismicity and Stress in Slabs (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lagus, Peter Leonard — The Equations of State of Hydrogen and Argon: Applications to the Jovian Interior (1974, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jakosky, Bruce Martin — The Seasonal Behavior of Water Vapor in the Mars Atmosphere (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zajac, Blair J. — The State of Stress as Inferred from Deviated Boreholes: Constraints on the Tectonics of Offshore Central California and Cook Inlet, Alaska (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kohler, Monica Diane — Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure of the Earth's Outermost Core and Mantle (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Passey, Quinn R. — Viscosity Structure of the Lithospheres of Ganymede, Callisto, and Enceladus, and of the Earth's Upper Mantle (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brugman, Melinda Mary — Water Flow at the Base of a Surging Glacier (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))