Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honours Theses
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EVALUATING PRESCHOOL CHIDLREN’S ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND CONNECTION TO NATURE USING A GAMES TESTING TOOL
(2022-04)Establishing a connection to nature as a child is a necessity as it is crucial to enhancing children’s cognitive, attitudinal, emotional, and physical development (Driessnack 2009; Giusti et al. 2014; Bratman et al. 2015; ... -
PETROGRAPHY AND TRACE ELEMENT CHEMISTRY OF CALCITE VEINS IN THE DEEP DRILL 1972 DRILL CORE, BERMUDA ISLANDS
(2022-04)The Deep Drill 1972 drill core of the Bermuda Islands provides a representative sampling of Bermuda’s volcanic basement lithologies. Although there have been studies of the two primary lithologies over the past 50 years, ... -
TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF BIOTITE FROM THE SCRAG LAKE AND NEW ROSS PLUTONS OF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN BATHOLITH, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: IMPLICATIONS FOR MAGMA DIFFERENTIATION
(2022-04)The South Mountain Batholith (SMB) is a 7300 km2, peraluminous, felsic intrusion occurring in SW Nova Scotia. The batholith consists of 13 plutons emplaced in two different phases between ~385 (Phase 1) and ~368 Ma (Phase ... -
Impacts of Forest Loss on the Global Water Cycle of the Permian-Triassic Extinction
(2022-04)Recent studies have shown profound effects of deforestation on decreased precipitation and evapotranspiration. This can be attributed to the concept of green water, which is the volume of water stored in soils and ... -
Dissolution features on diamonds from hypabyssal kimberlite facies and the effect of melt composition on diamond resorption
(2022-04)Diamonds can preserve features from their time deep in earth’s mantle and their ascent from the mantle to the Earth’s surface in hot kimberlite magma due to their high stability. The record of dissolution textures on ... -
Parental Factors That Affect the Connectedness to Nature of Pre-School Aged Children in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2022-04)Time spent in nature has been found to promote a connectedness to nature (CTN) in both children and adults (Gifford & Nilsson, 2014; Deville, 2021). However, it has been found that people in North America are spending ... -
Evaluating the Historic Change in Per Capita Nominal Consumption of Animal Products in Canada Over the Past 60 to 100 years
(2022-03)Since the early 1960s, the global anthropogenic food systems have become incredibly resource intensive and have caused a global increase in greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater scarcity, land cover conversion, and biodiversity ... -
Characteristics of Metamorphic Textures of the Loch Eil Group of the Moine Highlands
(2022-04)Recent studies on the Moine supergroup suggests that ages over a large extent have been poorly constrained, and lack of research conducted is a result of structural complexity and mineralogical monotony. The purpose of ... -
Using Seismic Noise to Monitor COVID-19 Societal Response in Halifax
(2022-04)Seismometers record signals from more than just earthquakes. Cultural noise, high-frequency seismic noise generated from human activities (e.g., traffic) produces a distinct diurnal signature in frequencies above 1 Hz due ... -
The effect of a weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on ocean temperatures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence over the past 150 years
(2021-04-15)Ocean circulation is essential for transporting heat, dissolved CO2, and nutrients all around the globe. The strength of the ocean circulation, therefore, has a major influence on climate and vice versa. Over time, ocean ... -
Arcellaceans of Several Small Lakes in Southwestern New Brunswick; Their Modern Distribution and Stratigraphic Importance
(1983-04-15)Sediment-water interface samples from five small lakes in southwestern New Brunswick (Bonaparte Lake, Bocabec Lake, Gibson Lake, St. Patricks Lake and Big Pond [Deer Island]) were quantitatively examined for the presence ... -
Quaternary Geologic History of Lady Franklin Bank, Southeastern Baffin Shelf, N.W.T.
(1983-04-15)The Lady Franklin Sand and Gravel is an informal term for a compositionally sand and/or gravel surficial sediment unit of the southeastern Baffin Shelf, delineated on the basis of grab samples and acoustic data by Praeg ... -
The Origin and Emplacement of the Rock Units in Mule Creek, Northwestern British Columbia
(1983-04-15)In 1982 field work was carried out in northwestern British Columbia for Noranda Exploration Company, Ltd. Here a sequence of porphyritic and vesicular volcanic flows containing interbedded gypsum was discovered. Finely ... -
Lithofacies of the Lower Paleozoic Carbonate Shelf to Basin Facies Transition, West-Central Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic
(1983-04-15)The Upper Ordovician (Ashgillian) to Middle Silurian (Wenlockian) graptolitic carbonates and cherts of the Cape Phillips Formation accumulated in the deep water basinal environment of the Hazen Trough. The coeval platform ... -
The Lower Cretaceous Ellerslie Formation of Southeast Taber and Chin Coulee Oil Fields, Southeastern Alberta
(1984-04-15)Sandstones of the Lower Cretaceous Ellerslie Formation overlie a major unconformity in southeastern Alberta. Post-Jurassic erosion produced a subcrop pattern on which an extensive drainage system developed in Lower Cretaceous ... -
The Question of Relationship Between Low and High Grade Metamorphic Rocks in the French Mountain Area, of the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
(1984-04-15)French Mountain in the Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia is underlain by two broad metamorphic complexes: a metasedimentary complex and a composite gneiss complex. The metasedimentary complex, located on the southwestern ... -
A REGIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SCHEELITE OCCURRENCES IN THE MEGUMA QROUP OF NOVA SCOTIA
(1984-04)The scheelite deposits of the Meguma Group of Nova Scotia are found within interbedded veins in the slates and quartzites of the lower Halifax and upper Goldenville Formations. The veins are found at the edge of or within ... -
Marsh Foraminiferal Distribution in the Minas Basin and their Occurrence in Marsh Cores from the Region
(1983-04-15)The foraminiferal assemblages present along two Kingsport marsh surface transects were delineated into zones with respect to vertical elevation above mean sea level (a.m.s.l.), and salinities. The highest vertical zonation, ... -
The Relationship of Coastal Drumlins to Barrier Beach Formation Along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia
(1984-04-15)The Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia is experiencing post-glacial rise in relative sea level, resulting in a transgressive coastal environment. Drowned estuaries are fronted by eroding drumlin headlands which provide a sediment ...
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