Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honours Theses by Title
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Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Radiofrequency Fields
(2011-03)The objective of this study was to explore the spatial and temporal distribution of radiofrequency (RF) fields due to wireless device transmissions in areas of maximum human exposure in Halifax, Nova Scotia. These RF fields ... -
Spatial pattern of the shrub layer across the subarctic landscape of Churchill Manitoba
(2014-03)The shrub layer provides important habitat for wildlife throughout the harsh environment of the arctic tundra landscape. Studies have shown that the shrub layer is expanding in tundra landscapes and changing habitat ... -
Static or shifting: Quantifying the relationship between income and green space in urban Halifax, Nova Scotia (2001-2016)
(2019-04)Urbanization can have damaging effects on many cities by exacerbating existing social and environmental inequalities. Income inequality can have implications on urban environments particularly if it leads to strong ... -
Stratigraphic Analysis and Possible Tidal Influence in the Thorburn Member and Coal Brook Member, Stellarton Formation, Nova Scotia.
(2000-04-15)The Late Carboniferous Stellarton Basin is located in central Nova Scotia. It is bounded by the Cobequid Fault to the north and the Hollow Fault to the south. Dextral movement on these faults during the Carboniferous formed ... -
Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the Meaghers Grant Formation of the Musquodoboit Valley, Central Nova Scotia.
(1978-03-15)The Meaghers Grant Formation is a Lower Carboniferous siliclastic sequence in the Musquodoboit Valley of central Nova Scotia. It has been studied in outcrop and mainly in core. It lies wholly within the Lower Windsor Group ... -
STRATIGRAPHY OF THE GOLDENVILLE GROUP-HALIFAX GROUP TRANSITION (GHT) OF THE MEGUMA SUPERGROUP AT CARIBOU GOLD DISTRICT (DRILLCORE LL81-5A), NOV A SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)Drillcore LL81-5A, recovered from Caribou gold district, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, by Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. in 1980, is a 625.40 m-long continuous section of the CambroOrdovician Meguma Supergroup, representing ... -
THE STRENGTH EVOLUTION OF A CRUSTAL SCALE SHEAR ZONE
(2020-04-15)The brittle-ductile transition zone, thelocation of greatest strength in the crust,can be determined through the construction of a stress profilewith depth. The profile is constrained from the calculated flow stresses for ... -
Structural Analysis of the George River Group at North Mountain, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
(1978-03-15)Several different explanations of the structure of the George River rocks at North Mountain have been suggested in the past, none of which has proved to be very satisfactory. Milligan has proposed that the structure is ... -
Structural Geology and Deformation Of The Meguma Group At The Northeastern Contact Of The South Mountain Batholith, Halifax Area, Nova Scotia
(1997-04-15)Structural mapping and petrographic analyses were conducted to document the structural geology and deformation of the Meguma Group country rocks adjacent to the Halifax Pluton of the South Mountain Batholith (SMB) near ... -
Structural Geology of the Meguma Group Adjacent to the Eastern Contact of the South Mountain Batholith
(1995-04-15)The purpose of this study is to recognize and evaluate structural features that may be related to the emplacement of the South Mountain Batholith. The Acadian orogeny produced folds within the Meguma Terrane with a north-east ... -
Structure and Strain in the Burwash Formation, Northwest Territories.
(2000-04-15)The Burwash Formation is an extensive package of Archean volcanic-turbidite sedimentary units in the Slave Province, Northwest Territories. The turbidites are metamorphosed to greenschist facies, and have undergone two ... -
Structure of Bedrock Offshore From Point Aconi, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
(1995-04-15)The Prince Colliery is a major offshore coal mine operated by the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) in the Hub coal seam of the Sydney Mines Formation (Upper Carboniferous). This thesis presents the results of a ... -
Structure of the Dunamagon Granite, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland
(1994-03-15)New Structural data from field observations and microstructural analysis are the basis of description of structures in the Dunamagon Granite, for the purpose of determining whether it has an intrusive, or tectonic, contact ...