Equilibrium concentrations of the major species in conventional and halogen assisted CVD diamond synthesis systems were calculated and the results are presented in this thesis. The optimal diamond deposition conditions ...

Photochemical reactions between benzoquinones and alkylidenecyclohexanes proceed regioselectively. Regioselectivity is determined by the conformational properties of the cyclic olefin. Photocycloadducts thus obtained may ...

The early version of the Toffoletto - Hill - Ding open magnetosphere model is improved and generalized in this thesis. This model computes the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) dependent magnetic and electric fields in ...

Approximately 3000 km of high and intermediate resolution seismic data and 117 sediment cores were examined to reconstruct the late Cenozoic glacial history of Bransfield Basin, Antarctica. The complexity of a glacial ...

Yumaque formation biosiliceous sediments resemble modern and Neogene sediments deposited under coastal upwelling conditions. High biogenic silica accumulation rates (up to 69 g$\cdot$cm$\sp{-2}\cdot$yr$\sp{-3}$), preservation ...

Finite Element modeling of thrust faulting shows that the faults will propagate upward at very low angles from the leading edge of a regional horizontal decollement surface located at various depths in a homogeneous block ...

Piston cores and Precision Depth Recorder (PDR) data collected from the western margin of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula were examined to reconstruct the late Wisconsinian glacial setting of this region and characterize ...

Clastic packages studied in the southern East Pisco Basin represent the transgressive Late Eocene to earliest Oligocene Paracas Group, with questionable presence of the latest Oligocene to Early Miocene Chilcatay formation. ...