Through an emphasis on the formal similarities in black and white photographs of human bodies and rocks, I attempt to shift my viewer’s existential conception of the “self” by communicating a pansychistic and ecofeminist message which inspires humility in one’s place in the world and justification for the necessity of compassion for nature.

Graduation date: 1971

This study examined the foraminifera and the ecologic conditions of the benthic environment of the Oregon shelf and the uppermost slope (75-550 m depth) between 143°45' N and 144°40' N. Seasonal collections monitored the near-bottom marine environment and the sedimentary substrate at 16 stations. The foraminiferal benthic fauna was examined from eight seasonal stations and two additional stations. Use of a multiple corer provided randomly selected subsarnples of the sediment for ecologic and faunal analyses. Use of water bottles that triggered upon bottom impact provided measurements of the water as close to the bottom as 0. 6 m. Computerized data processing and statistical analyses aided the ecologic and faunal evaluations. The environmental study showed the existence of considerable variation in the hydrography of near-bottom waters, especially between summer and winter (upwelling and non-upwelling) collections at the same station. Upwelling conditions directly affect the benthic Redacted for Privacy environment. In addition, the water at any one place, at least dciring upwelling, was so well mixed that vertical stratification did not exist between 0.6 and 5.0 m off the bottom. Statistically significant sea-. sorial variations in surface sediments at the same station were not observed. The living benthic foraminiferal fauna exhibited considerable within-station variation both in species composition and in specimen size of selected species. The percent abundance of individual dominant species varied in adjacent cores (subsamples) by amounts up to 46%. Living specimens of a single species were found that were three times as large as the smallest living specimen from the same sample, yet there was no evidence of a multimodal size distribution resulting from age classes. The author suggests that the dominant species are aggregated and that the aggregations are colonies of asexually produced siblings. Lack of fit of species-frequency curves to the lognormal distribution indicated that relatively few species are fit to reproduce in a particular environment; most juvenile specimens that enter a particular environment belong to species that will not thrive there and either die or simply maintain growth with little chance of reproductive success. The existence of colonial aggregations of individuals is considered to provide the best explanation of the observed variations between adjacent samples. However, the observed variations could be due to sampling error or to substrate microheterogeneity. A possible natural community of 15 dominant species has been determined for those species that form a consistent part of each other's biologic environment. The community crossed the depth and substrate boundaries upon which the stations were selected and appeared to be a general community for the Oregon outer shelf. The limits of the community appear to be determined mostly by water depth, with approximate boundaries at 75-100 m and somewhere between 200-500 m. Regression analyses to determine the ecologic control on the foraminiferal fauna did not indicate a close correspondence between faunal parameters and environmental variables. Regression analyses to determine the ecologic control on mdividual species indicated that most species depended upon a set of two to four environmental variables rather than upon one single limiting factor. The set for each species was different. Temperature. phosphate concentration and oxygen concentrations were common hydrographic members of sets; percent silt, percent sand, percent clay, organic carbon content and organic nitrogen were common sedimentary members of sets. / Graduation date: 1972

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1982. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 1981. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1982. / Supervised by Gabriel T. Csanady. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-225).

El reconocimiento de este tipo de borde de plataforma forma parte de los objetivos que se planteó el grupo multidisciplinario para realizar el estudio del Play Neógeno (Mioceno-Plio-Pleistoceno). El área de estudio comprende el sector sur-oriental costa afuera de la cuenca de Burgos hasta la batimetría de 500 m. Debido a que en el área Lamprea la sedimentación está afectada por deformación estructural causada por fallas lístricas de crecimiento, los bloques colgantes tienden a rotar formando depocentros locales hasta subcuencas intratalud. En este marco geológico regional ubicamos estos bordes de plataforma retrógrados en el play Plataforma de la secuencias Plioceno Inferior y Mioceno Superior. Genéticamente estos bordes retrógrados se forman debido a que las tasas de sedimentación y subsidencia en el Golfo de México son superadas por catastróficos colapsos instantáneos del margen de la plataforma asociadas a fallas lístricas regionales que reubica este borde hacia el continente detrás de la cicatriz de un deslizamiento. Oportunidades de entrampamiento son generadas por estos procesos, así se generan bloques de colapso que se ubican en la parte baja, luego el posterior relleno retrocedente en un dominio de talud superior y finalmente la progradación de clinoformas de facies marino someras de origen fluvio-deltaico. La posible fuente de sedimentos que podrían haber sido capturados por estos bordes retrógrados lo constituye un episodio volcánico formado a lo largo del eje Sierra de Tamaulipas – Alto de San Carlos. / The recognition of this type of Shelf Margin is part of the goals for the multidisciplinary group LAMPREA in the Regional study “Gulf of Mexico Neogene Play Evaluation” (Miocene-Plio-Pleistocen). The study area comprises the seismic volumes Lamprea-Chairel and Escolleras 1 respectively, which cover south-east block off shore Burgos basin until 500m. bathymetry. In Lamprea Area, sedimentation is affected by structural deformation caused by growing lístric faults, in which the hanging blocks exhibit rotation of sediments forming local sub-basins. In this geological framework, Retrograde Shelf Margin is developed, mainly in lower Pliocene and Upper Miocene stratigraphic sequence. Genetically Retrograde Shelf Margins occur due to the sedimentation and subsidence rate are overcome by instantaneous catastrophic collapse of shelf margins, associated with regional lístric fault. Later shelf margin is relocated landward behind collapse scour. Traps in this Play are generated by this process in which coarse sediments fill lower part and later shale and silts seal these sands, finally fluvio-deltaic shallow water clinoforms complete the sequence. Volcanic Arch located close to Sierra de Tamaulipas – San Carlos High could be source for sand prone deposits captured during Retrogradation of the shelf margin.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. O'Brien, James J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Oceanography. Title and description from dissertation home page (June 18, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. Jeff Chanton, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Oceanography. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 16, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-225). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.