Thesis (M.S.)--Humboldt State University, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-63).

Thesis (M.S.)--Humboldt State University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-65). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-158). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

M.Sc. (Geology) / Rocks of the Witwatersrand Super group in the northern portion of the East Rand Goldfield have been examined on surface and in underground exposures in an attempt to establish the chronology, movement vectors, amount of strain and displacement associated with bedding parallel faults. It was found that more than one age of movement occurred along most of the non-bedding parallel fault planes with normal, reverse and strike-slip senses of motion. The ductile bedding plane faults are manifested in all lithologies, but the shale units have, in particular, acted as a locus for shearing and it is suggested that they should be regarded as phyllonites. Bedding parallel faults are generally characterised by the presence of quartz veins and the development of phyllosilicates. They are categorised as mylonitic quartz schists. Syntectonic fault restricted quartz veins generally parallel the foliation, developed in the plane of flattening, and aided the movement of overlying strata during fault formation. Kinematic indicators imply a broad northerly up dip movement on the bedding parallel faults; implying they are thrust faults. Directionally specific kinematic indicators display at least two directions of thrust movement in the Central Rand Group, one to the NE and a second to the N to NW. The second group may represent two overlapping directions of movement. Only NE thrust movement are indicated in the West Rand Group. The NE thrust event occurred after emplacement of Ventersdorp dykes and before deposition of the rocks of the Black Reef Quartzite Formation. The N thrust fault event occurred after deposition of the Black Reef Quartzite Formation and before deposition of Karoo age rocks. A possible third event of Bushveld Igneous Intrusion age may be manifested as thrust faults towards the NW. The contact between the Central and West Rand Groups has acted as a major decollement during the N thrust event. The folds in this region may initially have been the result of thrust faulting towards the NE. Tilting of the fold axes during the postulated NW event is possible.

Thesis advisor: Mark D. Behn / The global mid ocean ridge system is segmented by transform faults and non-transform discontinuities. Oceanic transform faults display distinct morphology characterized by a deep valley and shallow transverse ridges on either side of the valley. Although the morphology of oceanic transform faults is known to first order, there is no consensus on the processes that form the transform valley and/or the adjacent transverse ridges. To date, most models of transform morphology attribute these features to either transform-normal extension or to shear stresses induced by slip along the fault. In this thesis, I compile bathymetric data along 16 major transform faults on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and identify the key morphological properties of each transform. Specifically, I estimate transform valley width, depth, and total relief measured from the valley floor to the adjacent transverse ridges. The strongest correlation is between the relief and maximum depth, but there is a weaker correlation between maximum depth and valley width. These morphologic properties are then compared to key fault parameters such as slip rate, fault-normal compression/extension rate, thermal area, and the seismic coupling ratio, which is defined as the fraction of total fault slip that occurs seismically. These comparisons are used to test models that describe mechanisms of the formation of the transform valley. The strongest correlation is between the fault thermal area and valley half width. This suggests that the width of the transform valley may be controlled by the shear stress applied to the fault as it slips. By contrast, the data are not consistent with a model in which the valley is created by extension across the fault, because our data show that the maximum transform valley depth increases with compression and not extension. / Thesis (MS) — Boston College, 2024. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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Four maps in pocket. / Digitized by Kansas State University Libraries

A project was sponsored by the SERC for research into the design of a colour vision system for the detection of print faults in rotary screen printed fabrics. The research was carried out at De Montfort University (formerly named Leicester Polytechnic), which has previous experience with Image Processing in relation to Textiles. The proposed system was required to identify, process and correct the common print faults which can occur during rotary screen printing. These can be divided into two main categories, systematic and random faults. This thesis covers the work undertakeni n the developmento f a laboratory-basedin spection systema ndt he subsequendte velopmenat nd testingo f methodologiesto facilitate factory-based on-line inspection. Initial investigation identified the requirement for colour segmentation algorithmsa ndt he researchin to anda nalysiso f suitablem ethodologiesf or segmentationf orms a fundamental part of this thesis. Important, new colour segmentation algorithms were developed from first principles by the author. These new methods offer improvements (in most cases significant) over the current `state-of-the-art' colour segmentation technology, and are applicable to a wide-range of computer vision tasks. These proposed methodologies have been rigorously tested and the findings of the investigation are presented as part of this thesis.

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