The inadequacy of water and power supplies in Utah for agriculture, for industry, for domestic and community consumption has retarded the State's economic growth. Shortages of water and hyroelectric power are the principle impediments to the full realization of other potentials of Utah, that is, the full use of its arable lands, the wide and diversified use of its industrial raw materials, and the unrestricted development of its communities. The problem of securing additional sources of water and power has resolved itself into one of major concern. The objective of this study was to determine unit values of consuptive use of water by the major crops (alfalfa, small grains, and pasture) in the Ashley and Ferron Creek Areas of Utah. The consumptive use by the individual field crops was based on measurements of the depletion of moisture in the soil. Evapo-transpiration tank experiments were conducted in Ashley Valley throught the growing season and the volumes of water consumed were measured directly. Yield data were obtained from field samples and comparisons between yield and consumptive use were observed.

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Ce mémoire en création littéraire comprend deux parties distinctes. La première consiste en deux recueils de poésie, intitulés respectivement Carnets du chêne rouge et Signes. Ils évoquent des thèmes chers à Jacques Ferron : la prise de parole et l'enracinement. La deuxième partie présente une étude sur l'enseignement de la littérature. Elle tente de répondre, par une lecture de trois livres de Jacques Ferron, Contes, Cotnoif et Le salut de l'Irlande, à la question suivante : quels sont les a priori sur lesquels repose une pédagogie porteuse de sens ? Cette lecture dégage quatre éléments essentiels à la création de sens : l'imaginaire, qui sert aussi de contrepoids à la raison ; la prise de parole, ou l'expression an je personnel ; le langage créateur ; et la narration mythique. Est pris comme hypothèse que ces éléments concernent autant l'enseignement que l'existence humaine.

This thesis evaluates the nature, provenance, geometry and morphology of incised valley fills to test assumptions made by valley models using ancient examples from well exposed outcrops, in the late Turonian Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale Formation in southeastern Utah. The relevance of this work will have particular significance to long wavelength cycles of fluvial landscapes and valley morphology, non-marine reservoir characterization and significant implications for non-marine response to high frequency allogenic cycles such as climate change and changes in relative sea-level. This study illustrates the stratigraphic complexity of valley fill deposits at three levels of spatial resolution. At channel scale within the lower backwater, facies architecture and paleohydraulic analysis are used to predict the degree of shale drape coverage of point bars in a tidally-influenced incised channel. At channel belt scale the study documents a tidally incised, mudstone prone trunk-tributary valley fill and overlying highstand fluvial succession within a stratigraphic framework of fluvial aggragation cycles. 3D photogrammetry models and a high resolution GPS survey are used to restore the morphology of a trunk-tributary valley floor, revealing a surface of tidal ravinement and tidal drainage morphology. At a regional scale, this study radically revises the paleogeographic mapping of the Ferron trunk system, spanning over 1,600 km2. Provenance analysis reveals Ferron Notom trunk valleys were filled at times by sediment from the Mogollon Highlands of Arizona to the southwest, and alternately by sediment from the Sevier Thrust Front to the northwest. Evidence shows the Ferron trunk rivers, previously hypothesized to be an avulsive axial drainage, to be more analogous to Quaternary examples. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Coal reservoir quality in the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale, and in the Fruitland Formation is dependent on coal cleat characteristics. Coal reservoir permeability increases as a result of high cleat density. From careful outcrop examination, we were able to identify several factors that increase cleat density. Vitrain coal typically has the highest fracture density as a result of having well-developed face cleats and conchoidal fractures. Clarain coal contains face and butt cleats. Cleat density in clarain is also controlled by mechanical layer thickness. As mechanical layer thickness decreases, cleat density increases. Durain and fusain coals typically contain no welldeveloped cleat system, although their presence can affect mechanical layer thickness in adjacent coals, as they may form bounding units. Cleat density increases in the damage zone of faults and in the hinge-line of folds. Cleat-controlled reservoir permeability has beneficially affected methane production in one portion of the Drunkards Wash Gas Field, Utah, and appears to have negatively influenced methane production in the coalbed methane field.

In this thesis, the results of microfossil, biofacies, and geochemical analyses (µXRF) of the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Ferron – Notom delta, Utah, USA are reported and discussed. The Notom delta is the oldest of three clastic deltas in the Ferron Sandstone Member, Mancos Shale Formation. Foraminifera and testate amoebae were recovered from ninety-eight mudstone samples among five well-exposed outcrops (Caineville North, Steamboat, Blue Hills, Neilson Wash, and Coalmine Wash). Detailed observations showed foraminifera, and testate amoebae tests have undergone post-burial compression (flattening), dissolution, and transport/reworking; therefore, identification of these assemblages to their species level is difficult. The micropaleontological analysis of the Ferron-Notom delta consists of three studies. Morphogroup analysis was applied on foraminifera and testate amoebae, where a relationship between the test morphology and habitat was established. Morphogroup analysis resulted in four main morphogroups and eleven morphotypes and were assigned to life mode, environment, and feeding strategies. Three foraminifera morphogroups and one testate amoebae morphogroup were established indicate a range of environments, from shallow shelf to shallow shelf to lagoon/estuary environments. Biofacies analysis using the morphotypes was applied on three outcrops (Caineville North, Steamboat, and Blue Hills). We use the morphotypes to define the four main biofacies using cluster analysis, and biodiversity indices. Four biofacies showed marine and fluvial (freshwater) influences. Salinity and OM indices were derived from the relationship of foraminifera morphotypes (BiS, TrS, TS) and testate amoebae morphotypes (Ta-F, Ta-D, Ta-S) that follows lithofacies trends. Because of the under-representation of calcareous foraminifera (due to taphonomic and/or diagenetic factors), the biodiversity indices are treated herein as relative measures. Despite this taphonomic bias, the agglutinated foraminifera and testate amoebae morphogroups show trends with salinity both among the outcrops and stratigraphically within the outcrops. The Blue Hills outcrop represents the most landward and lowest salinity environment (tidally-influenced backwater), Steamboat is more coast proximal with a higher salinity of the delta front and fluvial estuarine environments, and the Caineville North outcrop represents the most coast proximal (fluvial/estuarine to deltaic/prodeltaic) with salinities ranging from low to medium. It appears that the landward transport and coastward of tests was a significant source of taphonomic bias. Nonetheless, the assemblages provide useful depositional information that correlates with previously documented lithofacies data. A salinity index based on a ratio of trochospiral taxa versus testate amoebae was found to provide a useful measure of coastal proximity that matches lithofacies trends. The µXRF analysis was conducted on twenty-nine mudstone samples from the Caineville North outcrop to examine elemental proxies for paleo-salinity (Sr/Ba), organic matter (K/S), redox (V/Ni), and sediment sources (Zr/Rb, Ti/Fe, Ti/Ca). Twenty-nine surface mudstone samples collected from four lithofacies representing prodelta, delta front, fluvial valley fill and shelf environments. Fourteen elements (Ti, Fe, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ni, Rb, Zr, S, V, Cu, Mn, Si, and K) were used to calculate proxy ratios to detect variations in terrigenous sediments, carbonate production, salinity, grain size, and fluvial inputs in the Caineville North outcrop. Elemental data showed good correspondence between the elemental data and the lithofacies and microfossil indices. Sr/Ba and Ca/Fe showed relationships with carbonate content and proximity to the shoreline. The paleo-salinity proxy (Sr/Ba) did not respond to salinity, but was more responsive to lithological change of carbonate content. The microfossil salinity index seems to be a more accurate paleo-salinity indicator. The proxy for fluvial input of sediment (Zr/Rb and Ti/Fe) agree well with the lithofacies trends, and Zr/Rb and Ti/Fe showed highest values within the fluvial valley fill facies, with higher variability of Ti/Fe compared to the other lithofacies (prodelta, delta front, and shelf), corresponding to response to the proximity of the depositional sites to a fluvial sediment source. The redox proxy V/Ni matched the previously derived microfossil OM index ("bolivind-type" taxa) showing a strong relationship between eutrophication and redox trends. The study aims to establish important baseline geochemical compositions of sediment sources to establish patterns and trends with sediment succession in the deeper basin (offshore; i.e. Mancos Shale). Potentially, these nearshore to fluvial trends will provide important geochemical data to assess changes in paleoclimate, and sea-level in offshore sediment successions. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Tableau d'honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2017-2018 / Le présent mémoire interroge l'articulation du narrateur-enfant et de l'esthétique réaliste magique dans deux romans québécois de la Révolution tranquille : L'Océantume de Réjean Ducharme et L'Amélanchier de Jacques Ferron. Il consiste en trois chapitres étroitement liés menant ultimement à une réflexion d'ordre sociocritique. L'objectif principal est de déceler, par l'étude du narrateur-enfant associé au réalisme magique, la critique sociale contenue dans les romans de Ducharme et de Ferron. Pour ce faire, nous proposons d'abord un survol historique des origines du réalisme magique. Nous examinons sa capacité en tant qu'outil de réflexion critique et présentons ses caractéristiques formelles dans le but d'y lier les romans de Ducharme et de Ferron. Puis, nous étudions la possibilité pour un narrateur-enfant d'établir et de maintenir cet univers réaliste magique. Pour mener cette analyse, nous recourons principalement à la narratologie de façon à bien saisir le fonctionnement et les différentes manifestations de la voix narrative réaliste magique. Nous rapprochons le potentiel critique du narrateur-enfant à celui du réalisme magique. Par l'entremise de ce rapprochement, nous pouvons enfin tirer des conclusions sur la façon dont les romans perçoivent le Québec de leur époque, promis au progrès de la modernité.

La partie création du mémoire est un roman, dans lequel sont insérés des contes de la tradition orale, racontés par les personnages. C'est l'histoire de Jo, une petite fille convaincue qu'il vaut mieux être un garçon et qui décide d'ailleurs d'en devenir un. Elle entreprend un voyage de Québec vers la Louisiane, à la recherche d'un ami disparu. La partie reflexive du mémoire porte sur l'influence que peuvent avoir les contes oraux ou écrits sur le développement de l'identité personnelle et de groupe, et en quoi la valorisation du patrimoine oral d'une culture peut contribuer à la garder vivante.

Jacques Ferron a écrit 197 lettres dans différents journaux et revues du Québec. De cet ensemble, 47 lettres forment le corpus à l'étude. Toutes ces lettres ont été écrites entre 1960 et 1969 et on les retrouve dans les pages du Devoir. La pratique de la lettre ouverte chez Ferron est méconnue et très peu étudiée. La manière dont Ferron l'utilise pour s'exprimer est au coeur de ce mémoire. Le traitement des cibles et la construction de l'ethos sont les éléments importants qui ont été analysés pour comprendre comment Ferron entre en relation avec ses adversaires et comment il se présente dans les lettres pour assurer la crédibilité de sa parole. Par la suite, le choix d'un discours, polémique ou pamphlétaire, et les conséquences d'un tel choix sur l'écriture ont fait l'objet d'une analyse, tout en tenant compte d'une perspective chronologique. Observer la manière dont Ferron pratique la lettre ouverte nous a amené à constater qu'il entretient des relations conflictuelles surtout avec des cibles ayant un lien direct ou indirect avec le pouvoir. Dans ces confrontations, Ferron tente de présenter l'image de celui qui est instruit et solidaire des préoccupations de la population tout en défendant son indépendance d'esprit. Quant au choix des discours, Ferron semble privilégier, tôt dans la décennie, le discours polémique, voulant ainsi entretenir le dialogue avec l'autre. Par contre, plus la décennie avance, plus le discours pamphlétaire et une forme hybride (présence dans une même lettre du discours pamphlétaire et polémique) s'imposeront comme choix. Il semble évident que le discours public de Ferron dans les lettres aux journaux se radicalise avec le temps.

Subject of the solution master´s thesis is new domestic building with polyfunction. It is four floors building with underground floor. Construction system is made by column with monolithic ferron concrete ceilings and monoplane roof. In underground floor is a garage. In First floor on south side is a space designated for commercial activities. Next on the floor is technical facilities and 7 flats. In next floors there is always 11 flats. Building is located in straight terrain in the development area of new houses in Zlin in area Bonecko.