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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
I denne oppgaven har LiDAR-data innhentet med flybåren laserskanning (FLS) blitt brukt til geografisk analyse av Storsteinsfjellbreen i Nordland. Oppgaven er spesielt rettet mot anvendelser av LiDAR-data innenfor ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Sedimentary rocks from the Grønsennknippa area, located in Vestre Slidre in Valdres, have been studied by field investigations, remote sensing and laboratory techniques. The tectonostratigraphic setting has been briefly ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
Polar lows are important for society because of the sometimes extreme and potentially destructive weather that accompanies them. They appear most frequently at high latitudes on the northern hemisphere, especially over the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Det samlede arealet til de målte breene på Spitsbergen utgjør kun ca 0.5 % av det totale brearealet og halvparten av disse breene har et areal under 10km2 (Hagen et al. 2003). Ekstrapolasjon av målt massebalanse fra de ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Til tross for at isskred fra breer sjelden forekommer, utgjør disse en kontinuerlig fare for menneskeliv og infrastruktur lokalisert i nærområdene. Skred fra bratte breer kan forekomme som en naturlig del av ablasjonsprosessen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Sammendrag
Norges Geotekniske Institutt (NGI) har, på oppdrag fra Norges Vassdrags og Energidirektorat (NVE) inndelt kvikkleiresoner i fem risikoklasser basert på en evaluering av ”skadekonsekvens” og ”faregrad”. Det er ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
ABSTRACT
Borehole geophysical logging is viable method of determining the water quality and hydrogeological parameters of aquifers. A recent study was conducted to delineate the distribution of formation water salinity ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Fjellskred i Norge har hatt fatale konsekvenser i historisk tid.
Kartlegging, undersøkelser og overvåkning av potensielt rasfarlige
områder er viktig siden vi vet at nye fjellskred vil komme.
I denne oppgaven gjøres ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Studies have demonstrated that hydrophobic organic compounds (HOC) show strong sorption to black carbon (BC). Therefore presence of BC in HOC contaminated sediment reduces the in situ freely dissolved aqueous concentration ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Partitioning precipitation into rain and snow is of pivotal importance in hydrological models. Errors in correctly determining precipitation phase at the surface can propagate into other parts of the model, and there is a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Seepage and slope stability issues concerning infiltration in unsaturated slopes are investigated and presented. 2-D finite element analyses are used to study the effects of the different hydraulic characteristics of a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Abstract
The study was mainly focused on the development of the Late Cenozoic shelf outbuilding in the northern North Sea and offshore mid-Norway. Principles of seismic sequence stratigraphy were applied as a tool to ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Abstract
The Goliath discovery which occurs proximal in he Hammerfest Basin is particular for its size and it contents of oil, whilst other traps in the Hammerfest Basin are largely containing gas/condensate and generally ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Den turbulente dynamikken i det øvre havet er et mye omtalt tema av forskere. Tidligere studier har vist seg og støtte to hovedteorier; overflate kvasigeotrofisk teori og to dimensional teori. I denne oppgaven har vi brukt ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Conventional marine data is acquired by towed streamers and air-gun sources deployed at small distances below the sea level. A towed hydrophone records both upward travelling waves as well as downward travelling waves ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Change in glacier extent is a good indication of climate change. Inventories for glaciated areas should therefore be made at certain intervals. For New Zealand a digitized glacial inventory including both the two main ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Orografiske effekter kan påvirke vinden. Saltfjorden er omgitt av fjell og komplekst terreng. For å undersøke hvordan vinden her blir påvirket av topografien ble vinden i fjorden sammenliknet med vinden på Tennholmen fem ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Combination of field studies and analytical techniques provides the basis for unravelling the tectonic evolution of the continental crust. Here field studies together with the ID-TIMS method for U/Pb-dating have been applied ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2002)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2004)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2006)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2006)
An infrared heating lamp has been used as the driving force in laboratory experiments simulating the thermohaline circulation of the world ocean. The radiative energy from the lamp absorbed at different depths in the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Geologically, the Barents Sea with deep sedimentary basins, highs and platforms is a complex mosaic and formed as a result of different geologic and tectonic processes with complex geological history. The history of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Abstract
The Nesodden study area is part of the complex Southwest Scandinavian Domain in the Baltic Shield. To investigate its magmatic/metamorphic evolution, and to constrain magma sources, 482 in situ LA-MC-ICPMS U-Pb ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Oppgavens problemstilling er å gjøre en klassifisering av resente ferskvannsdeltaer på bakgrunn av planform (geomorfologi) sett fra kart og flybilder. Klassifikasjonens anvendelighet testes på norske ferskvannsdeltaer.
...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Abstract
Supercooled cloud droplets combined with strong wind, can produce heavy
ice accretions on unheated structures. It is called ”in-cloud atmospheric icing”,
and is a well known problem at high elevations in wintertime. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
A study of the important gases in the air at the Ny-Ålesund measuring station
at Svalbard is presented in this thesis. The monitoring station is located 474 m a.s.l. at
Mt. Zeppelin,
a mountain ridge with steep rocky slopes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Gjennom all tid har menneskene prøvd å få vite så mye om Mars som mulig. Gjennom århundrene har forskerne alltid brukt den mest avanserte teknologien i sin tid. Før Galileo Galilei kunne vi bare observere med det bare øyet, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
In this study of the Central Spitsbergen Palaeogene, depositional environments and transgressive-regressive developments of the Frysjaodden and Hollendardalen formations have been reconstructed with combined evidence from ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
The human influence on vegetation causes changes in the surface reflective properties.
By using MODIS land cover and MODIS surface albedo products, an estimation of radiative forcing due to surface
albedo changes caused ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
This thesis presents a study of the landsystem of the Svalbard tidewater glacier Paulabreen and its late Holocene surge moraines, focusing on the glaciology and the glacial geology. An active surge of Skobreen/Paulabreen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The risk associated with exposure to contaminants, has drawn attention to the fate and transport of contaminants in marine sediments. Remediation of contaminated marine sediment has been necessary at several locations to ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
På vestre del av Ringkøbing-Fynhøyden, mellom Sentralgraben og Horngraben, går det et skillet fra kaledonsk basement til prekambisk basement. Skillet kartlegges ved å følge forkastninger over basement, ettersom disse ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Sammendrag
Flom påfører i dag samfunnet store økonomiske tap. For å kunne forebygge og begrense disse skadene mest mulig er et godt analyseverktøy nødvendig. Slik at man f.eks. unngår å bygge eller tilpasser bygg på ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Oslofjorden er en typisk terskelfjord, som har vært utsatt for sterk forurensning over lang tid. Prøveområdet i denne oppgaven ligger ved Slemmestad og utenfor utslippene til Vestfjorden Avløpsselskap (VEAS) i Vestfjorden, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Oppgavens målsetting er å analysere den relative påvirkning naturressursene hadde for hvordan Kongo-krigen oppstod og utviklet seg. Den Demokratiske Republikken Kongo (DRK) er et av verdens mest naturressurs rike land, men ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Abstract
Mineralogical and chemical analysis of alum shale and black shale samples were done using the XRD, XRF, sulfur chemical analysis, petrographic and scanning electron microscopy. Samples from two study areas in the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
During the last decades, the Norwegian method of tunneling has been reviewed and continuously updated with the latest information and research results available. Despite the effort of making the practice of tunnel construction ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Numerical modelling of GPR wave propagation is becoming more and
more important. The ability to build complex models to mirror
complex subsurface structures can improve our understanding of how
electromagnetic waves are ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
En varslingsmodell har blitt utarbeidet for Sætreskardfjellet ved RV 15, Strynefjellsveien. Feltarbeid ble gjennomført vinteren 2002/03 der det ble logget snøtemperatur og gravd snøprofiler i ulike eksposisjoner og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Abstract
Stabilizing mercury is still a major challenge throughout the world and no consensus has been reached on the safe disposal of mercy until now. Several methods have been suggested on how to stabilize mercury ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Deep groundwaters are normally characterized by long residence times in the aquifer and by being well evolved geochemically. At Gardermoen the estimated average groundwater residence time is in the range of 20-30 years. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Målet med denne oppgåva er å vise korleis eksemplar frå eit lokalt naturmiljø kan innarbeidast som ein del av geografiundervisninga i den vidaregåande skulen. Oppgåva er i hovudsak avgrensa til den naturgeografiske delen ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Store fjellskred har ført til noen av de verste naturkatastrofene vi kjenner til i Norge. International Centre for Geohazards (ICG) har funnet flere lokaliteter i Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjorande og Troms-fylke som ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Underground structures are less sensitive to seismic shaking compared to surface structures. Several case histories reported damages to underground structures during major earthquake events. The damages are mainly related ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Oppgaven undersøker bruk av flytalgoritmer for skredforskning, med spesielt fokus på steinskred. Flytalgoritmer er i utgangspunkt et velbeskrevet fenomen innenfor hydrologien, så inspirasjon hentes fra dette fagfeltet. En ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The study area of this work belongs to continental margin offshore Angola. Despite the large amount of data acquired, the geometries of subsalt sedimentary layers and lower crustal structure offshore Angola remain much ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Abstract
The Lillehammer Submarine Fan Complex is a mixed mud/sand rich turbidite fan system. The fan complex was deposited in the Neoproterozoic Hedmark rift basin from west towards east extending at least 50 km from the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Late Ordovician-Early Silurian magmatism, probably in a continental arc setting, was responsible for the generation of the Hurry Inlet Granite batholith of Liverpool Land, East Greenland. The emplacement of this batholith ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
En sedimentkjerne fra Bunnefjorden er blitt analysert for dinoflagellatcyster. Rensetiltak har ført til reduksjon av næringsstoff tilførslen til indre Oslofjord de siste 10 år. Resultat av analysen viser en forventet ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)
Oppgaven omhandler klassifikasjon av terrengparametere, såkalt relieffklassifikasjon, for automatisk landformkartlegging. Som bakgrunn for dette ligger antagelsen om at det eksisterer en sammenheng mellom overflateprosess ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The spring flood is a multivariate event that can be characterized by the floodcharacteristics peak discharge, duration and volume. Traditionally these flood characteristics have been modelled separately, but by modelling ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The Ling Depression is a structural feature with a unique orientation in the Central North Sea which depicts the trend and linkage of deep extensional zones with the overlying structures. The Ling Depression is studied and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Digital terrain modeling has revolutionized the way topography is characterized and analyzed. Its applicability has widened to almost anything where topography has a role to play. On the other hand, digital soil mapping ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Hovudmålet med oppgåva har vore å lage ein metode for å klassifisere elvelandskap. Elvelandskap er definert som planmønster saman med naturtypen på elvebreidda. Hovudverktøyet skal vere M711-kartserien, og støtteverktøy ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Fronten av fire tidevannsbreer utgjør kalvingsbukta innerst i Van Keulenfjorden, en 43 km lang nordvest-sydøst orientert fjord sydvest på Spitsbergen. Zawadskibreen, Nathorstbreen, Liestølbreen og Doktorbreen går sammen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Literature studies considering the determination of rockfall runout range have shown that the utilization of rigorous physical models yields significantly different results. This is primarily due to the fact that rockfall ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This study comprises a geological reservoir characterization of paralic sandstone deposits with a case study of the Upper Jurassic Louriñha Formation in the Lusitanian Basin, which is an Atlantic rift basin located in ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
In this thesis, I present the results of a new approach to pre-stack Kirchoff depth migration using the Kirchoff algorithm and the Fresnel aperture features in order to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the seismic data ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
We decided to take a fresh new look at the historical hydrographic data from the Environmental Working Group-atlas (EWG) in light of the recent dramatic changes, first and foremost to shed light on the cause of the large ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Due to its topography and geological history, Norway is subject to high landslide hazard. On the 20th of June, 1996, a submarine land failure near the village of Finneidfjord (Mid-Norway) developed into a retrogressive ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Since its development in 1974 the Q-system for classifying rock masses has readily been used for dimensioning support measures in underground excavations in Norway and internationally. The Q-system, as it was originally ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The Mjølnir structure, SW Barents Sea, is one of the best-preserved marine impact craters on Earth. After impact on the paleo-seafloor about 142 Ma ago, this crater experienced an atypical deformation of its central peak, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Den tektomagmatiske aktiviteten i Oslofeltet startet i slutten av karbon og endte muligens så sent som i trias. Tidspunktet for da den tektomagmatiske aktiviteten startet, er godt begrenset, både ved biostratigrafi og ved ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Abstract
This thesis concerns certain aspects of the production of CCN. In-cloud oxidation followed by cloud droplet evaporation is an important chemical process where sulfate is produced, and only particles with radii ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2000)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The quest to unravel and better constrain the crustal architecture and related geological processes of South Atlantic margins underscores the importance of this study. This is true considering the huge economic prospect ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The Caledonian Orogen in East Greenland comprises an autochthonous basement complex overlain by a Late Proterozoic to Early Proterozoic cover sequence with a regionally extensive thrust sheet complex on top. The thrust ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
An assessment of extreme hydrological low flow and drought events is of vital importance to water resources management. One way to reduce the uncertainty in the estimate of the extreme events is to use a regional dataset ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
In October 2005, massive slope failures were triggered all around Guatemala by the heavy rainfall that accompanied Hurricane Stan and unchained a series of landslides, debris flows and lahars. Two communities called Panabaj ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The Imsdalen Submarine Fan Complex is a gravel and coarse sand dominated turbidite fan system. The fan complex was deposited in the Neoproterozoic Hedmark rift basin close to a basin margin bordered by the Imsdalen Fault. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
In this thesis I have studied several factors influencing the time average atmospheric circulation. The study introduced changes to the thermal and orographic forcing by altering and removing the heat sources and topography. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Orographically enhanced winds near the coast of Norway were investigated by changing the height of the orography. Two cases were chosen, one for Stad (Sta97) and one for Jæren (Jæ96), both being winter situations with ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Dagsjøen ligger 163 meter over havet, og er en av 28 grytehullsjøer som ligger på Hauersetertrinnet (Gardermoen) i Ullensaker kommune, Akershus fylke. Hauersetertrinnet ble dannet da det sen-weichelske isdekket hadde et ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The South Atlantic rift system developed during the Mesozoic breakup of Africa and South America. These continental masses belonged to the Gondwana Palaeozoic super-continent.
Rifting started in the south, and propagated ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Fluid flow through low permeability rocks is largely controlled by fractures. As a result, the remote detection and characterisation of fractures is critical for projects involving storage or extraction of fluids. A better ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Oppgaven presenterer et klassifiseringssystem for inndeling av elvelandskapstyper langs vassdrag, og er utviklet for at det skal kunne brukes på ulike typer vassdrag. Antall elvelandskapstyper kan variere etter representativitet ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
In sedimentary basins sills have a tendency to become emplaced in litholgies of lower mechanical competence, like shales, which can possess source rock qualities.
In this study has the thermal effects of thick sills on ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
The use of petroleum inclusions in petroleum and reservoir geology is a relative new tool utilized to get a better understanding of petroleum generation and migration, paleo-fluid distribution in traps, and the organic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
The risk associated with exposure to contaminants has, in recent years, drawn attention to the fate and transport of these contaminants in shallow marine sediments. It has been suggested that the transport of Hydrophobic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Oppgaven ser på muligheten for å benytte eldre flybilder med varierende kvalitet og temporal oppløsning for å detektere signifikant overflatedeformasjon i fjellsiden Torfastaðamelar, Hlíðarfjöll på Øst Island. Ved bruk av ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Abstract:
Accurate vegetation mapping is a crucial tool in the decision making process for the proper management of outfield areas. This thesis assesses the use of Landsat TM and ETM+ data for mapping the grazing quality ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
In this thesis the aim was to investigate the largely unknown potential of coals of the Tettegras Fm. (Billefjord Gr.) in two wells from the Finnmark Platform and to evaluate the generation and expulsion properties of these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Estimates are given of radiative forcings from various anthropogenic sources of stratospheric water vapor. These sources are direct emissions of water vapor from airplanes and the production of stratospheric H$_2$O by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This thesis is a short investigation of cirrus clouds above the ALOMAR observatory at Andøya.
Ice clouds are one of the main uncertainties in the cloud effects in atmospheric modelling.
Especially ice clouds in the arctic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Most maps and publications dealing with the geology of the Bodø-Sulitjelma area have postulated the presence of a major basement culmination; the “Heggmovatn basement dome” between Bodø and Fauske. Granitic gneisses and ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Estimation of extreme floods, based on statistical analyses of observed values of flood series, is associated with several problems leading to high uncertainty in the flood estimates. In particular is this related to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
A succession of crater infill sediments is preserved within the Ritland impact structure. Ritland is good example of a small depositional basin where a range of processes from debris flows to turbiditic currents and finally ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Fordampningsberegninger for Aursunden (690m.o.h.), Sør-Trøndelag, er utført for fordampningssesongen 2000. Instrumenteringen inkluderte en flåte med en metrologisk stasjon, en metrologisk stasjon nær sjøen, kontinuerlige ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Diatom analyses were carried out on two sediment cores, one from the North Labrador Sea and one from Davis Strait, West Greenland, in order to investigate Holocene climatic variability in relation to ocean circulation. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
Abstract
Glaciers are key indicators for climate change. Mass balance studies form the important link between advances and retreats of glaciers to changes in climate. Mass balance studies were performed in the balance year ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Some highly atypical oils from Scandinavia have been analysed and compared with some normal oils from the NOCS. The question is whether these atypical oils can represent additional petroleum systems in addition the the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The Eocene Ainsa Basin is situated in the central south Pyrenees formed by collision of the Iberian plate with the Eurasien plate during Late Cretaceous to early Miocene times. The basin was formed due to movements of the ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2007)
Vurdering av utslippsdata rapportert til Konvensjonen for langtransportert luftforurensning i 2007
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Next to air, water is the most essential of Man’s requirements for life. The amount of water necessary to society has increased as population and urbanisation have increased. Today, conflicting interest on water issues ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Vassdragene er en verdifull ressurs for mange ulike brukerinteresser, og utgjør livsnerven i en mangfoldig vassdragsnatur. Å forvalte Norges særegne vassdragsmiljø, er en kompleks og utfordrene oppgave som innebærer bred ...