Renard Centre of Marine Geology
Department of Geology, Universiteit Gent

  Theses : period 2015-2024

Albers, S., 2017. Korrelgrootte-analyse op afzettingen van de 2004 Indische Oceaan Tsunami in 3 kleine kustmeren in Khao Lak, Thailand. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 22 pp.

Albers, S., 2019. Lake sediment records of late Holocene proglacial floods from the San Lorenzo Icefield (Patagonia). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 53 pp.

Baten, A., 2019. The Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene geology of the Brown Bank area in the Dutch North Sea. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 51 pp.

Bertels, R., 2024. Reconstruction of the forebulge in the North Sea region during the last glacial period through glacial isostatic adjustment modelling. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 60 pp.

Billemon, P., 2017. Geo-archeologisch onderzoek naar het verdronken Domburg. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 23 pp.

Born, C., 2021. 3D modellering in de geologie – Methodiek en mogelijke academische toepassing met Agisoft Metashape. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 20 pp.

Bossée, K., 2021. A reconstruction of Miocene sediment wave dynamics in the Porcupine Seabight, offshore Ireland. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 54 pp.

Bortolini, L., 2018. Quaternary Sedimentary Evolution of two adjacent Canyon Systems along the North-Western Sicily Margin. M.Sc. thesis, Università di Bologna – UGent. 49 pp.

Bossée, K., 2019. Grootschalige sedimentgolven in de Porcupine Seabight. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 18 pp.

Buydens, L., 2015. De relatie tussen magnetische susceptibiliteit en korrelgrootte in Patagonische riviersedimenten. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 57 pp.

Buydens, M., 2017. Pleistocene cold-water coral deposits from Sicily (southern Italy): Paleoenvironmental reconstruction through facies analysis. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 43 pp.

Chtouris, N.K., 2020. Multibeam backscatter response from stratified shallow marine soft substrates. M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 68 pp.

Claeys, L., 2022. Studie van laharafzettingen in het Meer van Villarrica door historische erupties van de Villarrica vulkaan (Chili). B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 23 pp.

Claeys, L., 2024. Age-dating possibilities of lake sediments in the Laacher See caldera, Germany: Investigating the influence of volcanogenic CO2 gas emissions on radiocarbon dating. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 64 pp.

Collart, T., 2019. Cold-water corals in the Bay of Biscay – a chronicle of Holocene variability in the North Atlantic oceanic circulation. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 218 pp.

De Baerdemaeker, T., 2022. The seismic architecture of a buried Pleistocene landscape in the Brown Bank region (southern North Sea). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 59 pp.

De Bisschop, J., 2016. Influence of water column properties on multibeam backscatter. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 62 pp.

De Bruycker, W., 2017. Inferring bottom current dynamics from high-resolution multibeam data and seafloor imagery in the equatorial Pacific ocean. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 81 pp.

De Cleene, R., 2016. Sedimentary processes on the Explorer and Dangeard Canyon interfluves. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 60 pp.

de Clercq, E., 2023. Impact van staalname op korrelgroottedistributies van lacustriene en mariene sedimenten – Een wereldwijd perspectief. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 19 pp.

De Clercq, M., 2018. Drowned landscapes of the Belgian Continental Shelf: implications for northwest European landscape evolution and preservation potential for submerged heritage. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 334 pp.

De Decker, S., 2015. Sedimentologische studie van turbidieten in het Challa-meer. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 29 pp.

De Groote, J., 2022. How intra-annual snow cover variations can explain eruption seasonality of Villarrica Volcano (Chile). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 64 pp.

De Jonckheere, A., 2015. Magnetic susceptibility of volcanic ash soil profiles from northern Chilean Patagonia (44-47°S). B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 51 pp.

De Paepe, J., 2018. Integrated stratigraphic study of the Cretaceous deposits in the Campine Basin, Northern Belgium, based on reflection seismic and borehole data. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 64 pp.

De Potter, T., 2017. Bewaren van ons geologisch patrimonium aan de hand van lakprofielen van befaamde ontsluitingen in het Cenozoïcum in Vlaanderen. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 18 pp.

De Pryck, I., 2015. CT-beelden van contourietkernen: verwerking en data-interpretatie. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 37 pp.

De Tollenaere, Z., 2023. Sedimentaire karakterisering van een vulkanische tefra-laag in de Aysén fjord, Chili. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 22 pp.

Debacker, D., 2023. Seismische analyse en interpretatie van een studiegebied op de Zuidelijke Nederlandse continentale shelf. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 18 pp.

Debergh, R., 2016. Ice-rafted debris and calving activity in Almirantazgo fjord (Chilean Patagonia, 54°S). B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 18 pp.

Delbecque, W., 2023. Seismic stratigraphy of a sediment drift, using high spatial and vertical resolution – Seismic reflection to understand sediment structures underneath the seafloor. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 21 pp.

Delivet, S., 2017. Sedimentary expression of internal waves on Quaternary contouritic processes along the Irish and Moroccan Atlantic margins. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 243 pp.

Demeestere, K., 2023. Quaternary sediments of the Southern North Sea – core analyses in aid of palaeo-reconstructions. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 68 pp.

Deprez, M., 2016. Multiscale microCT imaging on sediment cores: Unravelling the paleoflow directions in a megaturbidite (Lake Lucerne, Switzerland). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 89 pp.

Desmet, J., 2024. Depositional patterns of rubber particles in the River Lys downstream of a highway point source (Drongen, Belgium) – Using PYR-GC-MS to quantify tyre wear pollution in riverbed samples. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 50 pp.

Dhaenens, D., 2017. Detailed seismic mapping of shallow gas in the nearshore area of the Belgian Continental Shelf. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 64 pp.

Eloy, J., 2016. Variations in sedimentological properties in Lake Challa, East Africa: Understanding the source to sink processes. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 61 pp.

Epizitone Ngulle, M., 2020. Assessing the complex relation between the Gentbrugge and Aalter Formations in the Belgian North Sea using offshore seismic data. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 46 pp.

Fiers, G., 2016. Postglacial evolution of biogenic silica productivity in Lago Castor, northern Chilean Patagonia. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 49 pp.

García Moreno, D., 2017. Origin and geomorphology of Dover Strait and southern North Sea palaeovalleys and palaeo-depressions. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 319 pp.

Ghazoui, Z., 2018. Late Quaternary Seismicity and Climate in the western Nepal Himalaya. Ph.D. thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes – UGent. 136 pp.

Goetheyn, D., 2022. Kiezen voor de Opleiding Geologie; Onbekend maakt onbemind. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 37 pp.

Goovaerts, E., 2023. Identificatie van sedimentaire processen langs een multibeam bathymetrie transect, offshore Ierland. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 17 pp.

Granon, E., 2015. Post-glacial evolution of Lago Castor (Chile, 46°S): a bulk organic geochemical perspective. MSc thesis, University of Lille. 39 pp.

Griffoy, J., 2015. CT-beelden van contourietkernen: verwerking en data-interpretatie. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 42 pp.

Guilbert, D., 2016. De link tussen bodemstromingen en koudwaterkoralen in de zuidelijk Golf van Cadiz. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 18 pp.

Hanifah, D., 2022. Late-Glacial Turbidites in Aysén Fjord (Chilean Patagonia): Glacial Lake Outburst Floods or Seismic Activity? M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 56 pp.

Huso, M., 2019. Reconstruction of Exploradores Glacier meltwater floods (Patagonia) through lake sediment analysis. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 25 pp.

Huso, M., 2021. Recent variations of southwestern Patagonian glaciers recorded in Falcon Fjord sediments (Chile, 49°S). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 63 pp.

Jünger, A., 2023. Origin and characterization of Middle-Late Pleistocene erosional landforms incised across the Dover Strait. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 42 pp.

Kaspathy Thevanayagam, P., 2021. Sedimentarchief van een klimaatgevoelig meer ontsluit Holocene klimaatvariatie in Oost-Afrika. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 52 pp.

Kempf, P., 2016. Tsunamis in south central Chile – Evidence from the sedimentary infill of coastal lakes. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 172 pp.

Kiekens, N., 2016. Distinguishing between source areas of lacustrine turbidites triggered by the 1960 and 2010 great Chilean earthquakes. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 90 pp.

Lardinois, L., 2022. Studie van een megaturbidiet uit het Meer van Panguipulli – De evolutie van de samenstelling en korrelgrootte in een megaturbidiet uit het Meer van Panguipulli, Chili. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 21 pp.

Liu, D., 2020. Integrating sediment grain size and inorganic geochemistry: Implications for paleohydrological research in Patagonia. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 165 pp.

Liu, S., 2020. Contourite depositional systems in the Le Danois Bank region, southern Bay of Biscay - Sedimentary, tectonic and paleoceanographic implications. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 155 pp.

Lowie, N., 2017. Evaluation of the detection and quantification of sediment plumes caused by dredging activities using a multibeam echosounder. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 54 pp.

Marte, R., 2017. Geo-archaeological mapping of nearshore and intertidal areas at the Belgian coast (Ostend-Raversijde) using ultra-high resolution three-dimensional parametric echosounding. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 65 pp.

Mestdagh, T., 2015. Evaluation and modelling of the response of gas hydrate reservoirs to changing environmental conditions across a high-latitude continental margin. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 95 pp.

Mestdagh, T., 2020. Late Quaternary stratigraphic and sedimentary evolution of the northern Gulf of Cadiz continental margin: New perspectives from shelf-to-slope correlation and borehole-seismic integration. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 180 pp.

Minnaert, M., 2021. Seizoenale sedimentatie in Laacher See – Korrelgrootte-analyse van fijngelaagde afzettingen uit een calderameer in westelijk Duitsland. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 17 pp.

Montereale Gavazzi, G., 2019. Development of seafloor mapping strategies supporting integrated marine management: application of seafloor backscatter by multibeam echosounders. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 365 pp.

Nguyen, N., 2019. Fjord sediment records of Patagonian river discharge during the last centuries. M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 45 pp.

Oyarekhua, B., 2024. Late Holocene Evolution of the southern hemisphere westerlies based on sediments record of Lake Huelde. M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 73 pp.

Papadimitriou, I., 2016. Post-glacial tephrostratigraphy of the southern Chilean Lake District. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 97 pp (+appendices).

Papadimitriou, I., 2020. Environmental change in equatorial East-Africa: A zoom-in on the last 3000 years. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 62 pp.

Peirs, K., 2022. Studie van laharafzettingen uit het Meer van Calafquén door historische erupties van de Villarrica vulkaan (Chili). B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 16 pp.

Piret, L., 2016. Triggering mechanism and depositional processes of a late Holocene megaturbidite in Baker fjord, Chilean Patagonia. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 59 pp.

Piret, L., 2023. Understanding how glacier dynamics are recorded in lake and fjord sediments. PhD thesis, UGent. 185 pp.

Potums, L., 2017. InSAR insights: Land surface deformation around coastal lakes along the Nankai Trough subduction zone, Japan. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 42 pp.

Praet, N., 2020. Towards the construction of a lacustrine paleoseismic record in south-central Alaska: a trembling tale of landslides and turbidites. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 377 pp.

Reyniers, P., 2022. High-resolution seismic stratigraphy of the Brown Bank Formation, southern North Sea. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 56 pp.

Rochas Aldana, A., 2018. Evolution of San Lorenzo proglacial floods (Patagonia) during the late Holocene: Are they related to glacier variability? M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 34 pp.

Rondelez, J., 2015. Kartering van afglijdingen op seismiek van Tustumena Lake, Alaska. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 29 pp.

Rondelez, J., 2017. Assessing the morphology and evolution of sediment waves adjacent to the Cap de Creus Canyon, NW Mediterranean. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 72 pp.

Shymbaliova, N., 2021. Very-high resolution ROV-borne multibeam mapping of dynamic seabed features over a contourite drift, offshore Ireland. M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 32 pp.

Stammen, S., 2019. Evaluating the intensity of Late Holocene proglacial floods in Patagonia, based on the grain size of floodplain sediments. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 19 pp.

Swai, V., 2018. Lake Chala turbidite stratigraphy: developing a method to identify and quantify surficial slope sediment remobilization. M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 36 pp.

Tanghe, N., 2016. The palaeo-environmental history of equatorial East Africa: Implications from mineralogy and particle-size distributions. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 48 pp.

Thys, S., 2016. IRD in recente meersedimenten in Zuid-Alaska: uitkarteren met behulp van X-stralen tomografie. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 22 pp.

Thys, S., 2018. Gas extraction and gas analysis of a deep Greenland ice core – Optimizing a grating-extraction method. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 44 pp.

Troch, M., 2017. Spatial variability in proglacial fjord sediment composition along the Southern Patagonian Icefield (47-51°S). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 71 pp.

Troch, M., 2023. Influence of climate change on the postglacial evolution of Patagonian glaciers and response of the solid earth. PhD thesis, UGent. 138 pp.

Uvin, K., 2020. Seismische stratigrafie van het midden en laat Pleistoceen van de zuidelijke Noordzee – Een onderzoek aan de hand van hoge resolutie sparker gegevens. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 48 pp.

Van Bastelaere, B., 2022. Depositional patterns of microplastics in river sediments: a case study from the Leie River (Oost-Vlaanderen; Belgium). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 59 pp.

Van Bruyssel, T., 2023. Seismische analyse en interpretatie van een studiegebied in de Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 19 pp.

Van den Berghe, M., 2015. First quantitative assessment of buried cold-water coral mounds along the Moroccan Atlantic margin. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 54 pp.

Van der Looven, T., 2019. Stratigraphic forward modelling the late Oligocene to middle Miocene evolution of the Maldives carbonate platform (Indian Ocean). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 70 pp.

Van Dyck, T., 2016. A detailed study of the depositional process of the 1964 AD megaturbidite in Kenai Lake using X-ray CT. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 99 pp.

Van Goethem, D., 2015. A diatom-based reconstruction of late Quaternary climate changes in a sediment core of Lago Castor, North Patagonian Chilean Andes. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 86 pp.

Van Havere, M., 2016. Micropalaeontological and sedimentological analyses of Equatorial Pacific deep-sea sediments. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 90 pp.

Van Lierde, I., 2021. Verandering in sedimentatie in het Maninjaumeer in West-Sumatra, Indonesië – Het gevolg van vulkanische activiteit? B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 19 pp.

Van Lierde, I., 2023. Deciphering the impact of climate, anthropogenic and volcanic activity on recent environmental changes in an Indonesian crater lake. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 59 pp.

Van Maldeghem, F., 2016. Reconstructing the late Holocene earthquake activity of western Nepal from lake sediment records. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 21 pp.

Van Poucke, W., 2024. Linking sedimentary earthquake imprints to ground motions in south-central Alaskan lakes. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 60 pp.

Van Roozendael, B., 2019. Integrating multibeam echosounder data and video observations for high-resolution mapping of coarse substrates: northwestern area of the Belgian Part of the North Sea. M.Sc. thesis Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, UGent. 69 pp.

Van Schandevyl, E., 2016. A dinoflagellate cyst study in core MD01-2449 as a paleoenvironmental proxy for the late Quaternary in the Seabight, SW of Ireland. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 92 pp.

Van Tornhout, E., 2015. Korrelgrootte en magnetische susceptibiliteit van sedimenten uit Almirantazgo fjord (Patagonia, Chili, 54°Z. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 27 pp.

Van Tornhout, E., 2017. Sedimentological expression of bottom currents along the upper slope of the northern Moroccan Atlantic margin over the past 1,6 My. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 50 pp.

Vancraeynest, F., 2015. Contourite depositional systems in the El Arraiche area, Moroccan Atlantic margin. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 55 pp.

Vandekerkhove, E., 2021. Impact of climate change on the occurrence of late Holocene glacial lake outburst floods in Patagonia: A sediment perspective. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 191 pp.

Vander Cruyssen, P., 2023. Verkennende analyse van kernen uit een sediment drift, offshore Ierland. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 21 pp.

Vander Haegen, N., 2024. Mound- en moatsedimenten in de Porcupine Seabight – Sedimentologische vergelijking. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 16 pp.

Vandorpe, T., 2017. Contourite drifts and cold-water coral mounds in the Atlantic Moroccan coral province: origin, evolution and driving factors. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 172 pp.

Veloso-Alarcón M.E., 2016. Determining the flux /flow rate of free gas in the water column using hydroacoustic systems. Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 211 pp.

Vercruysse, P.J., 2021. Antropogene invloed op het meerniveau van Laacher See – Analyse van de samenstelling en korrelgrootte van recente afzettingen uit een calderameer in Westelijk Duitsland. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 20 pp.

Vercruysse, P., 2024. The paleoseismic record of Iceberg Lake, a recently drained lake at the eastern edge of the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 61 pp.

Verhaest, J., 2024. Sedimentologische karakterisering van offshore tsunami-afzettingen rond de Shetland-eilanden. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 12 pp.

Vermassen, F., 2015. A detailed study of the depositional process of the 1601 AD megaturbidite in Lake Lucerne using X-ray computed tomography. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 87 pp.

Vervoort, M., 2019. Sedimentaire karakterisering van het Singkarak Meer in West Sumatra. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 18 pp.

Vervoort, M., 2022. Seismic stratigraphy of Lago Pollux (Aysén Region, Chile): a record of deglaciation and local seismic activity. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 60 pp.

Verweirder, L., 2019. Tsunamigenic potential of submarine landslides on passive margins: case study for the Irish margin. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 73 pp.

Verwimp, A., 2020. Investigation of sublacustrine seeps at the Laacher See volcanic lake (Eifel, Germany). M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 60 pp.

Wermersche, M., 2019. Late Holocene sediment drift in Aysén Fjord (Chilean Patagonia) – A geophysical and sedimentological study. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 49 pp.

Williamson, S., 2021. Geomorphological investigation of submarine glacial landforms off the Northeast of Ireland. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 49 pp.

Willocx, A., 2023. Welke staalmassa’s zijn optimaal voor analyses op de korrelgrootte van sedimenten ? Een onderzoek op variabele lacustriene en mariene sedimenten uit Chili. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 19 pp.

Wils, K., 2016. Reconstruction of the seismic history of Aysén fjord (South Chile) by means of seismic stratigraphy and sediment-core analysis. M.Sc. thesis, UGent. 78 pp.

Wils, K., 2021. Seismotectonic and sedimentological approaches for disentangling different types of earthquake sources in a context of oblique subduction (Southern Chile and West Sumatra, Indonesia). Ph.D. thesis, UGent. 185 pp.

Wuytack, T., 2015. Studie van korte sedimentkernen uit verschillende Alaskaanse meren. B.Sc. apprenticeship report, UGent. 29 pp.

Zucchiatti, G., 2018. Analisi granulometrica e composizionale dei sedimenti dei Moira Mounds (Porcupine Seabight, Atlantico nord-orientale). B.Sc. thesis, Università di Milano-Bicocca – UGent. 38 pp.

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