The Importance of the Integrated Approach to Evaluate Tight Gas and Liquid-Rich Plays; #41373 (2014)

S. P. Cheung and R. K. Strom

Search and Discovery.com

... these data sets with petrology: x-ray diffractometry (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), porosity/permeability (CMS-300 or TRA), backscatter...

Fine-Grained Volcanic Material within the Early Eocene (T50) Balder Formation: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration in the North Sea and Faroe-Shetland Basins; #10997 (2017)

Sapphire Wanmer, Brian Bell, David Brown, Giles Pickering

Search and Discovery.com

... North Atlantic Ocean: Initial Reports of the DSDP, v. 81, p. 913-923. Figure 1. Backscatter SEM image of altered juvenile blocky and poorly vesicular...

Mass-Wasting Events, Gravity Flows, and Their Impact on Channel Migration and Lobe Construction: An Example from the Nile Deep-Sea Fan, Oriental Mediterranean

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Quartz Cement in the Fontainebleau Sandstone, Paris Basin, France: Crystallography and Implications for Mechanisms of Cement Growth

Sasha C. Haddad, Richard H. Worden, David J. Prior, P. Craig Smalley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... an array of techniques to answer these questions, including transmitted-light optics, cathodoluminescence (CL), and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD...

Micropores in Carbonate Mud: Early Development and Petrophysics

F. Jerry Lucia, Robert G. Loucks

GCAGS Journal

...). The upper two samples (992 and 1071) contain 25 to 30% aragonite, respectively. SEM backscatter photographs show a few siltsized skeletal fragments...

MSGBC: Where is the Next Success?

Ben Sayers, Richard Cooke, TGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

...-Bissau. MB&SS has gained real technological ground in recent years with the advancements of MB tuning and backscatter analysis, which can now more...

Seep Hunting!

Stephanie Ingle, Jim Gharib

GEO ExPro Magazine

... calls ‘Seep Hunting’: skilled geoscientists using MBES data to interpret seabed geomorphology and hardness/rugosity (using backscatter) and to detect...

TGS in the MSGBC Basin: Aiding the Next Steps in Exploration

TGS Staff

GEO ExPro Magazine

... as ‘hard’ seafloor features from the backscatter (the strength of the returned pings). Backscatter anomalies can be due to hydrocarbons migrating...

An Easily Constructed, Very Inexpensive, Solar Cell Transmissometer (SCT): RESEARCH METHODS PAPERS

Stephen C. Knowles, John T. Wells

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and gives results of laboratory calibration, design, construction, and field testing alongside an optical backscatter sensor (OBS). DESCRIPTION...

Abstract: Fall and Initial Examination of the Sept. 25, 2009 Grimsby H5 Ordinary Chondrite; #90172 (2014)

Phil J. A. McCausland, Peter G. Brown, Alan R. Hildebrand, Roberta L. Flemming, Ivan Barker, Desmond Moser, Gordon Osinski, David W. Holdsworth, Jim Renaud, Wayne Edwards

Search and Discovery.com

... to the metal and troilite. In SEM backscatter, olivines do not show evidence of zoning, indicating a petrologic grade of 4 or higher (Brearley and Jones...

Geochemical Exploration Case Study of Fifteen Frontier Indonesian Deepwater Basins; #40602 (2010)

Bernie B. Bernard, James M. Brooks, Peter Baillie, John Decker, Philip Teas, Daniel L. Orange

Search and Discovery.com

.../backscatter anomalies and combined with 2-D seismic data. More than 1,200 piston cores were acquired during the study, each positioned with an USBL navigation...

Adaptive Eigenstructure Classification and Stochastic Decorrelation Filters for Coherent Interference Suppression in the Acoustic Zoom Method, #41503 (2014).

J. Guigne, S. Azad, C. Clements, A. Gogacz, W. Hunt, A. Pant, J. Stacey

Search and Discovery.com

... and gas exploration technology for 3D/4D seismic imaging that offers unique resolution and direct focusing of non-specular backscatter energy returns...

Imaging Microcrystalline Quartz in a Sandstone Reservoir to Understand the Formation of Microcrystalline Quartz in the Wolfcamp A Siliceous Mudstones, Southern Delaware Basin

Marsha French, Jacquie Colborne

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... varies consistently between each cement phase. Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) combined with Wavelength Dispersive Spectrometry (WDS) confirms...

2 Integrated Preparation and Imaging Techniques for the Microstructural and Geochemical Characterization of Shale by Scanning Electron Microscopy

Natasha Erdman, Nicholas Drenzek

AAPG Special Volumes

... characterization, such as backscatter electron observation at varying beam potentials coupled with x-ray and cathodoluminescence spectroscopic techniques. Behar...

Pyritized rod-shaped microbes associated with a silicified brachiopod, Permian, West Texas

Leslie A. Melim, Thomas A. Hegna, Brian J. Bellott, Javier Ortega-Hernandez, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril

PALAIOS

...-shaped pyrite aggregates (rod); euhedral pyrite (eu); and loose microcrystals (micro). A) Backscatter image of pyrite in mostly euhedral quartz...

Fiber Optic Revelations From a Multistage Open Hole Lateral Fracturing Treatment

Jason Baihly, Allen Dutt, Efejera Ejofodomi, Alex Menkhaus, Paul Dickenson, Colin Wilson, Kevin England

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the fiber such that it returns to the original location. This backscatter is measured using an optical detector. The part of the fiber at which the light...

The Filling of an Incised Valley by Shelf Dunes„An Example From Hervey Bay, East Coast of Australia

Tobias H.D. Payenberg, Ron Boyd, Jonathon Beaudoin, Kevin Ruming, Shannon Davies, Jason Roberts, Simon C. Lang

Special Publications of SEPM

... the dune crests can be traced across the valley margin and into the valley. Backscatter data from the multibeam survey also confirm the presence...

Selected Comparisons of Aircraft-Borne and Orbital Imaging Radar Data and their Geologic Significance

Allen M. Feder

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... appear subdued, possibly because of backscatter from the lower of the multiple canopies. By contrast, the uppermost vegetation canopy is fairly...

Connecting Geomechanical Properties with Potential for Proppant Embedment and Production Decline for the Emerging Caney Shale, Oklahoma

Margaret Benge, Yunxing Lu, Allan Katende, Jonny Rutqvist, Dustin Crandall, Adam Haecker, George King, Joseph B. Renk, Mileva Radonjic, Andrew Bunger

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Figure 7 show the microstructural characterization of each zone. URTeC 5084 4 Figure 3: Reservoir 1 SEM Backscatter Electron Diffraction (BSED...

Browse Basin 2014 Marine Survey - Investigating Containment for Potential Late Cretaceous CO2 Storage Plays, #80511 (2016).

Chris Nicholson, Rowan Romeyn, Megan Lech, Steve T. Abbott, George Bernardel, Andrew Carroll, David Caust, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Ron Hackney, Floyd Howard, Rachel Melrose, Scott Nichol, Lynda Radke, Nadege Rollet, Justy Siwabessy, Janice Trafford

Search and Discovery.com

... Data acquisition and survey workflow • • • • • • • • Multibeam bathymetry backscatter/side scan sonar Sub bottom profiler Water column (Single...

The Tectonically Controlled San Gabriel Channel–Lobe Transition Zone, Catalina Basin, Southern California Borderland

Katherine L. Maier,, Emily C. Roland, Maureen A.L. Walton, James E. Conrad, Daniel S. Brothers, Peter Dartnell, Jared W. Kluesner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Brothers, D., Conrad, J.E., Kluesner, J., Kent, G., and Andrews, B., 2015, Color shaded-relief bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, and selected perspective...

Interpretation of Sar Imagery for Exploration and Development in the Gulf Coast by Modifying Data Acquisition Conditions -- with Three Case Histories

Allen M. Feder , Harold R. Huth

GCAGS Transactions

... Flats (location B), Quaternary gravels of the same formation are changed from very low to very high backscatter as the angle of repose at the head...

Salt Precipitation in Ultra-Tight Hydrocarbon Reservoir Rocks: A Multi-Scale Experimental Study

Amir Hossein Alizadeh, Morteza Akbarabadi, Elizabeth Barsotti, Mohammad Piri, Neil Fishman, Nagi Nagarajan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... an Everhart-Thornley Detector (ETD) or backscatter electrons (BSE) using a Through the Lense Detector (TLD) in immersion mode. Voltages of 1 and 2 kV were...

Mineralogic Considerations for Uranium In-Situ Leach Mining: A Preliminary Study of Uranium and Associated Mineralogy of Roll-Front Uranium Deposits in Wyoming and Nebraska

Claudia L. Stewart, Larry J. Reimann, Susan M. Swapp

Wyoming Geological Association

... mineralogy analyses may be done to confirm the uranium species are amenable to carbonate leaching. For microscopic research, backscatter electron imaging...

4 Multiscale Imaging of Shale Samples in the Scanning Electron Microscope

Herman Lemmens, Dennis Richards

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Figure 1 shows such a high-resolution backscatter electron (BSE) image of a shale sample with the porosity in the organic matter clearly visible...