Carbonate Sediment Production by Sargassum Epibionts

Harold Pestana

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... or m re tar balls. Much Sargassum is, undoubtedly, buried like the tar, and the carbonate epibiont skeletons added to the beach sediment. Desiccation...

Abstract: Recognition of Deltaic Environments from Small Samples

Frank G. Ethridge , David K. Davies

GCAGS Transactions

... Delta, and the Burdekin Delta, Queensland, Australia. Within the Mississippi Delta complex, transgressive beach, natural levee-channel-delta front, open...

Occurrence and Origin of Clay Pebbles on the East Coast of Johore, Malaya

J. J. Nossin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... is found higher up the beach at a storm tide mark mainly as the result of monsoon storms. The size of the clay pebbles ranges between 0.5 and over 30 cm...

3D installation of fiber cables for acquiring 3C DAS array data

Yingping Li, David Li, Lianjie Huang, Yingcai Zheng

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... “beach balls”. The DTT modeling results demonstrate that the normal of those two-color “beach balls” point to the seismic sources (Fig 2b). Figure 3a...

Flume Experiments on the Durability of Mud Clasts

Norman D. Smith

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... deposits probably underwent little transportation from their site of origin. BELL, H. S., 1940, Armored mud balls--their origin, properties and role...

The Oil-Prone Morum Sub-basin Petroleum System, Otway Basin, South Australia

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... balls are destroyed through abrasion on the sea floor during saltation and t hus rarely progress to the beach. • PESA news Huntley, D.j....

A Preliminary Report on the Microplankton and Microbenthon Responses to the 1979 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills (IXTOC I and Burmah Agate), with Comments on Avenues of Oil to the Sediments and the Fate of Oil in the Column and on the Bottom

Richard Casey , Anthony Amos , John Anderson , Robert Koehler , Rudy Schwarzer , Jon Sloan

GCAGS Transactions

... pelagic avenues of oil to the bottom were recognized -- tar balls and oil on the bodies of dead plankton near the Burmah Agate, flocculation of adhering...

Stratigraphy of the Midway and Wilcox Groups

Karl J. Koenig

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... bed suggests a beach deposit in which the shells accumulated as a beach shingle. In many places the shells are broken and wave worn. The common oyster...

The Morum Sub-Basin Petroleum System(

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Natural Hydrocarbon Seepage in the Gulf of Mexico

Richard A. Geyer , William M. Sweet, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... and asphalts on the beaches of the northern Gulf of Mexico, with notes on the beach conditions and the associated biota: Unpubl. report. Hodgson, G. W. et...

Future of Microseismic Analysis: Integration of Monitoring and Reservoir Simulation, #40784 (2011)

Leo Eisner, Vladimir Grechka, Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

Search and Discovery.com

... orientations, as the solution is non-unique, and I’ll explain that later) and the directions of slip on that fault plane. The beach balls have 4 quadrants...

The Galveston Barrier Island and Environs: A Model for Predicting Reservoir Occurrence and Trend

H. A. Bernard , C. F. Major, Jr. , B. S. Parrott

GCAGS Transactions

... (longshore bars or balls) may be observed in the shallow water immediately off the Gulf beach. Their position, height, and number vary with the wave...

The Galveston Barrier Island and Environs: A Model for Predicting Reservoir Occurrence and Trend

H. A. Bernard, C. F. Major Jr., B. S. Parrott

Wyoming Geological Association

... than one foot per mile. Normally, four breaker bars (longshore bars or balls) may be observed in the shallow water immediately off the Gulf beach...

Recognition and Classification of Marginal Marine Environments

D. N. Miller Jr.

Wyoming Geological Association

... position of a mud beach, showing the vegetal debris in the trashline and the distribution of mud balls and shell fragments of different levels. Mississippi...

The Impact of Beach Sand Mining at Goldsborough Bay, Tobago

S. Bachew and N. Lewis

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

...The Impact of Beach Sand Mining at Goldsborough Bay, Tobago S. Bachew and N. Lewis...

Microseismic Case Study: Monitoring of a Multi Well Completion in the Muskwa & Evie Shale Play in Northeastern British Columbia; #120171 (2014)

Peter Morton, Jane Ling, William Barker, Paige Snelling

Search and Discovery.com

... by stage. Inset on the left are the source mechanism beach balls for this well. Figure 4. Table of total fracture surface area, fracture volume, SRV...

Arisaig Pier: Rocks of the Silurian Aged Bear Brook Volcanic Group

Peter Wallace

Atlantic Geoscience Society Special Publications

... basaltic lava regardless of type has the following characteristics: at the base is a thin layer of clinker balls, spherical to pipe shaped vesicles (some...

Paleoenvironmental and Taphonomic Evidence of Diverse Bioclast Sources and their Implications for the Depositional Settings of Southwestern Louisiana Cheniers

Laurie C. Anderson , Mark R. Byrnes , Randolph A. McBride

GCAGS Transactions

... assemblages, and preservation of the upper-shoreface-derived fauna is very good. The truncated beach-ridge complex at modern Hackberry Beach consists...

Laboratory Experiments on Form and Structure of Longshore Bars and Beaches

Edwin D. McKee , Thomas S. Sterrett

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Increase in intensity of waves tends to build a bar toward, and even onto, the beach. Weaker waves build bars upward to form barriers, with lagoons...

Primary Structures in Some Recent Sediments

Edwin D. McKee

AAPG Bulletin

... Conglomerates," Bull. Geol. Soc. America, Vol. 36, pp. 279-342. BEACH EROSION BOARD, 1938, "Manual of Procedure in Beach Erosion Studies," War Dept...

Origin and Distribution of Bartlesville and Burbank Shoestring Oil Sands in Parts of Oklahoma and Kansas

N. Wood Bass , Constance Leatherock , W. Reese Dillard , Luther E. Kennedy

AAPG Bulletin

... observed by other geologists. Hass (FOOTNOTE 35) described spheroidal and ellipsoidal clay balls on the beach of Lake FOOTNOTE 30. J. C. Branner, "Stone...

Peat Accumulation and Compaction in a Connecticut Coastal Marsh

Arthur L. Bloom

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The Hammock River is entirely estuarine, and drains a group of brackish and salt marshes behind Clinton Beach. Since Colonial times the Hammock River...

Hydrocarbon Trapping in the Halfway Formation (Triassic), Wembley Field, Alberta

Douglas J. Cant

CSPG Bulletin

.... This type of deposit is interpreted as a regressive shelf-to-shoreline sequence, dominated by tide- and wave-influenced beach-barrier deposits...

Memorial: Frank Stephen Parker (1905-1984)

John E. Kilkenny

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... in personnel caused Frank to resign, and he and Cile returned to California. Jobs were hard to get, but after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, Frank found a job...

Automated Measurement of the Nominal Sectional Diameters of Individual Sedimentary Particles: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Jim Mazzullo, Stephen K. Kennedy

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... available on our system by calculating the area in square-pixel units of silica gel balls, the diameters of which were measured manually...