Topographic and Vegetative Controls on Calcrete Formation, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies

Victor Rossinsky Jr., Harold R. Wanless

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., 1979, Atmospheric turbidity in Saharan dust outbreaks as determined by analyses of satellite brightness data: Monthly Weather Review, v. 107, p. 322-335...

Evidence for a Tidally Influenced Upper Carboniferous Ombrogenous Mire System: Upper Bench, Beckley Bed (Westphalian A), Southern West Virginia

James R. Staub, Joan S. Esterle

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... brightness of the coal and the presence or absence of banding. When compared with the classification of Stopes (1919), bright coal is equivalent...

Biological Forcing of Hemipelagic Sedimentary Laminae: Evidence from ODP Site 893, Santa Barbara Basin, California

Kurt A. Grimm , Carina B. Lange , Amarpal S. Gill

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... evident in X-radiographs of core slabs, in smear slides, and in electron micrographs (Figs. 5-7). The brightness of objects in backscattered electron...

Experimental Test of Tectonic Controls on Three-Dimensional Alluvial Facies Architecture

Thomas A. Hickson, Ben A. Sheets, Chris Paola, Michael Kelberer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... brightness values from a point on these images to the entire 2-cm-wide (in a flow-parallel sense) zone between slices. This, in concert with variation...

Low-Porosity Haloes at Stylolites in the Feldspathic Upper Jurassic Ula Sandstone, Norwegian North Sea: An Integrated Petrographic and Chemical Mass-Balance Approach

Nicholas B. Harris

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Walderhaug, O., and Murphy, W.M., 1998, Porosity prediction in quartzose sandstones as a function of time, temperature, depth, stylolite frequency...

Inside-Out Dolomite

Brian Jones

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... genesis is known or can be reasonably inferred, (2) the temperature of dolomitization is constrained to a narrow range of near-surface values, (3...

Cement Stratigraphy of Pennsylvanian Holder Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

Robert H. Goldstein

AAPG Bulletin

... fluctuated over tens of meters. Cement-stratigraphy studies indicate abundant calcite precipitation from low-temperature fresh water within shelf, shelf-crest...

Sedimentary Features of the South Texas Continental Slope as Revealed by Side-Scan Sonar and High-Resolution Seismic Data (1)

R. G. ROTHWELL , N. H. KENYON , and B. A. MCGREGOR

AAPG Bulletin

... of intermediate brightness on the GLORIA sonographs and covers a large area of the middle slope south of 26 degrees 40'N. This part of the middle slope...

Sequence stratigraphic responses to shoreline-perpendicular growth faulting in shallow marine reservoirs of the Champion field, offshore Brunei Darussalam, South China Sea

D. Hodgetts, J. Imber, C. Childs, S. Flint, J. Howell, J. Kavanagh, P. Nell, J. Walsh

AAPG Bulletin

... brightness positive and negative acoustic impedance, which result in a distinctive fuzzy seismic facies (Figures 5, 6). The tidal units (Figures 4, 6) can...

Late opening-mode fractures in karst-brecciated dolostones of the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group, west Texas: Recognition, characterization, and implications for fluid flow

Julia F. W. Gale, Leonel A. Gomez

AAPG Bulletin

... of the sample, and brightness in element maps is proportional to concentration, brighter areas being more concentrated. (a) Secondary electron image...

Grain assemblages and strong diagenetic overprinting in siliceous mudrocks, Barnett Shale (Mississippian), Fort Worth Basin, Texas

Kitty L. Milliken, William L. Esch, Robert M. Reed, Tongwei Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

...: Implications for stabilization of mature kerogen maturation after a geologically brief heating duration at peak temperature, in L. Magoon, ed., Petroleum...

Accommodation-based coal cycles and significant surface correlation of low-accommodation Lower Cretaceous coal seams, Lloydminster heavy oil field, Alberta, Canada: Implications for coal quality distribution

Gareth R. L. Chalmers, Ron Boyd, Claus F. K. Diessel

AAPG Bulletin

.... Core logging involved both the textural analysis of inorganic sediments and the brightness logging of organic sediments. A total of 6 m (20 ft...

Characterizing maturity of reservoir pyrobitumen with strong anisotropy: A calibration between reflectance and laser Raman spectral parameters

Zhaoxi Zuo, Jian Cao, Xiaolin Wang, Bing Luo, Yuan Zhong, Kunyu Li, and Kai Hu

AAPG Bulletin

..., and reached a maximum depth of greater than 6000 m at the end of the Cretaceous. The temperature of the second and fourth members of the Dengying...

Organic petrology of the Upper Ordovician Red River kukersite tight oil and gas play, Williston Basin, North Dakota, United States

Wayne K. Camp, Juergen Schieber, Maria Mastalerz, and Timothy O. Nesheim

AAPG Bulletin

... et al., 2018). Nesheim (2017) used a combination of Rock-Eval pyrolysis parameters (maximum temperature [Tmax], hydrogen index, and production index...

The Sun / Earth Climate System: A Geoscience Perspective, by Arthur R. Green, #70014 (2005).

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Early diagenetic controls on color variation in Eocene red beds: a case study from the Gercus Formation, Zagros Basin, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Salahadin Shahrokhi, Ondřej Bábek, Howri Mansurbeg, Branimir Šegvić, Juan Diego Martín-Martín, Jaroslav Kapusta, Filip Gregar, Michal Kořenek

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM...

Compensational Stacking of Channelized Sedimentary Deposits

Kyle M. Straub, Chris Paola, David Mohrig, Matthew A. Wolinsky, Terra George

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... represented by brightness. B) Synthetic stratigraphy generated through stacked delta-top profiles with topography clipped to account for sediment...

Cave Pearls—The Integrated Product of Abiogenic and Biogenic Processes

Brian Jones

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...: Grondboor en Hamer, v. 4, p. 106–109. Defarge, C., Trichet, J., Maurin, A., and Hucher, M., 1994, Kopara in Polynesian atolls: early stages...

Leaf Biomass - A New Paradigm for Sourcing the Terrestrial Oils of Taranaki Basin

R. Sykes, L. R. Snowdon, P. E. Johansen

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...-compacted, megascopic plant parts comprising mainly wood. The vitrain is generally indistinct at the megascopic scale because of the general brightness...

Impact of Seasonal Changes on the Formation and Accumulation of Soft Siliceous Sediments on the Discharge Apron of Geysir, Iceland

Brian Jones, Robin W. Renaut

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and the deposition and morphology of high temperature (> 73°C) siliceous sinter, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research...

Dolomitization of supratidal to shallow-marine carbonates in the Pennsylvanian successions of the Wyoming Shelf

Sébastien Blanchard, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher R. Fielding

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... captured using a constant exposure time to allow direct comparison between luminescence in different samples, although brightness was increased for (E...

Critical diagenetic features controlling intergranular flow paths and matrix permeability in the Codell Sandstone, northeastern Colorado

Daniel Alonso Medina, David A. Budd

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., F.J., 1994, Authigenic chlorites in sandstones as indicators of high-temperature diagenesis, Arkoma foreland basin, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research...

Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Modern Carbonate Sand Bodies From Great Bahama Bank

Paul M. Mitch Harris, Samuel J. Purkis, James Ellis

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... elevation models (DEMs) of Figure 1. The brightness and water-depth relationships are only an approximation for TOTO and Schooners because...

Stalactite Growth Mediated by Biofilms: Example from Nani Cave, Cayman Brac, British West Indies

Brian Jones

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...© was used to adjust the brightness and contrast of the digital-field, thin-section, and SEM images. Biofilm and Microbes The microbes include...

Depositional and diagenetic variability within the Cambrian Mount Simon Sandstone: Implications for carbon dioxide sequestration

Brenda B. Bowen, Raul I. Ochoa, Nathan D. Wilkens, James Brophy, Thomas R. Lovell, Nick Fischietto, Cristian R. Medina, John A. Rupp

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

..., depending on the pressure and temperature of the formation water and the abundance of mineral buffers, such as calcite and aluminosilicates (Parry et...