A Carbon-Free Russia: Barriers and Opportunities

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

... with approximately 60% of the country in the vulnerable permafrost zone, this argument is unsustainable. Public support for an ambitious policy of reducing...

Geophysical characterization of stratigraphic traps within the slope failure turbidite channel of Torok formation, north Slope of Alaska

Sagnik Dasgupta, Charles Inyang, Seth Riseman, David Ruckel

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...). The main seismic characterization challenges to identify these reservoirs arise from the presence of permafrost and ice lakes, which restrict...

Early Diagenetic Alteration of Lateritic Particle Coatings in Amazon Continental Shelf Sediment

Peter D. Rude , Robert C. Aller

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) Mg-Fe-Al layer silicates are probably forming by transformation of kaolinite, or other cation stripped material of similar composition, in coatings...

Petrology and Diagenesis of Carbonate Eolianites of Northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

William C. Ward

AAPG Special Volumes

...). Weathered, algal-tinted surfaces are very light to medium gray (N-5, N-6, and N-7). Induration Cementation of the eolianites varies from layer to layer...

Clay Minerals in the Weathering Profile of a Graphitic-Quartz-Muscovite Schist in the Kajang Area, Selangor

J. K. Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... effects of weathering processes; disaggregation and disintegration ofmuscovites and sericites within the original bedrock material initially resulting...

Prominent Lower Cambrian K-Bentonites In South China: Distribution, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry

Mingzhong Zhou, Taiyi Luo, Warren D. Huff, Shirong Liu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... on a standard petrographic glass slide and allowed to dry. The smear method allows the maximum diffraction effects from the preferred orientation of layer...

Effect of Low Formation Temperatures on the Hydrocarbon Composition of Natural Gases and Conditions of Preservation of Their Pools

M. Kh. Sapir, G. D. Ginsburg, V. I. Kislova, R. S. Bogatyrenko

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... that for the northern fields of Siberia, where a thick permafrost is present, the coefficient of dryness of the gas is high, increasing with drop...

The Wedge Model Revisited; #41545 (2015)

Joanna K. Cooper, Don C. Lawton

Search and Discovery.com

... ([email protected]) Abstract Several physical seismic models of simple wedges were built to assess amplitude and tuning effects commonly associated...

In-situ Stresses and Natural Fractures of the Mallik Gas Hydrate Reservoir, Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T., Canada, by Pat McLellan, Kevin Gillen, Chris Podetz, and Scott Dallimore; #90035 (2004)

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Measurement of Water Permeability under the Presence of Methane Hydrate, by Hideki Minagawa, Yukiko Hirakawa, Mitsutaka Sato, Ryo Ohmura, Yasushi Kamata, Satoshi Takeya, Jiro Nagao, Takao Ebinuma, Hideo Narita, Yoshihiro Masuda; #90035 (2004)

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Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and reservoir properties of an unconventional, shallow, frozen petroleum reservoir in the Cretaceous Nanushuk Formation at Umiat field, North Slope, Alaska

Grant T. Shimer, Paul J. McCarthy, Catherine L. Hanks

AAPG Bulletin

... reservoir intervals with oilwater contacts at 450 and 640 ft (173 and 195 m) below sea level, almost entirely within deep permafrost found from 770...

Sedimentary Petrology and Stratigraphic Analysis of the Subsurface Reindeer Formation (Early Tertiary) Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea Area, Canada

F. W. Nentwfch, R. W. Yole

CSPG Special Publications

... shown in Figures 5 and 6 terminate at the intra-Miocene unconformity, but taking into account poor seismic record quality within the permafrost zone...

Kurau: An Example of the Low-Relief Structural Play in the Malacca Strait Psc, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Sunu H. Praptono, Rovicky Dwiputro, Ian M. Longley, Richard W. Ward

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...) peat layer, typically 30 ft in thickness is underlain by weathered clay, typically down to 80 ft but with channels measured down to 170 feet...

AAPG Studies in Geology 47: Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change, Chapter 13 - Coral Reefs and Shoreline Dipsticks

Shinn, E. A.

AAPG Special Volumes

... in polar ice caps, continental ice sheets, permafrost, and giant inland lakes, causing sea temperature and sea level to plummet and climate in general...

Natural Hydrocarbon Seepage in the Gulf of Mexico

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

GCAGS Transactions

... cm of calcilutite followed by another layer of tar 20 cm thick. Numerous cores taken during a cruise aboard the Naval Oceanographic Ship, U.S.N.S....

Preliminary Paleomagnetic Investigation of the Winnfield Salt Dome Cap Rock, Louisiana

Wulf A. Gose , J. Richard Kyle , Mark R. Ulrich

GCAGS Transactions

... occurs in weathered samples hydrating to gypsum and appears to be an alteration product of pyrrhotite. The sulfide concentrations within the Winnfield...

Ekofisk: First of the Giant Oil Fields in Western Europe: DISCUSSION

L. W. Minturn

AAPG Bulletin

... velocity of the weathered layer (1,500 to 2,500 ft/sec). It will carry the case upward with this velocity at the start, tempered by the amount of energy...

A New Type of Reservoir Rock in Volcaniclastic Sequences (1)

LEV VERNIK

AAPG Bulletin

... the effects of pore structure and were studied using the methods of mercury injection and water vapor sorption (Grinberg et al., 1988): sample 1, mixed-layer...

Progress in Laboratory Studies of Gas Hydrate in Porous Media at the Geological Survey of Canada

J. F. Wright, S. R. Dallimore

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Or, 1999, Temperature effects on soil bulk dielectric permittivity measured by time domain reflectometry: Experimental evidence and hypothesis development...

Uplifting mountains and shaking deserts: volcano-tectonic earthquakes revealed by soft-sediment-deformation structures in Upper Cretaceous aeolian deposits

Luciano Alessandretti, Lucas V. Warren, Filipe G. Varejão, Raul Rassi, Maurício G.M. Dos Santos, Mariana N.M. Silva, Fernando R. Honorato, Michele J.T. Estrada, João V.O. Cunha

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... opportunity to investigate the causes and effects of coeval magmatism, aeolian deposition, and deformational processes in the interior of the newly formed...

Numerical Modeling of Adsorption and Roughness Effects on Gas Transport in Shale Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

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Some Thoughts on the Crustal Structure of Peninsular Malaysia„Results of a Gravity Traverse

Patrick J. C. Ryall

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... of the sialic layer (“granite”). The thickness used is probably close to the maximum because increasing the thickness of granite will broaden the effects from...

Processes Controlling the Distribution of Ti and Al in Weathering Profiles, Siliciclastic Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

Grant M. Young, H. Wayne Nesbitt

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... derived from them should have Ti:Al ratios like that of the source materials. Under extreme weathering conditions, however, the upper (most weathered) parts...

The < 2 μm Fraction of Some High Arctic Glacial and Glacial Marine Sediments

Joseph H. Kravitz

CSPG Special Publications

... the valley glaciers of Ellesmere Island. An examination of the < 2 μm fraction of the surficial layer of these sediments shows illite to be the dominant...

The Salt Layer as Important Key to the Pernambuco Plateau Petroleum System, Northeast Brazil, #30613 (2019).

Osvaldo Jose Correia Filho, Bruno Varela Buarque, Jose Anaonio Barbosa, Germano Mario Silva Ramos, Jefferson Tavares Cruz Oliveira, Jose Ricardo Magalhaes, Hewerton Alves Da Silva, Marcio Lima Alencar, Araly Lima De Araujo, Alicione Celestino

Search and Discovery.com

...c layer; 3 - Beginning of deformation of the salt layer caused by rifte faults; 4 Deformation of the salt layer by the effects of overload by the sediment...