Effect of Artificial Sea-Grass on Wave Energy and Near-Shore Sand Transport

Christopher J. Wayne

GCAGS Transactions

... by the sea-grass beds. In turn, the mean longshore current and longshore component of wave power are reduced. Total wave power and incident angle to the beach...

Relative Quantities of Suspension Versus Bed-Load Transport on Beaches

Paul D. Komar

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Jersey, and Nags Head, North Carolina: U.S. Army Coastal Engr. Research Center, Tech. Paper No. 77-5, 97 p. GALVIN, C. J., 1973, A gross longshore...

Abstract: Shear Wave Splitting Parameter Estimation Using a Regular Distribution of Azimuths; #90187 (2014)

A. Stanton and M. D. Sacchi

Search and Discovery.com

... parameters. Introduction In the presence of Horizontal Transverse Isotropy (HTI) converted waves are split into fast and slow waves which...

Depositional Structures and Processes in the Non-barred High-energy Nearshore

H. Edward Clifton, Ralph E. Hunter, R. Lawrence Phillips

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the wave form is either solitary or that of a bore. Within the nearshore, shoaling waves become progressively higher and steeper until they break. After...

Challenging preconceptions in complex carbonate imaging: Using shear waves and electromagnetic data for improved subsurface understanding

Riaz Alai, Ahmad Riza Ghazali, Lucy MacGregor, Faizan Akasyah Ghazali, Edysuzaily Kamarudin, Aidel Haikal Azmi, Garry Malo-Paul, Sandeep Kumar, Brendon Negenman, Oscar Augusto Barrios, Ge Zhan, Mitch Preston

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Challenging preconceptions in complex carbonate imaging: Using shear waves and electromagnetic data for improved subsurface understanding Riaz Alai...

Research and application of shallow surface wave prediction attenuation in dual complex mountainous exploration areas

Xinyue Song, Zaijin Zhang, Yi Bao, Cheng Wang, Zhonghua Zhao, Yangyang Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of shallow seismic data is crucial for subsequent velocity modeling and target layer imaging. So suppressing shallow waves is an extremely important means...

Deep learning-based Vz-noise attenuation for OBS data

Jing Sun, Arash Jafargandomi, Julian Holden

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... advantages of the multi-component oceanbottom seismic data is the separation of up- and down-going waves by combining pressure and vertical geophone...

3D-9C seismic survey for direct S-wave processing and interpretation

Rui Zhang, Zhiwen Deng, Yuanyuan Yue, Yan Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., which splits the incident S-wave into fast (S1) and slow (S2) S-waves. To obtain the reliable split Swave images from 3D-9C datasets, three kinds...

Suggestions of a New Method of Making Underground Observations

J. A. Udden

AAPG Bulletin

... with any considerable certainty. Exposures of the Bend indicate also that there are horizontal changes in this formation. For those who use drillers' logs...

Upwelling, Thermoclines and Wave-Sweeping on an Equatorial Carbonate Ramp: Lower Carboniferous Strata of Western Canada

Richard T. Brandley, Federico F. Krause

Special Publications of SEPM

... Calgary Alberta Canada T2N IN4 Head Livingstone and Turner Valley Formations of southwest Canada accumulated on a westward of Pangea The ramp developed...

Surge Propagation in Debris Flows; #51540 (2018)

Paul Allen, Oliver Harlen, Robert Dorrell, Robert Thomas, William McCaffrey

Search and Discovery.com

.... Three of these - erosion, mixing at the head and wave instability, are observed in the experiments. We assess the relative transformation efficiency...

Converted Shear-Wave Seismic Fracture Characterization Analysis at Pinedale Field, Wyoming; #110024 (2005)

James E. Gaiser and Richard R. Van Dok

Search and Discovery.com

...) waves convert to upgoing shear (S) waves at interfaces provide a practical means for analyzing fracture properties. This is particularly important...

Expanding Imaging Areas Using Transmitted Waves and Multiples in VSP Data

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Physical Oceanographic Influences On Sedimentology of Reef Sand Aprons: Holocene of Aranuka Atoll (Kiribati), Equatorial Pacific

Hannah N. Wasserman,, Eugene C. Rankey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-propagating waves related to fronts that pass thousands of kilometers north of the atoll, not local, wind-generated waves. These hydrodynamical influences...

Multicomponent Seismic Studies of the Gas-hydrate System at the Storegga Slide

Stefan Bunz, Jurgen Mienert, Karin Andreassen

AAPG Special Volumes

... four-component sensing systems on the sea floor to record the full vector wavefield of passing stress waves. In essence, that means recording both...

Experimental Investigations of Combined Flow Sediment Transport

Everett Smith, Max S. Daniller-Varghese, Paul M. Myrow, David Mohrig

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and the resulting complex flows are key mechanisms for offshore sediment transport. Our laboratory experiments illustrate how surface waves alter sediment...

Sole marks reveal deep-marine depositional process and environment: Implications for flow transformation and hybrid-event-bed models

Jaco H. Baas, Niall D. Tracey,, Jeff Peakall

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., representing the fastest moving part of the bedload component closest to the head of the flow. As the flow further increases in cohesivity, buoyant forces...

Marine Production Systems with Vertical Flexible Risers

J. G. de Oliveria, A. W. Morton

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... as 2.8MM barrels of recoverable oil can economically be produced. This paper discusses each major component of the system, starting from the bottom...

Oceanography of Mississippi Delta Sedimentary Environments

P. C. Scruton

AAPG Bulletin

... to the horizontal component of End_Page 2917------------------------------ motion of water particles associated with passage of the wave. In moderately shallow...

Log Resistivity Measuring Devices Compared to S-waves from a Vertical-Force Source, #41377 (2014)

John M. Robinson

Search and Discovery.com

...Log Resistivity Measuring Devices Compared to S-waves from a Vertical-Force Source, #41377 (2014) John M. Robinson Log Resistivity Measuring Devices...

A Quick, Inexpensive, Self-contained Sediment Coring System for Use Underwater: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Brian Jones, Kenton F. Phimester, Ian G. Hunter, Paul Blanchon

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... on the Cayman Islands. Real sizes must be determined before the coring-head is made. 5) Coring-head. This component is the connection between the airchisel...

3-D Finite Difference Modeling of Microseismic Source Mechanisms in the Wolfcamp Shale of the Permian Basin

Robert Meek, Robert A. Hull, Austin Von der Hoya, David Eaton

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The tensile opening mechanism creates a wave field that is more easily picked on the horizontal component. The S-wave is much higher frequency than...

Origin of Parallel, Near-Horizontal Laminae by Migration of Bed Forms in a Small Flume

E. F. McBride, R. G. Shepherd, R. A. Crawley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Origin of Parallel, Near-Horizontal Laminae by Migration of Bed Forms in a Small Flume E. F. McBride, R. G. Shepherd, R. A. Crawley 1975 Vol. 45...

Bed Configurations

Gerard Middleton, John B. Southard

Special Publications of SEPM

... and are therefore often likened to They are not waves in the dynamic sense, as water waves or waves. sound waves are, although you'll see that they have certain...

Response of the Shelf Floor to Flow

Donald J. P. Swift

Special Publications of SEPM

.... The horizontal momemtum gradient, from high-speed water over the gravel to low-speed water over sand, drove a secondary component of circulation...