Hematite and Calcite Coatings on Fossil Vertebrates

Huiming Bao, Paul L. Koch , Robert P. Hepple

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in a marine terrace chronosequence: Soil Science Society of America, Journal, v. 54, p. 147-152. BECKER, R.H., AND CLAYTON, R.N., 1976, Oxygen isotope study...

Bacterial decomposition of avian eggshell: A taphonomic experiment

Denise L. Smith, James L. Hayward

PALAIOS

...) eggshell fragments were collected from the surface of a breeding colony in Washington, sterilized, and buried in sterile soil. The soil surrounding...

Virgilian (Upper Pennsylvanian) Paleosols in the Upper Lawrence Formation (Douglas Group) and in the Snyderville Shale Member (Oread Formation, Shawnee Group) of the Northern Midcontinent, USA: Pedologic Contrasts in a Cyclothem Sequence

R.M. Joeckel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... soil structure, and small iron oxide nodules (upper Lawrence) versus dominantly low-chroma coloration, weak to very weak preserved soil structure...

Fossil Andisols Identified with Mass-Balance Geochemistry (Oligocene John Day Formation, Oregon, U.S.A.)

Erick A. Bestland

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to those produced by modern Andisol soil-forming processes. These andic trends include phosphorus accumulation, potassium retention, and alumina...

Stability of Continental Shelf and Slope off Louisiana and Texas: Geotechnical Aspects: 4. Character of the Sediments

David J. Watkins , Leland M. Kraft Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... continental shelf and upper slope offshore Louisiana and Texas. Possible mechanisms causing instability and soil movement include hurricane waves, various...

Surface Exploration for Oil and Gas: Applications for Field Development and Production

Dietmar "Deet" Schumacher

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...) an increase in key light hydrocarbon ratios in soil gas over oil and gas reservoirs; (3) sharp lateral changes in the concentrations and ratios at the edges...

ABSTRACT Geochemical Detection of Gas Microseepage from CO2 Sequestration, #90103 (2010)

Ronald W. Klusman

Search and Discovery.com

... of soil with gas, temperature anomalies at 10 meters depth, blue-gray haze during winter inversions, saline water seepage, • Microseepage – detection...

Predictions of Oil or Gas Potential by Near-Surface Geochemistry

V. T. Jones , R. J. Drozd

AAPG Bulletin

.... Extensive field work has demonstrated that the chemical compositions of near-surface hydrocarbon soil gases, measured by flame ionization gas chromatography...

Observed Relation of Soil Magnetic Susceptibility and Soil Gas Hydrocarbon Analyses to Subsurface Hydrocarbon Accumulations (1)

DONALD F. SAUNDERS, K. RAY BURSON, and C. KEITH THOMPSON

AAPG Bulletin

...Observed Relation of Soil Magnetic Susceptibility and Soil Gas Hydrocarbon Analyses to Subsurface Hydrocarbon Accumulations (1) DONALD F. SAUNDERS, K...

How to Design Onshore Pipeline Under Coal Seam Area

Yohanes Kristianto, Redo Waworuntu, Muhdi Sujatmiko, Wawan Gunawan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and soil composition study is to provide data necessary to quantify the risk of an underground pipeline surrounded by coal that can spontaneously...

Heavy Residues Of Soils From The Lower Ord River Valley, Western Australia

Dorothy Carroll

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in several types of alluvial soil and one soil derived from the disintegration of sandstones are described, and their value as indicators...

U.S. Scientists Work to Stave off Desertification

Linda Wang

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... hungry and leave their land and must find other places to make a living,” says Jeff Herrick, a soil scientist with the U.S. Agricultural Research...

Abstract: Engineering Geological Investigation on Slope Failure along Bundu Tuhan to Kundasang Road, Sabah, Malaysia

Rodeano Roslee, Sanudin Tahir, Adong Laming

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... failures were studied. This study classified the slope failures into two main groups: soil slope failures and rock slope failures. Failures in soil...

Paleosols in the Upper Guantao Formation (Miocene) of the Gudong Oil Field and Their Application to the Correlation of Fluvial Deposits

Liangmiao Ye

AAPG Bulletin

.... McCracken, 1973, Soil genesis and classification: Ames, Iowa State University Press, 360 p. Chao, Jialing, 1980, Soil Sciences (in Chinese): Beijing...

Can Petroleum be of Pedogenic Origin?

Robert B. Cate, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

...) may involve the catalytic transformation of some of the organic matter to bituminous substances. Somewhat similar materials do occur in soils, and soil...

Earliest Triassic Claystone Breccias and Soil-Erosion Crisis

G.J. Retallack

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Earliest Triassic Claystone Breccias and Soil-Erosion Crisis G.J. Retallack 2005 679 695 Vol. 75 (2005) No. 4. (July) Chemostratigraphic methods...

Clues to the medieval destabilization of the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, from ancient pocket gopher burrows

Rebecca L. Schmeisser, David B. Loope, David A. Wedin

PALAIOS

... during the transition. The gophers were likely surviving on roots remaining in the underlying soil as it was buried by sand; they tunneled .1 m up...

Identification of Geological Formations by Growing Vegetation

A. N. Murray

Tulsa Geological Society

.... 9. Jenny, Hans, "Factors of Soil Formation," McGraw-Hill, New York, 1941. 10. Larkin, H. W., Stevens, R. E., Almond, H. Y., "Field Methods...

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Influences of Modern Pedogenesis On Paleoclimate Estimates from Pennsylvanian and Permian Paleosols, Southeast Ohio, U.S.A.

Sarah J. Kogler, Daniel I. Hembree

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to account for lateral variation. Aslan, A., and Austin, W., 1998, Holocene flood-plain soil formation in the southern lower Mississippi Valley...

Emergency Response Partnership in an Area with Various Industries: a Case Study of Emergency Response Management

Yunan Helmi, Priyasmoro K. Yudasakti, Zahran Zulfikar, Donne Susanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is dominated mainly by peat soil that during dry season is prone to wildfire, some of which are caused by illegal land clearing or farming. The emergency...

X-ray Identification of Clay Materials in Thin Sections: METHOD PAPER

M. J. Wilson, D. R. Clark

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in petrographic and soil thin-sections. CARRIGY, M. A., AND G. B. MELLON, 1964, Authigenic clay mineral cements in Cretaceous and Tertiary sandstones of Alberta...

Reynosa Problem of South Texas, and Origin of Caliche

W. Armstrong Price

AAPG Special Volumes

... of soil-mineral accumulations, including calcareous, siliceous, ferruginous, aluminous and nitrogenous varieties in young, mature, and aged stages...

Combined Geological and Surface Geochemical Methods Discovered Agaritta and Brady Creek Fields, Concho County, Texas

D. F. Saunders , K. R. Burson , J. J. Brown , C. K. Thompson

AAPG Bulletin

... sensing, surface radiometrics, soil magnetic susceptibility, and soil-gas hydrocarbon measurements to define prospects. Six new King sand discoveries...

Underground Storage Tanks

Eric Eslinger, Uriel Oko, Jacqueline A. Smith, G. H. Holliday

Special Publications of SEPM

... in the soil (water from either the saturated or unsaturated zone) and conductivity @.e.,salinity) of the groundwater. Corrosion occurs because of electrical...