Browsing by Department "Geology and Geophysics"
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(2021-12-08)Vadose zone well (VZW) injection is an effective method utilized in managed aquifer recharge and it plays an important role in semi-arid and arid regions. Accurately prediction of the recharge of VZW injection is still a ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This dissertation is composed of three parts of major contributions. In Chapter II, we discuss analytical study of contaminant transport from a finite source in a finite-thickness aquifer. This chapter provides analytical ...
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(2013-09-25)The porosity in rock can be quantified and characterized using a variety of direct methods including imbibition methods, mercury injection, gas expansion, petrography, X-ray tomography, and image analysis. However many of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Connectivity is considered one of the fundamental aspects that influences the rate of mass movement in the landscape. The connectivity aspect has been acknowledged from various conceptual geomorphic frameworks. None of ...
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(2023-08-10)In the digital age, leveraging the enormous amounts of data available is critical to understanding the petroleum system. One example is chemometric analysis (the application of multivariate statistics to the analysis of ...
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(2019-11-06)Hydraulic fracturing allows improved hydrocarbon production in low permeability formations. Imaging the distribution of fluid used to create a hydraulic fracture can aid in the characterization of fracture properties such ...
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(2017-07-14)Mantle processes (e.g., melting and deformation) are controlled, in part, by the availability of H₂O. Therefore, determining values of the activity of H₂O (aH₂O) will yield a better understanding of these complex mantle ...
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(2014-05-05)Shatsky Rise, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean, is one of the largest oceanic plateaus. The origin and evolution of the oceanic plateaus are unclear because these features are remote and poorly imaged with geophysical ...
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(2018-10-24)Numerical methods for the simulation of wave propagation have extensive applications in exploration seismology as in velocity estimation and subsurface imaging. Among numerical methods, the standard finite element method ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The use of neural networks in the field of development geology is in its infancy. In this study, a neural network will be used to identify flow units in Happy Spraberry Field, Garza County, Texas. A flow unit is the ...
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(2017-06-26)This thesis utilized the method of ground penetrating radar to investigate the structural geology of carbonate units in relation to the evolution of the island of Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands. Two surveys were completed ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Bahia Grande is a large lagoon located within Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Cameron County, Texas. When the Brownsville Ship Channel was built along the southern end of the lagoon in 1936, Bahia Grande was ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This dissertation is composed of three parts of major contributions: In Chapter II, we developed a new conceptual model and derived a new semi-analytical model for flow to a horizontal well beneath a water reservoir. Instead ...
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(2018-08-03)Focus of this dissertation was to employ seismic geomorphology in the subsurface of the Browse Basin (Australia) and digital outcrop modeling in the Last Chance Canyon (New Mexico) outcrops to develop new analytical ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This study maps the facies architecture and geometry of stratigraphic surfaces within the tide-influenced upper Sego Sandstone exposed in the Book Cliffs between Crescent Junction and Thompson Springs, Utah. A bedding ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The toxicity and adverse health effects of arsenic are widely known. It is generally accepted that sorption/desorption reactions with oxy-hydroxide minerals (iron, manganese) control the fate and transport of inorganic ...
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(2020-08-05)Pennsylvanian coal balls are concretions of permineralized peat that contain a rich fossil record of plant-animal interactions. Cordaitean leaf-mat coal balls from the Cliffland and Blackoak coal beds (Kalo Formation, Iowa) ...
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(2016-06-02)The Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford Group was deposited within the Southern Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (KWIS) and records the onset and duration of the Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2). Lozier Canyon in Val Verde ...
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(2010-01-16)Quantifying the influence of pressure on the effective elastic rock properties is important for applications in rock physics and reservoir characterization. Here I investigate the relationship between effective pressure ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)In the Permian Basin, strata of Leonardian age typically consist of interbedded carbonates and siliciclastics interpreted to be turbidite deposits. Happy Spraberry Field produces from a 100-foot thick carbonate section in ...