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Seismic attribute analyses of lower Permian (Wolfcampian-Leonardian) carbonate buildups, SW Midland, Texas
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
A trend of Wolfcampian-Leonardian carbonate buildups is located in the southwestern Midland Basin, Upton County, Texas. The buildup trend is located east of the eastern faulted margin of the Central Basin Platform and north ...
Competitive sorption of pyrene and pyridine to natural clay minerals and reference clay standards
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Sorption processes are known to be the controlling factors in mobility of organic contaminants in soils and sediments. It has been generally assumed that the organic matter fraction is the dominant sorbent of organic ...
Controlling factors on the development and evolution of carbonate platforms: isostatic basement response to water-sediment loading
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
The purpose of this study is to accurately use sensitivity analysis on input parameters so a set of numerical simulations will geologically show the relative effects of isostatically compensated water-sediment loads on ...
Timing and Tectonic implications of basin inversion in the Nam Con Son Basin and adjacent areas, southern South China Sea
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
The Nam Con Son (NCS) Basin, located offshore of SE Vietnam, is one of several Tertiary rift basins that formed during initial Eocene(?)-Oligocene rifting. Following cessation of rifting at the end of Oligocene time, these ...
Effects of burial history, rock ductility and recovery magnitude on inversion of normal faulted strata
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Inversion of normal faults at different burial depths is studied using physical models constructed with rock and deformed at confining pressure. Models consist of a 1 cm thick limestone layer above a fault dipping 70° in ...
Paleogene cooling (55-30 MA) as inferred from oxygen isotope variation within mollusc shells
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Paleogene cooling (c. 50-30 Ma) started sometime in the early-middle Eocene. This was a time when high-latitude and deep-sea temperatures were significantly warmer than today. This cooling culminated during the earliest ...
The effects of lithology and initial fault angle in physical models of fault-propagation folds
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Experimentally deformed physical rock models are used to examine the effects of changing mechanical stratigraphy and initial fault angle on the development of fault-propagation folds over a flat-ramp-flat thrust geometry. ...
Using fluid buffering equilibria to determine values of H₂O activity: an example from the amphibole-bearing spinel lherzolites of Caussou, French Pyrenees
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Samples were collected from the Caussou peridotite in the French Pyrenees. This peridotite represents a portion of the Earth's upper mantle. These samples contain the minerals olivine, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, and ...
The sedimentological and geotechnical characteristics of the lower continental slope and rise of the Mississippi Fan fold belt
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
The study is based on geological and geotechnical laboratory testing data of 70 three inch diameter piston cores. Concentration is along the Sigsbee Escarpment in a grid area between 90⁰ and 91⁰W and 26.7⁰ and 27.3⁰N. Water ...
Characterization and origins of high-amplitude reflection packets, HARPs, along the Gulf of Mexico depositional profile
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
High amplitude reflection packets (HARPs) refer to sheet-like sand deposits, showing high-amplitude seismic-reflection character, which are thought to be associated with constructional channel systems. Based on observations ...