Grigorenko YN, Chilingar GV, Sobolev VS, Andiyeva TA, and Zhukova LI: Petroleum Accumulation Zones on Continental Margins

Statistical Characterization of Bathymetry and Stratigraphy on Continental Margins

A "realistic" interpolation or extrapolation of bathymetry, i.e., one that honors both the statistical character and the deterministic constraints of the data, is referred to as a "conditional simulation." The first step in generating a conditional simulation is derivation of a statistical model for bathymetry. We typically employ the anisotropic von Kármán model (Goff and Jordan, 1988), which ...

Seebeck coefficient measurements on Li, Sn, Ta, Mo, and W

The thermopower of W, Mo, Ta, Li and Sn has been measured relative to stainless steel, and the Seebeck coefficient of each of these materials has then been calculated. These are materials that are currently relevant to fusion research and form the backbone for different possibl e liquid limiter concepts includ ing TEMHD concepts such as LiMIT. For molybdenum the Seebeck coefficient has a linear...

Global distribution of naturally occurring marine hypoxia on continental margins

Hypoxia in the ocean influences biogeochemical cycling of elements, the distribution of marine species and the economic well being of many coastal countries. Previous delineations of hypoxic environments focus on those in enclosed seas where hypoxia may be exacerbated by anthropogenically induced eutrophication. Permanently hypoxic water masses in the open ocean, referred to as oxygen minimum z...

Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Continental Convergent Margins

Transience and Persistence in the Depositional Record of Continental Margins

Continental shelves and coastal plains are large persistent depositional landforms, which are stationary (nonmigrating) at their proximal ends and characterized by relatively steady long-term growth. In detail, however, their surface form and stratigraphic record is built of transient freely migrating landscape elements. We derive the timescales of crossover from transient to persistent topogra...