New Hugoniot and release adiabat data for 1.8 g/cm3 lunar fines (sample, 70051) in the N 2 to 70 kbar range demonstrate that upon shock compression intrinsic crystal density (. 3.1 g/cm3) is achieved under shock stress of 15 to 20 kbar. Release adiabat determinatioc;s indicate that measurable irreversible compaction occurs upon achieving shock pressures above . k kbar. For shocks in the r y 7 t...

Over the last two decades, several advances have been made in the development and application of slim-hole geophysical sondes for use in groundwater, engineering, and environmental applications. This equipment is commonly used to provide qualitative (but detailed) estimates of grain size, sediment type, porosity, density, pore-water salinity, as well as bulk and shear moduli, to supplement geol...

A number of observations indicate that an upper stability transition occurs along well-developed faults, such as the San Andreas, as a result of unconsolidated gouge within shallow regions of these faults. These observations include the depth distribution of seismicity along faults with and without well-developed gouge zones, correlations between seismicity and shallow crustal structure, and mo...

Introduction: Careful characterization of terrestrial concretions and Mars “blueberries” yields important criteria for distinguishing their diagenetic origin in comparison to other models for small, spherical forms. The Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (GSENM), southern Utah, contains many hydrous ferric oxide mineralization geometries (HFO phases inc...

The Upper Cretaceous Lokoja Formation of southern Niger Basin in Nigeria is a dominantly sandy facies comprising of two distinctive members, the Lokoja and Patti Siltstone. The fluvial sandstone of the Lokoja Sandstone is petrologically defined as dominantly poorly sorted angular to sub-angular, fine to aly skewed, immature lithic arkose to sub-litharenite with a detrital clayey matrix of over ...

Tonglu rhythmites (Upper Ordovician) in Zhejiang Province, east-central China, display three orders of cyclicity in sandstone and mudstone layer thickness. Millimeter-thick alternations of sandstone and mudstone laminae are ascribed to single tidal cycles. Centimeter-thick alternations of sand-dominated layers (SDLs) and muddominated layers (MDLs) are interpreted to be related to alternation of...

Tidal sandstone reservoirs contain significant intervals of hydrocarbonbearing heterolithic facies, characterized by the presence of tidegenerated sedimentary structures such as flaser, wavy, and lenticular bedding (millimeter to centimeter sand-mud alternations). We have characterized the reservoir properties (sandstone connectivity, effective permeability, and displacement efficiency) of thes...

Mesozoic strata in the Cowhole Mountains, eastern Mojave block California, include 200–800 m of eolian quartz arenite (Aztec Sandstone) overlain by more than 575 m of silicic ignimbrites, lava flows, and minor sedimentary rocks (Cowhole volcanics). U-Pb zircon geochronologic data on a crystal-rich dacite lava flow in the Aztec Sandstone indicate that the sandstone is Middle Jurassic and is ther...

We report on an investigation concerning the utilization of morphological information obtained from a two-dimensional ~2D! slice ~thin section! of a random medium to reconstruct the full three-dimensional ~3D! medium. We apply a procedure that we developed in an earlier paper that incorporates any set of statistical correlation functions to reconstruct a Fontainebleau sandstone in three dimensi...