The study of oxidation-reduction processes in soils began in the 1900’s (Gillespie, 1920) and has since been applied to biological, limnological, and geochemical systems (Bass Becking, 1960). Early petroleum related studies concerned the redox characteristics of sediments, the preservation of organic material, and the ultimate generation of petroleum (Zobell, 1946, Krumbein and Garrels, 1952). ...

The inexpensive geochemical exploration technique based on broadspaced deflation lag sampling played a key role in the discovery of the Babel and Nebo ortho-magmatic Ni–Cu–platinum group elements (PGE) deposits. An area of 1100 km in the western Musgrave Block in central Australia was explored using deflation lag samples collected on a 1 km 0.5 km grid. A total of 35 elements were determined us...

Magnetic data is useful in both hydrocarbon exploration and mining exploration. In hydrocarbon exploration, aeromagnetic data is an effective method for locating strike-slip faulting in magnetic basement. Also, high resolution surveys enhance delineation of both subtle basement features and intrasedimentary sources. In fact, magnetic methods has evolved from its sole use for mapping basement st...

Multicomponent contaminant transport models in groundwater are typically based on assumptions of local geochemical equilibrium on the grid scale. In heterogenous systems there may be significant coupling between transport processes and geochemical equilibrium at smaller than grid block scale. When these processes are upscaled to grid scale, geochemical evolution may take on a kinetic character....

Mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM) based on the principle of geometric mean was applied to stream sediment geochemical, fault density, and aeromagnetic data from Tagmout basin, Morocco determine new areas for optimizing copper exploration. The application a fuzzy operator using data, factor analysis, density map, allowed weights be assigned these parameters so that MPM function can process the...

In recent years, important breakthroughs have been made in the exploration of northwestern margin Mahu sag Junggar basin. The estimated amount oil deposits this region seems to be as large 100-million-ton lithologic reservoir. A certain scale reservoirs was found Jurassic Badaowan formation, which indicates that reservoir has promising prospects for exploration. geochemical characteristics crud...

Deep-seated mineralization prediction is an important scientific problem in the area of mineral resources exploration. The 3D metallogenic information extraction geology and geochemistry can be great help. This study uses modeling technology to intuitively depict spatial distribution orebodies, fractures, intrusive rocks. In particular, geochemical models 12 elements are established for extract...

The geochemical discriminate diagrams help to distinguish the volcanics recovered from different tectonic settings but these diagrams tend to group the ocean floor basalts (OFB) under one class i.e., as mid-oceanic ridge basalts (MORB). Hence, a method is specifically needed to identify the OFB as normal (N-MORB), enriched (E-MORB) and ocean island basalts (OIB). We have applied Artificial Neur...

Economic rare earth element bearing-heavy mineral accommodation in alluvial deposits (stream sediments) is a well-known process caused by varying rates of weathering and transportation heavy minerals sediments, which significant geochemical exploration. In the present work, stream sediment samples from Wadi Lethi, Sharm El-Sheikh, were systematically collected. The collected sediments investiga...

Understanding human behavior in the context of exploration and navigation is an important but challenging problem. Such understanding can help in the design of safe structures and spaces that implicitly aid humans during evacuation or other emergency situations. In particular, the role that memory plays in this process is something that is crucial to understand. In this paper, we develop a nove...