In deepwater-reservoir modeling, it is important to properly represent the spatial distribution of architectural elements to account for pore-volume distribution and the connectivity of reservoir sand bodies. This is especially critical for rock and fluid-volume estimates, reservoirperformance predictions, and development-well planning. This new integrated stochastic reservoirmodeling approach ...

Phytoplankton production drives marine ecosystem trophic-structure and global fisheries yields. Phytoplankton biomass is particularly influential near coral reef islands and atolls that span the oligotrophic tropical oceans. The paradoxical enhancement in phytoplankton near an island-reef ecosystem--Island Mass Effect (IME)--was first documented 60 years ago, yet much remains unknown about the ...

Well-constrained case studies of transient landscape response to external forcing are needed to improve our understanding of erosion processes in tectonically active mountain belts. The Peninsular Ranges portion of the San Jacinto fault zone (SJFZ) is an excellent location for such a study because it displays pronounced geomorphic disequilibrium resulting from initiation of a major strike-slip ...

We describe a previously unknown assemblage of seamount-associated megabenthos that has by far the highest peak biomass reported in the deep-sea outside of vent communities. The assemblage was found at depths of 2-2.5 km on rocky geomorphic features off the southeast coast of Australia, in an area near the Sub-Antarctic Zone characterised by high rates of surface productivity and carbon export ...

the sangbast-shandiz fault zone, with a length of about 57 km, a width of moderately 2 km, and a nw-se direction, is located about 15 km in the west of mashhad city. that is one of the major faults in the binalud mountains. geomorphic evidences illustrate that the sangbast-shandiz fault zone has dextral strike- slip offsets with thrust activity. in this article, we investigated geomorphic featu...

The objective of this chapter is to describe some key linkages between the ecology of salmonid fish and the hydrologic and geomorphic features of their spawning streams in British Columbia. Salmonid refers to all species in the Salmonidae family of fishes, which includes Pacific salmon and trout (Oncorhynchus spp.), char (Salvelinus spp.), grayling (Thymallus spp.), whitefish and cisco (Coregon...

Offset geomorphic features along the Superstition Hills fault show evidence for at least one slip event prior to the 1987 surface rupture, and possibly as many as four to five earlier prehistoric earthquakes. We documented several geomorphic features that appeared offset by multiple events by making detailed topographic maps. Offset features were abundant along reaches of the fault with high to...