Heavy oil is an important unconventional resource with huge availability worldwide, which also forms the primary source in Fengcheng oilfield, XinJiang, China. The elastic properties and consolidation status of heavy sands are significant values as they can provide guidance for reservoir exploration production. However, due to lack detailed rock physics investigation knowledge about their micro...

Kurek et al. (1) provide a valuable contribution concerning oil sands development. The authors should also be congratulated for not drawing irresponsible inferences about human cancer risks from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and for accurately reporting substantially lower PAH contamination of sediments for their study lakes vs. popular Alberta recreational lakes:Wabamun, Pigeon, and ...

What connects the sci-fi book Dune with coastal dunes and geoengineering? The answer lies in humans their world-making activities. This paper proposes an innovative approach to as hybrid environments by analyzing stabilization programs developed on US Pacific Coast. It looks into shifting sands of Oregon coast how they influenced Frank Herbert write his novel, why local communities federal auth...

The Murray Basin in southeastern Australia is an intracratonic sedimentary basin of Cainozoic age that extends across 300 000 square kilometres of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The upper sequences, principally the Loxton–Parilla Sands, Calivil Formation and Shepparton Formation, contain economic accumulations of heavy mineral sands; bentonite; kaolin; and gypsum. Mineral sands ...

The purpose of the work is to establish ecological situation in pasture phytocomplexes Don basin. objects research were plant communities on floodplain sod-meadow granular soils and sands Ilovlinsky massif Volgograd region. occurrence species Drude scale, vital state plants, projective cover vegetation, feed mass consumed determined. It established that main vegetation oppressed or a satisfacto...

Introduction: The Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) instrument aboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been used to acquire thousands of spectra from the surface of Merid-iani Planum [1]. The Mini-TES measures thermal in-frared energy at a similar spectral resolution and range to that of the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) aboard the Mars Global Surveyor orbiting ...

The Role of Irradiation: Irradiation is widely invoked as a mechanism by which simple carbonbearing molecules may be polymerised or otherwise reacted to form progressively more complex molecules that could ultimately synthesize life [1]. In our solar system, cosmic irradiation has been invoked as a source of complex molecules on the Galilean satellites, and on Titan, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune. ...