Measurements of ratios of stable isotopes are used in such diverse fields as petroleum prospecting, medical diagnostics, and planetary exploration. The narrow emission linewidth available from tunable diode lasers permits high-resolution infrared absorption measurements of closely spaced isotopic rovibrational lines. Our dual beam spectrometer uses the sweep integration technique in a spectral ...

The utilization of electrical techniques in oil and gas exploration has always been a subject of great interest to geophysicists, largely because of the hope that the application of such techniques would eventually lead to the direct detection of hydrocarbons through their insulating properties. However, 60 years of constant and at times frenzied debate over direct detection has failed to produ...

In this paper we propose an integrated approach to diagnostic prospecting applied to the cathedral of Matera, in Southern Italy. In particular, we have performed both an ultrasonic tomography and a high frequency GPR prospecting on some pillars of the Church to investigate about possible structural yielding and a GPR prospecting at lower frequencies on the floor, where also a linear inversion a...

1 Department of Construction and Manufacture Engineering, Polytechnic School of Mieres, University of Oviedo, Mieres, 33600 Asturias, Spain 2Department of Exploitation and Prospecting Mines, Mining Engineering School, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33004 Asturias, Spain 3 Department of Exploitation Mines, Polytechnic University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain 4Department of Exploitation and Prosp...

The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 has created new categories rights to “minerals” that may be granted applicants by the Minister Minerals Energy. In this article nature these will examined. legislature labelled prospecting mining minerals as limited real in MPRD Act. remaining are not labelled. Provision is made for registration or recording revived Mining Titles Re...

The integral thermo-atmogeochemical structural investigations (TAGSI) have been carried out at the continental slope of Western Black Sea Depression for first time. technique TAGSI as non-traditional and cost-effective exploration technology is originally developed Institute Geological Sciences. It consists phased geo-structural researches analysis fault tectonics, morphological neotectonic int...

Personality can play a large role in dispersal decisions, influencing how each individual estimates and values expected costs versus benefits of venturing out to explore the unknown. We contrast the impact of persistence on fitness using decision theory models to examine the relative success of prospecting movement (which is a widespread behavior used by animals to explore available breeding ha...