Northern Song Hong Tertiary Sedimentary basin is a classic case study of pull-apart in southeast Asia, whose formation was controlled by the India-Eurasia collision, sinistral and dextral strike-slip motion Ailao Shan-Red River Shear Zone Opening East Vietnam Sea during Cenozoic. Unlike central southern parts basin, northern Basin experienced very strong inversion Late Miocene. This rapid uplif...

This paper presents new valuable field data and a comprehensive approach to the determination of the rock mass classification and tunnel support systems for tunnels in unconsolidated sedimentary rocks as a special soil condition. The main objective of this study is to investigate and present the characteristics of the unconsolidated sedimentary rock by using the point load tests and slake durab...

With the development of computer science, communications technology and environmental modeling, virtual geographic environments (VGEs) have been linked with field observations and geographic modeling. VGEs enable researchers in various fields to collaboratively perform computer-aided geographic experiments. This study proposes a collaborative environment to conduct a virtual flood experiment th...

VGE geographic knowledge refers to the abstract and repeatable geo-information which is related to the geo-science problem, geographical phenomena and geographical laws supported by VGE. That includes expert experiences, evolution rule, simulation processes and prediction results in VGE. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for VGE knowledge engineering in order to effectively manage and ...

Dinoflagellates constitute a large proportion of the planktonic biomass from marine to freshwater environments. Some species produce a preservable organic-walled resting cyst (dinocyst) during the sexual phase of their life cycle that is an important link between the organisms, the environment in which their parent motile theca grew, and the sedimentary record. Despite their abundance and wides...

Hopanoids are ubiquitous isoprenoid lipids found in modern biota, in recent sediments and in low-maturity sedimentary rocks. Because these lipids primarily are derived from bacteria, they are used as proxies to help decipher geobiological communities. To date, much of the information about sources of hopanoids has come from surveys of culture collections, an approach that does not address the v...

Radar remote sensing techniques are becoming more widely applied in dryland regions, because the lower frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems enable significant penetration into the subsurface under very dry conditions, allowing subsurface characteristics to be interpreted. Field experiments at two contrasting sites in the Libyan Fazzān show ground-penetrating radar (GPR) can be used ...

Seep sediments are dominated by intensive microbial sulfate reduction coupled to the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). Through geochemical measurements of incubation experiments with methane seep sediments collected from Hydrate Ridge, we provide insight into the role of iron oxides in sulfate-driven AOM. Seep sediments incubated with (13)C-labeled methane showed co-occurring sulfate reduct...

The role of microorganisms in the cycling of sedimentary organic carbon is a crucial one. To better understand relationships between molecular composition of a potentially bioavailable fraction of organic matter and microbial populations, bacterial and archaeal communities were characterized using pyrosequencing-based 16S rRNA gene analysis in surface (top 30 cm) and subsurface/deeper sediments...

The rise of atmospheric oxygen has driven environmental change and biological evolution throughout much of Earth's history and was enabled by the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis in the cyanobacteria. Dating this metabolic innovation using inorganic proxies from sedimentary rocks has been difficult and one important approach has been to study the distributions of fossil lipids, such as ster...