Each year surface mining in Appalachia disrupts large areas of forested land. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act requires coal mine operators to establish a permanent vegetative cover after mining, and current practice emphasizes soil compaction and planting of competitive forage grasses to stabilize the site and control erosion. These practices hinder recolonization of native hardw...

The purpose of this paper is to examine representative examples of realistic three-dimensional models for porous media by comparing their geometrical and transport properties with those of the original experimental specimen. The comparison is based on numerically exact evaluations of permeability, formation factor, porosity, specific internal surface, mean curvature, Euler number, local porosit...

Glen Torridon (GT) is a recessive-trough feature on the northwestern slope of “Mt. Sharp” in Gale crater, Mars with highest Fe-/Mg-phyllosilicates abundances detected by Curiosity rover to date. Understanding origin these clay minerals and their relationship diagenetic processes critical for reconstructing nature habitability past surface subsurface environments crater. We aim constrain distrib...

ABSTRACT Previously published anomalous whole-rock stable isotopic values from the Poison Strip Sandstone Member of Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation (CMF) eastern Utah are uncertain origins. This study investigated diagenetic history and processes responsible for these data. Accordingly, we integrated photomicroscopic techniques including polarized light microscopy, epifluorescence cathodolu...

Stochastic Joint Simulation of Facies and Diagenesis: A Case Study on Early Diagenesis of the Madison Formation (Wyoming, USA) — The aim of this paper is to propose an integrated approach to reproduce both facies and diagenetic trends in a static reservoir model based on an outcrop Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Rev. IFP Energies nouvelles, Vol. 67 (2012), No. 1, pp. 123-145 Copyright © 201...

This paper presents a work-flow process to describe and characterize tight gas sands. The ultimate objective of this work-flow is to provide a consistent methodology to systematically integrate both large-scale geologic elements and small-scale rock petrology with the physical rock properties for low-permeability sandstone reservoirs. To that end, our work-flow integrates multiple data evaluati...

Citation: Takasu H and Nagata T (2015) High Proline Content of Bacteria-Sized Particles in the Western North Pacific and Its Potential as a New Biogeochemical Indicator of Organic Matter Diagenesis. Front. Mar. Sci. 2:110. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00110 High Proline Content of Bacteria-Sized Particles in the Western North Pacific and Its Potential as a New Biogeochemical Indicator of Organic Mat...