Predicting oil recovery efficiency of a deepwater reservoir is a challenging task. One approach to characterize a deepwater reservoir and to predict its producibility is by analyzing its depositional information. This research proposes a deposition-based stratigraphic interpretation framework for deepwater reservoir characterization. In this framework, one critical task is the identification an...

Introduction: The unifying theme of the Mars Exploration Program is the search for evidence of past or present liquid water [1]. The underlying assumption behind this is that areas on Mars exposed to liquid water would have had the highest probability of capturing and preserving biomarkers. As a part of this program strategy, two Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) will launch toward Mars in 2003, w...

We present a new 1:25,000-scale geological map of the lower Belice River valley, area struck by M > 5.0 devastating 1968 seismic sequence, whose source and seismotectonic framework are still controversial. The map, utilizing dating methods traditional field survey approaches integrated high-resolution topography, provides an unprecedented detail precision on spatial distribution compressional g...

Abstract A detailed geological-depositional model and a clear understanding of the depositional elements reservoirs decrease drilling risks in development oil gas fields. Building an effective geological is challenge West El-Burullus (WEB) area because its complicated reservoir, which consists turbidite incised canyons system Pliocene shales intercalated with sands. These have occurred due to t...

8 Surface-based models imitate a sequence of depositional events in time. By 9 considering sedimentation processes, these algorithms produce highly realistic 10 subsurface structures from a variety of environments. However, since depositional 11 events are forward-modeled, they cannot be directly conditioned to data. Instead, 12 conditioning requires inferring the right combinations of paramete...

The toxicity of sediments collected from depositional and erosional substrates at two locations on the Cuyahoga River in northeastern Ohio was compared. Upstream and downstream locations from the Akron Water Pollution Control Station (Akron WPCS) were selected to evaluate effects of the Akron WPCS effluent on sediment toxicity. Seven-day Ceriodaphnia dubia bioassays were conducted on sediment e...

Quaternary magnetic studies have provided the conceptual framework to bridge magnetic studies into ancient systems. In cases where environmental materials have been subjected to diagenetic alteration two questions come to mind: 1) What part of the magnetic signal is preserved in the rocks; and 2) can the preserved signal be used to infer/identify magnetic patterns that are characteristic of the...

Investigations of the atmospheric fallout of 7Be and 210pb in many places around the globe indicate that there are seasonal variations on the alepositional fluxes of these nuclides: high in winter in a few places, while in most places the high occurs in spring. However, these earlier studies did not address quantitatively the corresponding seasonal variations of the amount of precipitation duri...

The paper presents a 3D sedimentological characterization of a delta plain reservoir. The analysis started with detailed core description studies focusing on the genetic interpretations of the sedimentary structures and multivariate statistical analyses (including Q-mode cluster and R-mode factor analysis), of the sporadic grain-size distributions. These results made the depositional processes ...

The Upper Cretaceous facies of Enugu Area are part of the sequence in the Anambra Basin of Southeastern Nigeria. These include the Enugu Shale, Mamu Formation, Ajali Sandstone and Nsukka Formation. The deformation structures within the Upper Cretaceous in Enugu area were dominant to sandstones of the Marnu Formation. The white silty fine sandstone, muddy fine sandstone and heteroliths of this f...