The development of three Tertiary deltaic complexes has resulted in the deposition of up to 10 km of sandstones and shales comprising the sources and reservoirs for crude oils that occur onshore, near-o€shore and, with future exploration e€orts, those likely to be encountered in deepwater reservoirs north of the Brunei coastline. We examined a series of o€shore oils and onshore rock samples in ...

In view of disasters caused by rock burst becoming more and more serious in coal mine production, three models are established for evaluation and prediction the rock burst risk based on artificial neural network. First, ten indicators are determined which have a larger influence on rock burst. Then two back propagation network models are trained using the original data and the processed data re...

Prior research has suggeste d that the source of respirable silica dust in underground coal mines is typically the immediate top or bottom lithology adjacent to the mined seam, not mineral matter bound within the mined coal bed. Geochemical analyses were applied in an effort to identify the specific source rock of respirable quartz dust in coal mines. The analyses also demonstrate the compositi...

Rocks and fossils do not come with labels informing us of their age. They must be understood in light of their geologic context, and interpreted within a worldview. Unfortunately, my evolutionary colleagues are often so dominated by uniformitarian brainwashing they can't objectively understand young-Earth evidence. Nevertheless, some of the evidence is clear and open for all to see. One such cl...

Radon gas is the largest natural source of human exposure to ionizing radiation and most of that exposure occurs in indoor air. Bedrock geology is an important factor in radon hazard evaluation of an area. The presence of rock types usually rich in uranium can be considered an indication of a potential radon hazard. In this study the average Ra activity concentration of the main rock types (ort...

Chemometric methods can enhance geochemical interpretations, especially when working with large datasets. With this aim, exploratory hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and principal component analysis (PCA) methods are used herein to study the bulk pyrolysis parameters of 534 samples from the Persian Gulf basin. These methods are powerful techniques for identifying the patterns of variations i...

protein serine/threonine kinase (ROCK), is one of the central regulatory molecules for cytoskeleton control and cell adhesion process. ROCK also involves in other cell functions such as apoptosis and tumor invasiveness. Rho kinase is thought to play an important role in a variety of cellar functions such as stress fiber formation, focal adhesion formation, cell aggregation, cell morphology, cyt...