Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) measurements are widely used to determine pore throat size distribution (PSD) curves of porous materials. The pore throat size of porous materials has been used to estimate their compressive strength and air permeability. However, the effect of sample size on the determined PSD curves is often overlooked. In pursuit of a better understanding of the effect of ...

Calcite cement is the dominant control on reservoir quality in turbidite sandstones of the Upper Permian Bell Canyon Formation, Delaware Basin. These well-sorted, very fine-grained arkoseswere deposited in a basin-floor setting by channel-levee systems terminating in broad lobes. Calcite cement distribution in the East Ford and Geraldine Ford fields was mapped using core, log, and thin-section ...

a r t i c l e i n f o The Upper Cretaceous John Henry Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation preserves regressive shoreface and channel facies, and transgressive lagoonal tidal inlet facies that suggest distinct modal sandstone compositions. Detrital modes from six sandstone facies (upper shoreface, lower shoreface, deflected mouth bars, fluvial channels, tidal inlets and washover fans), and t...

The dispersion of passive scalar by Stokes flow through a dilute suspension of solid spheres fixed at random points in space is a basic model of mixing and transport in an unconsolidated porous medium. Earlier investigators have used a general theory of macroscopic transport to calculate the Lagrangian velocity autocorrelation function and the effective diffusivity of this system. If the tracer...

The elastic properties of the unconsolidated materials which cover most of the earth are, in general, unknown. In this paper, an attempt was made to measure, in the field, the shear and compressional wave velocities, with the emphasis on those for shear waves. For this purpose,'a simple source was devised which produced fairly pure shear waves. A portable refraction seismograph of standard desi...

The Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of northern Arizona and southern Utah has yielded a diverse assemblage of late Early Jurassic terrestrial tetrapods from eolian and associated paleoenvironments. Although rare, vertebrate body fossils are represented by specimens of tritylodonts, crocodylomorphs, sauropodomorphs, and basal theropods (including Segisaurus halli). The vertebrate ichnofossil rec...

Introduction: We have investigated the structurally complex and highly fractured near-surface of the Barringer (aka Meteor) Crater, Arizona. The Barringer Crater is situated near Winslow, Arizona, and is one of the best preserved impact craters in the world. The crater was excavated some 49,000 years ago by the impact of an iron-nickel meteorite which hit the preexisting Colorado Plateau with a...

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...

Settlement panels were used to evaluate the effects of composition of the substratum (sandstone, concrete, wood) and orientation (vertical, horizontal undersides) on subtidal epibiota. It was predicted that both factors would influence the development of epibiotic assemblages, but that differences due to composition would be less marked on horizontal undersides compared to vertical panels. Diff...