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Introduction to the UCGIS research agenda
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E. Lynn Usery, Robert B. McMaster
Postscript on the UCGIS and research
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D. M. Mark, E. Lynn Usery, Robert B. McMaster
Methane hydrate studies: Delineating properties of host sediments to establish reproducible decomposition kinetics
We have presented a summary of measurements on the physical properties of sediments relevant to methane hydrate recovery. The data includes not only geotechnical determinations, but also the CMT data that gives porosity values and pathways through the sediment material. The results show that CMT techniques can be used to study sediment properties on a micrometer-size scale. Since the technique is
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Devinder Mahajan, Phillip Servio, Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, William J. Winters
Los impactos de las actividades relacionadas con el petroleo y el gas en la disminucion de los humedales costeros del delta del Misisipi
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Jae-Young Ko, John Day, John Barras, Robert Morton, James Johnston, Gregory Steyer, G. Paul Kemp, Ellis Clairain, Russell Theriot
The geochemical and magnetic record of coal combustion products in West Virginia reservoir sediments and soils
Western West Virginia lies downwind from numerous coal-fired power plants along the Ohio River Valley. To test whether geochemical and mineralogical impacts from these power plants are detectable on the West Virginia landscape, we obtained reservoir cores, soils, and rocks from two separate sites in West Virginia, one in Harrison County (Hinkel and Deegan Reservoirs) and the other in Roane County
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Martin B. Goldhaber, Ted Callender, Richard L. Reynolds
Chapter 14 Rex Chert member of the Permian Phosphoria Formation: Composition, with emphasis on elements of environmental concern
We present bulk chemical and mineralogical compositions, as well as petrographic and outcrop descriptions, of rocks collected from three measured outcrop sections of the Rex Chert Member of the Phosphoria Formation in southeast Idaho. The three measured sections were chosen from 10 outcrops of Rex Chert that were described in the field. The Rex Chert overlies the Meade Peak Phosphatic Shale Member
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James R. Hein, B.R. McIntyre, R.B. Perkins, David Z. Piper, J. G. Evans
Tertiary thrust systems and fluid flow beneath the Beaufort coastal plain (1002 area), Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, U.S.A.
Beneath the Arctic coastal plain (commonly referred to as "the 1002 area") in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Alaska, United States, seismic reflection data show that the northernmost and youngest part of the Brookian orogen is preserved as a Paleogene to Neogene system of blind and buried thrust-related structures. These structures involve Proterozoic to Miocene (and younger?) r
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Christopher J. Potter, John A. Grow, William J. Perry, Thomas E. Moore, Paul B. O'Sullivan, Jeffrey D. Phillips, Richard W. Saltus
Two stages of deformation and fluid migration in the west-central Brooks Range fold-and-thrust belt, Northern Alaska
The Brooks Range is a north-directed fold and thrust belt that forms the southern boundary of the North Slope petroleum province in northern Alaska. Field-based studies have long recognized that large-magnitude, thin-skinned folding and thrusting in the Brooks Range occurred during arc-continent collision in the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Neocomian). Folds and thrusts, however, also defo
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Thomas E. Moore, Christopher J. Potter, Paul B. O'Sullivan, Kevin L. Shelton, Michael B. Underwood
A kinematic model for the southern Alaska orocline based on regional fault patterns
Among the most prominent physiographic features of southern Alaska are a series of nested arcuate lineations, including the Denali fault, that parallel the concave-southward southern coastline of the state. These features are generally interpreted as major dextral shear zones that formed in the Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary in response to stresses imposed on the western edge of North America b
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Jonathan M.G. Glen
The complexity of reversals
This chapter contains sections titled:IntroductionSome Illustrative Polarity Transition RecordsThe Case for ComplexityConclusions
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Robert S. Coe, Jonathan M.G. Glen
Thermal alteration of Cretaceous black shale from the Eastern Atlantic. III: Laboratory simulations
Laboratory thermal alteration (pyrolysis) experiments were carried out on composited Cretaceous black shale samples from DSDP Hole 368. Dried rock samples (low water-rock ratio) were heated in an inert atmosphere in the range of 250–500°C and the resultant bitumen and kerogen concentrates were characterized. Pyrobitumen forms initially (250°C), then major hydrocarbon generation occurs from 300–360
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Bernd R. T. Simoneit, K. E. Peters, Brian G. Rohrback, S. Brenner, I.R. Kaplan