Geology
epub |eng | | Author:Troyee Dasgupta & Soumyajit Mukherjee

The common pressure generating mechanism seen in the U.S Gulf Coast wells is due to compaction disequilibrium but the log signatures in some wells of the Gulf of Mexico depicted ...
( Category: Sedimentary April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosemarie Klemm & Dietrich Klemm

A diagonally running retention wall crossing the N-S oriented wadi is just barely made out in the stereoscopic aerial image, though hardly in the field. The wall served to collect ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia M. Glibert, Elisa Berdalet, Michele A. Burford, Grant C. Pitcher & Mingjiang Zhou

Acknowledgments This is a contribution of the GEOHAB Core Research Project on HABs in Upwelling Systems. References Álvarez-Salgado XA, Figueiras FG, Fernández-Reiriz MJ et al (2011) Control of lipophilic shellfish ...
( Category: Marine Biology April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-30 | Author:William J Broad [Broad, William J]

Still, de Boer felt Hale’s question was fresh and worth exploring. Who knew what they’d find? Maybe a novel mechanism would come to light. He sensed that an answer might ...
( Category: Geology April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Meltzer [David J. Meltzer]

( Category: Geology April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Roberts, Neil

Southwest Asia Southwest Asia (alternatively known as the Near East) is probably the earliest and arguably the most important of all the global centres of domestication. From the Neolithic farmers ...
( Category: Environmental Science April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maier, Gerhard;

Parlett and Kershaw arrived at Tendaguru on October 31 as planned. They were toured around the area the next day, and Kershaw began mapping at M12, which had yielded part ...
( Category: Vertebrate April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tarek Al-Arbi Omar Ganat

Scenario Well spacing (ft) No of wells Fracture spacing (ft) Fracture conductivity (md-ft) Fracture half length (ft) 1 500 8 350 50 250 2 750 6 350 46 350 3 ...
( Category: Sedimentary April 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-19 | Author:Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Interlude: The Antarctic Convergence Jim Kennett, a central figure in the early history of paleoceanography, was the same age as Joseph Hooker when he first saw Antarctica. And, like Hooker, ...
( Category: Climatology March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Bjørn Vassnes

A CLOSER LOOK The Cryosphere Today The factor that determines the size of the cryosphere is which areas experience temperatures below the freezing point of water over the course of ...
( Category: Geology March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Zalasiewicz, Jan;

CHEMICAL MESSAGES What, for instance, was the sum total of life, of living organisms, in the oceans that stretched out from that particular spot of the ancient Welsh sea floor, ...
( Category: Geology March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Weishampel, David B.

TWENTY-ONE Pachycephalosauria TERESA MARYASKA RALPH E. CHAPMAN DAVID B. WEISHAMPEL Pachycephalosauria, often called dome-headed or thick-headed dinosaurs, is a group of bipedal ornithischians with thickened bones of the skull roof. ...
( Category: Geology March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Richard Cannings

Northern Timberline: The Shrub Tundra The subalpine zone in northern British Columbia (north of Williston Lake) is characterized by tall willow and birch shrubs. Although these shrubs can be difficult ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Ellen Prager

Earthquakes: The Unknowns The Landers Sequence Before this, no one thought faults could communicate. —Ross Stein, seismologist California is a land built, modified, and frequented by earthquakes. In 1992 a ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Burbank, Douglas W., Anderson, Robert S. & Robert S. Anderson

If the regime switches to one in which erosion prevails over tectonic thickening, such that the crust actually thins, then the reduced mass of the mountains will drive an isostatic ...
( Category: Geomorphology March 23,2020 )