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Characterizing reservoir quality for geologic storage of CO2 : a case study from the Lower Miocene shore zone at Matagorda Bay, Texas
(2021-05-10)
The geologic storage of anthropogenic CO₂ through Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) is necessary to reduce the emissions produced as a biproduct of fossil fuel combustion. This process of injecting CO₂ into ...
Timing and controls on Late Paleozoic tectonism and synorogenic sedimentation, Bursum Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA
(2021-05-07)
Defining the role of Ancestral Rocky Mountain (ARM) tectonics on basin evolution and infill is critical for hydrocarbon exploration and development in the Permian and Orogrande basins, yet the timing and controls of late ...
Mechanical stratigraphic control on deformation in a fault-propagation fold, Gobbler Anticline, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA
(2021-05-06)
Folded carbonates are host to a significant portion of the world’s hydrocarbon reservoirs. To date, analog data to aid prediction of the style, intensity, and distribution of critical strain elements such as opening-mode ...
Anatomy of deltaic compound clinoforms : Colorado Delta in Baja California, Mexico, Pliocene Colorado Delta in Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin, California, USA, and a review of modern examples
(2021-05-17)
Modern Delta systems commonly exhibit compound clinoforms that consist of two elements, a shoreline clinoform, and a separate subaqueous clinoform, both with a topset–foreset–bottomset morphology, with a wide low-gradient ...
Sequence stratigraphy in strike variable fluvio-lacustrine systems : evidence from Eocene Lake Uinta and modern analogs
(2021-05-10)
This thesis presents an outcrop-based, near depositional-strike cross section of fluvio-lacustrine interactions along the well-studied Nine Mile Canyon near Helper, Utah, highlighting the strike variability of facies and ...
Analysis of hydraulic fracture growth and segmentation : implications for the HFTS1 slant core, Wolfcamp Fm., Midland Basin, West Texas
(2021-07-22)
The 6TW slant core is part of the multidisciplinary Hydraulic Fracture Test Site (HFTS1) project in the Midland Basin. The slant core made a close pass by two horizontal wells on an 11-well pad and has yielded new insight ...
Systematic comparison of different machine learning based earthquake detection methods
(2021-05-07)
A major goal of installing seismic arrays is to detect and locate earthquakes. Earthquake detection and location are fundamental problems in seismology, are the foundation for techniques such as tomography, and are crucial ...
A generalized model to estimate the elastic stiffness tensor of mudrocks based on the full strain tensor
(2021-05-07)
I develop a three-step framework to model the anisotropic elastic properties of a mechanically compacted mudrock based on the full strain tensor. I model the microstructure as an effective medium representative of locally ...
Provenance, geochronology and sedimentary characteristics of the Campanian M1 Sandstone, Napo Formation, Oriente Basin, Ecuador
(2020-12-11)
The Campanian-Maastrichtian M1 Sandstone is one of the major oil reservoir units of the Napo Formation in the Oriente Basin of Ecuador. Heterogeneous reservoir behavior suggests that the depositional environments of the ...
Tectonothermal evolution of a hyperextended continental rift margin, Egypt, Red Sea
(2021-05-07)
Scientific understanding of the mechanics of continental breakup in the absence of voluminous magmatism has dramatically evolved over the past decades. Numerical and conceptual rift models have elucidated the temporal and ...