We use a physical model to investigate how changes in the distribution of subglacial hydrology affect ice motion of Antarctic ice streams. Ice streams are modeled using silicone polymer placed over a thin water layer to ...

The Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin is an important source rock for oil production in North America. The Bakken Formation is comprised of three units: Upper and Lower Bakken black ...

Recent drilling of deep stratigraphy in subsalt offshore Gulf of Mexico has revealed the presence of thick, amalgamated, Cretaceous siliciclastic reservoirs with the potential to become valid exploration targets. Similar ...

The term "impervious" is commonly used in urban settings to describe the permeability of buildings, roads, and parking lots. When estimating recharge to an aquifer underlying an urbanized area, impervious cover becomes a ...

The spatial arrangement of structural features, such as faults, can be randomly located, clustered together, or anti-clustered in space. The objective of this project is to understand the spatial arrangement of normal ...

Despite major shortening during India-Asia convergence, the dominant late Cenozoic geological features across the southern to central Tibetan plateau are north-trending rifts and associated strike-slip faults. Fault ...

Since its introduction, Darcy's law has been implemented as a mathematical tool that allows simple calculation and prediction of low velocity subsurface flows. However, turbulence, non-isothermal conditions, as well as ...

Geophysical applications often require finding an appropriate solution to an ill-posed inverse problem. An example application is interpolating irregular or sparse data to a regular grid. This data regularization problem ...

Amplitude variation with offset (AVO) signatures in vertically transverse isotropic (VTI) media vary as the degree of the anisotropy contrast between layers varies. When the contrasts in two parameters (δ and ε) that ...

The Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian Buda Formation and Coniacian-Campanian Austin Chalk Group of Texas and northern Mexico are calcareous mudrock (chalk) successions deposited on the drowned lower Cretaceous Comanche platform. ...