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Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Late Jurassic Hanifa Formation along the Tuwaiq Escarpment, Saudi Arabia
(2017-06-26)
A sequence stratigraphic framework of the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) Hanifa Formation at its exposure in Central Arabia is presented for the first time. This study offers the first high-resolution stratigraphic framework ...
Characterizing transitional flow deposits in the proximal Brushy Canyon Formation, Texas
(2015-12)
Transitional flow deposits are identified, characterized, and placed in a stratigraphic context in the proximal Brushy Canyon Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas. Transitional flows are sand-laden, mud-rich sediment ...
Sedimentology and reservoir characterization of the Upper Pennsylvanian Cline Shale, Midland Basin, Texas
(2016-08)
The Cline Shale, an organic rich mudrock comprising the Canyon and Cisco Groups in the Midland Basin, has recently become an exploration target and production interval. The Cline is a basin-restricted facies specific to ...
Experimental investigation of ice-covered deltas : the effects of ice cover on delta morphology
(2016-05)
Deltas are dynamic systems that can provide important information on past climate conditions (Helland-Hansen and Martinsen, 1996; Hill et al., 2001; Kim et al., 2006; Bianchi and Allison, 2009). Arctic deltas have the ...
The use of modern digital technology to store and serve biodiversity data for research and educational purposes
(2015-12)
Herein I describe two different projects I completed during the course of my Master’s at The University of Texas at Austin. These projects broadly focused on the application of technology to maintain scientific data for ...
Depositional environment, diagenesis and reservoir quality of the middle Bakken member in the Williston Basin, North Dakota
(2016-08)
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 ...
Size distribution and spatial arrangement of normal faults in A-Bomb Canyon, Buckskin Mountains, Western Arizona
(2017-04-20)
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 ...
Spatial patterns of bedrock weathering at the hillslope scale inferred via drilling and multi-scale geophysical methods
(2018-08-17)
The critical zone (CZ) comprises the near-surface region of the Earth where biological, physical and chemical weathering processes form porous soil and weathered bedrock from initially fresh bedrock. The structure of the ...
Improving resolution of NMO stack using shaping regularization
(2016-05)
Common midpoint (CMP) stacking is one of the major steps in seismic data processing. Traditional CMP stacking sums a combination of normal moveout (NMO) corrected traces across a CMP gather to produce a single trace with ...
A 20,000 year flowstone record of Gulf of Mexico sourced moisture in Texas
(2016-05)
Understanding how future atmospheric warming may affect moisture distribution in the American Southwest is becoming increasingly important. To this end, various paleoclimatic proxies have been used to investigate the range ...