Formation of Rock-Basins

The Formation of Lunar Multi-ring Basins

lins, H. J. Melosh, J. W. Head, D. M. Blair, A. M. Freed, K. Miljković, J. M. Soderblom, M. T. Zuber, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. (*[email protected]). Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401. Dept. Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. Depar...

Gas-water-rock interactions in Frio Formation following CO2 injection: Implications for the storage of greenhouse gases in sedimentary basins

To investigate the potential for the geologic storage of CO2 in saline sedimentary aquifers, 1600 t of CO2 were injected at 1500 m depth into a 24-m-thick sandstone section of the Frio Formation, a regional brine and oil reservoir in the U.S. Gulf Coast. Fluid samples obtained from the injection and observation wells before CO2 injection showed a Na-CaCl–type brine with 93,000 mg/L total dissol...

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Strata Formation in Sedimentary Basins

The long-term goals of our stratigraphy project are to obtain experimental evidence and to develop quantitative models of the formation of strata on continental margins. Experiments and analytical models can greatly contribute to better understand the relationships between variation in forcing functions such as sediment supply, sea-level changes and subsidence, and the resulting strata in depos...

Basins of attraction for species extinction and coexistence in spatial rock-paper-scissors games.

We study the collective dynamics of mobile species under cyclic competition by breaking the symmetry in the initial populations and examining the basins of the two distinct asymptotic states: extinction and coexistence, the latter maintaining biodiversity. We find a rich dependence of dynamical properties on initial conditions. In particular, for high mobility, only extinction basins exist and ...

Geochemical Evaluation of Oils and Source Rocks and Oil-source Rock Correlations, Sub-andean Basins, Peru