Rosenfeld and Pindell (2002, 2003) hypothesized that the Gulf of Mexico evaporated to a level below the world ocean for a brief interval during the Paleocene-Eocene. Further study and the results of recent drilling support this idea and suggest that a major change in the interpretation of the Gulf’s history may be warranted. The idea originally arose to explain several major Paleocene-Eocene pa...

An iron enrichment experiment (Subarctic Ecosystem Response to Iron Enrichment Study), SERIES was carried out at Ocean Station Papa (50°N, 145°W) in the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean in July 2002, in order to observe the physiological, ecological and biogeochemical responses to a release from iron stress in these high-nitrate, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) waters. The patch was created by injectin...

The radon simulation model has been used to simulate radon concentration response during production drawdown and two flowrate transient tests in vapor-dominated systems. Comparison of model simulation with experimental data from field tests provides insight in the analysis of reservoir phenomena such as propagation of boiling fronts, and estimates of reservoir properties of porosity and permeab...

The choice of the term drawdown automata is deliberate; that is exactly the purpose for which we’ll use them. A cellular automaton, as a whole, passes through a succession of configurations corresponding to the states of its cells. The automaton goes from one configuration to another at discrete intervals of time, the states of all its cells changing in parallel. The change of state of a cell i...

One of the main concerns to design earth dam is the stability of the upstream slope of the earth dam in phase of rapid drawdown. Confined pore water pressure reduces the effective stress in this mode, so possibility of the instability and slippage will be increased. The main goal of this research is to investigate changes in the pore water pressure by using horizontal drains in upstream slope o...