A late Pliocene – early Pleistocene, 2.9–2.0Ma, diatom record from the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) MIS drillcore AND-1B is presented. This core, recovered from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf south of Ross Island, comprises multiple diatomaceous-sediment units deposited during interglacial periods with open water over the core site. These represent interglacial phases of orbitall...

In the last decade, Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR) systems have gained an increasing interest. Many different applications take advantages of the flexibility and capability of such systems to measure deformations with submillimeter precision, map terrains and monitor landslides and other geological phenomena. In literature different focusing algorithms have been proposed. The ai...

The Bonaparte project is a new multi-year bedrock mapping program of the British Columbia Geological Survey (BCGS) concentrating on Mesozoic arc volcanic and plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane in the northeastern part of the Bonaparte Lake (92P) map sheet (Figure 1). The area encompasses a northwest-trending belt of high mineral potential that includes a number of interesting mineral occurre...

We find that the marine 87 Sr/ 86 Sr record shows a significant periodicity of 59.3 ± 3 Myr. The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr record is 171° ± 12°out of phase with a 62 (± 3) Myr periodicity previously reported in the record of marine-animal diversity. These periodicities are close to 58 (± 4) Myr cycles found for the number of gap-bounded sedimentary carbonate packages of North America We propose that these p...

Conservation decisions should be evaluated for how they meet conservation goals at multiple spatial extents. Conservation easements are land use decisions resulting from a combination of social and environmental conditions. An emerging area of research is the evaluation of spatial distribution of easements and their spatial correlates. We tested the relative influence of interacting social and ...

The Geological Survey Office (GSO) undertook a pilot study with the objective of assessing the ability of Survey data to support modern quantitative mineral potential modelling techniques. The Yarrol pilot project was designed to audit digital data sets routinely produced by the GSO, and to provide mineral assessment outputs relevant to both industry and Government decision-making processes. Th...

Fractures have crucial impact on flow in reservoirs. In naturally fractured reservoirs (NFR) the fracture network alone can be the dominant factor in fluid transport. Fractures as geological discontinuities introduce a high level of complexity into the entire reservoir modeling workflow. In current practice, the geological modeling of fractures and flow simulation are considerably disconnected,...

Three-dimensional (3D) modelling of geological body is an important issue of 3D GIS and 3D Geosciences Modelling, and one of the key technologies of digital mine. GTP model and its components are introduced in this paper. According to the relations between chronolith and rock attribute comprehensively, the modelling region, system, series, group and rock characteristics(RC) are regard as the sc...

Geological storage of CO2 is one of the most promising strategies for obtaining largescale reduction in global CO2 emissions. Deep, saline aquifers within sedimentary basins have been identified as attractive options for geologic storage with a large potential storage capacity for CO2 disposal. An important risk of geological storage is the potential for leakage along existing oil and gas wells...

The complexity of stratigraphic architecture makes the geological modeling over-reliance on labor, this means more timeconsuming and inefficiency. It is a difficult problem in using only borehole data in engineering survey for computerized automatic modeling to quickly establish the stratigraphic model. We joined connectivity criteria, as well as virtual drilling method, using an improved “laye...