The early-mid Paleocene Farewell Formation is stratigraphically distributed across the 10 southern Taranaki Basin (STB) which is also encountered within the Maui Gas Field. Using 11 available 3D seismic and well log data, a challenging task to delineate the spatial distribution and 12 geobody patterns of the potential reservoir sands of the formation was performed. Object based 13 modeling coup...

Comparison of ice discharge from higher elevation areas of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet with total snow accumulation gives estimates of ice thickening rates over the past few decades. On average, the region has been in balance, but with thickening of 21 centimeters per year in the southwest and thinning of 30 centimeters per year in the southeast. The north of the ice sheet shows less variabi...

Piggyback basins on the margins of growing orogens commonly serve as sensitive recorders of the onset of thrust deformation and changes in source areas. The Bieertuokuoyi piggyback basin, located in the hanging wall of the Pamir Frontal Thrust, provides an unambiguous record of the outward growth of the northeast Pamir margin in northwest China from the Miocene through the Quaternary. To recons...

The spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of tourist attractions in China are analyzed by GIS SPSS. main urban landscape tourism resources deeply explored order to provide a reference for the construction national park system optimal allocation future. results show following: (1) pattern is strong southeast weak northwest. It shows structure global concentrated contiguous...

Nested clade analysis was applied to cytochrome b restriction site data previously obtained on 20 natural populations of the European rabbit across the Iberian Peninsula to test the hypothesis of postglacial dispersal from two main refugia, one in the northeast and the other in the southwest. Apart from historical fragmentation that resulted in geographic discontinuity of two distinct mitochond...

the zagros fold- thrust belt as a part of alpine- himalayan orogenic belt, is one of the most active continental collision zones on the earth, which extends from the tarus mountains in south eastern turkey to the minab fault in the east of the strait of hormoz in southern iran. structurally, its formation is related to the continuing convergent movement between the arabian plate to the southwes...

We present a global dioxin model that simulates one year of atmospheric emissions, transport processes, and depositions to the earth's terrestrial and marine habitats. We map starting emission levels for each land area, and we also map the resulting deposits to terrestrial and marine environments. This model confirms that 'hot spots' of deposition are likely to be in northern Europe, eastern No...

Monthly mean air temperature and precipitation data, monthly dust storm frequencies (times of dust storm occurrences) of 107 stations in North China were analyzed to clarify the relationship between the climate change and dust storm occurrence. Arid regions of North China were divided into five and trends of dust storm occurrence and climate changes showed different patterns for these regions, ...

The forest shelterbelt (afforestation) project in northern China is the most significant ecosystem project initiated in China during the past three decades. It aims to improve and conserve the ecological environment in the project areas. The tree belt stands along the southern edge of the sandy lands, nearly paralleling to the Great Wall. This study used a regional climate model to simulate the...

Simultaneous intensive radiosonde observation at three stations over northeast (Sylhet), central (Dhaka), and northwest (Bogra) Bangladesh was analyzed to describe a three-dimensional thermodynamic and airflow structures on 25 April 2010, in which a distinct nocturnal rainfall occurred at Sylhet. As the observation was conducted in the daytime, the observed structures represent convectively ina...