Mechanical and chemical processes experienced by carbonate rocks result in a complex network of natural fractures dissolution features that have direct implications on porosity, permeability, connectivity reservoirs. Characterization is best done core; however, it can be time-consuming due to the large amounts individual present long list attributes typically collected for each feature. Additio...

A pilot study of 13 wells in Means oil field of the Permian basin, West Texas, established porosity-permeability relationships for the Permian Queen, Grayburg and San Andres formations. The optimized workflow used borehole image and conventional log processing with calibration to core data. This approach allowed the quantification of porosity and perme-ability heterogeneity in vuggy carbonate f...

The development of advanced laboratory-based imaging hyperspectral sensors, such as SisuCHEMA, has created an opportunity to extract compositional information of mineral mixtures from spectral images. Determining proportions of minerals on rock surfaces based on spectral signature is a challenging approach due to naturally-occurring minerals that exist in the form of intimate mixtures, and grai...

We introduce a finite-difference method to simulate pore scale steady-state creeping fluid flow in porous media. First, a geometrical approximation is invoked to describe the interstitial space of grid-based images of porous media. Subsequently, a generalized Laplace equation is derived and solved to calculate fluid pressure and velocity distributions in the interstitial space domain. We use a ...

the effect of poultry waste application on physicochemical and biological properties of sandy clay loam soil was investigated on a 7m x 7m plot of land. plot was divided into four portions and 7.5kg each of broiler, cockerel and layers waste was applied to plot a, b, and c in slurry form while plot d was used as control(no application) for eight weeks with two weeks interval. after the fourth a...

Although phosphate and carbonate are important constituents in ancient and modern environments, it is not yet clear their biogeochemical relationships and their mechanisms of formation. Microbially mediated carbonate formation has been widely studied whereas little is known about the formation of phosphate minerals. Here we report that a new bacterial strain, Tessarococcus lapidicaptus, isolate...

The permeability k and porosity φ of vesicular basalts are measured. The relationship between k and φ reflects the formation and emplacement of the basalts and can be related to the crystal and vesicle microstructure obtained by image analysis. Standard theoretical models relating k and φ that work well for granular materials are unsuccessful for vesicular rocks due to the fundamental differenc...

The Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary in Oman is characterized by a globally correlative negative Ccarb excursion in platform carbonate rocks, and deposition of basinal organic-rich rocks. These observations may relate to the development of local, and possibly global, anoxia. We have studied redoxsensitive trace elements (TE) and REE from basinal and platform successions. Detrital input and authigeni...

eastern iran has great potential for porphyry copper deposits, as a result of its past subduction zone tectonic setting that lead to extensive alkaline to calc-alkaline magmatic activity in tertiary time. maherabad is the first porphyry cu-au prospecting area which is discovered in eastern iran. this is related to a succession o f monzonitic to dioritic porphyries stocks that were emplaced with...