Offshore wind is a key part of the change toward renewable energy sources. farm developments are moving to sites that characterized by increased water depths and layered soil profiles, e.g., in North Sea. Suction caisson–based jacked structures expected be increasingly used support turbines at such sites. Experience suction caissons serving as foundations for offshore limited. The mechanisms go...

The applications and studies of gravity anchors in the ocean are becoming more extensive. Most research, however, has been directed toward bearing properties sand. Relatively less attention paid to clay. Clay is widely distributed on seabed. research capacity clay great significance for offshore oil exploitation. Therefore, anchor was investigated by conducting reduced-scale model tests, proces...

Environmental analysis of offshore shale members of Upper Pennsylvanian Midcontinent cyclothems was undertaken using a combination of high-resolution X-radiography, petrography, and geochemical analyses. A hierarchical sampling strategy permitted investigation of (1) broad stratigraphic and geographic patterns of compositional variation through analysis of three shale members (Hushpuckney, Star...

Mudstones make up the majority of the geological record. However, it is difficult to reconstruct the complex processes of mud deposition in the laboratory, such as the clumping of particles into floccules. Using flume experiments, we have investigated the bedload transport and deposition of clay floccules and find that this occurs at flow velocities that transport and deposit sand. Deposition-p...

We describe deep-water ghost shrimp assemblages from the otherwise well known Oligocene Kiscell Clay in Hungary. The described fossorial shrimps (Decapoda: Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae) include: Ctenocheles rupeliensis (younger synonym Callianassa nuda) and Lepidophthalmus crateriferus (younger synonym Callianassa brevimanus). The fossil material of the former species is assigned to Ctenoch...

Recent years, offshore outsourcing has received large amount of attention from both industry and academia because of its attractive advantages such as cost reduction, talent access. As an alternative way to implement information systems in operation management, offshore insourcing has been greatly overlooked. Though organizations shun from the contractual obligations in offshore insourcing, the...