Wave propagation is used as an advanced tool of determining elastic properties of rocks. In spite of being cheap and non destructive tests of rock mechanics, due to its modernity method is not yet replacing the traditional dear and destructive tests. In order to pave ways of replacing this test and making best use of it all effective factors of such method are to be assessed. One fundamental fa...

Joints within the Catskill Delta complex are believed to be natural hydraulic fractures and abundant indirect evidence supports this claim. The indirect evidence is based on many observations of joint surface morphology and joint spacing among other features. The Alleghanian orogeny left a unique imprint on the joint surfaces also, indicating a rotating horizontal compressive stress field. Nume...

The Trout Valley Formation of Emsian–Eifelian age in northern Maine hosts evidence of early vascular plant communities interpreted as having colonized wetland, estuarine environments. To date, collections made under permits issued by the Baxter State Park Commission, originate from outcrop along Trout Brook, its tributaries, and poorly exposed lithologies inside the woodlands. Construction of a...

Abstract X-ray computed tomography (CT) can reveal internal, three-dimensional details of objects in a non-destructive way and provide high-resolution, quantitative data the form CT numbers. The sensitivity number to changes material density means that it may be used identify lithology within cores sedimentary rocks. present pilot study confirms use Representative Elementary Volume (REV) quanti...

Diagenetic models for silt-rich mudstone (siltstone) are less advanced than those sandstone and clay-rich mudstone. In addition, the influences of diagenetic processes on reservoir quality in siltstone formations poorly understood. Here we examine roles depositional facies, detrital composition, compositional evolution Lower Triassic Montney Formation, a prominent siltstone-dominated western Ca...

A new ichnogenus and ichnospecies of burrow, Katbergia carltonichnus, are described from Upper Permian and Lower Triassic rocks of the Karoo Basin, South Africa, where they are preserved in pedogenically modified overbank deposits that are interpreted as inceptisols subsequently gleysol overprinted. Sigmoidal burrows consist of a long (‡0.5 m) cylindrical tube, ranging from 1–2 cm in diameter, ...