Dispersed clay particles in mine tailings and soft sediments remain suspended for decades, hindering consolidation and challenging effective management of these aqueous slurries. Current geotechnical engineering models of self-weight consolidation of tailings do not consider microbial contribution to sediment behavior, however, here we show that microorganisms indigenous to oil sands tailings c...

-In a lateritic pallid zone ilmenite crystals alter via pseudorutile to porous leucoxene grains composed of randomly oriented aggregates of ~0.06/~m anatase crystals. This style of alteration differs from that in beach sands where parallel oriented futile crystals develop from pseudorutile. Increased Si and A1 in the altered grains is due to the crystallization from soil solution of halloysite,...

Phyllosilicate deposits on Mars provide an opportunity to evaluate aqueous activity and the possibility that habitable environments may have existed during the Noachian period there. Analysis of hyperspectral visible/near-infrared (VNIR) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) images has shown thick, complex profiles of phyllosilicates at M...

Glen Torridon (GT) is a recessive-trough feature on the northwestern slope of “Mt. Sharp” in Gale crater, Mars with highest Fe-/Mg-phyllosilicates abundances detected by Curiosity rover to date. Understanding origin these clay minerals and their relationship diagenetic processes critical for reconstructing nature habitability past surface subsurface environments crater. We aim constrain distrib...

The early opening of the South Atlantic ocean along the eastern Romanche Fracture Zone, including an initial phase of transform faulting and pull-apart basin formation, followed by the generation of a seafloor spreading center, was investigated during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 159 to the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana continental margin. Clay minerals in the <0.5-μm fraction of tectonically disturbed sed...

Abstract The well NSE-001 is an exploration located in the North Sumatra Basin, Indonesia, which penetrates several formations with overpressure zones that have potential as a drilling hazard this area. results of pore pressure fracture gradient model show response wireline log data based on normal compaction trend has two types mechanisms, namely loading and unloading. Rapid sedimentation deve...