The effectiveness of water flooding oil recovery depends to an important extent on the competitive wetting of oil and water on the solid rock matrix. Here, we use macroscopic contact angle goniometry in highly idealized model systems to evaluate how brine salinity affects the balance of wetting forces and to infer the microscopic origin of the resultant contact angle alteration. We focus, in pa...

The analysis of an acid-soluble and acid-insoluble fraction of one systematically sampled, partially dolomitized limestone bed is reported. The original lime sediment, composed principally of skeletal remains, pellets, occasional intraclasts, detrital quartz, illite, and muscovite has been modified by the addition of calcite, dolomite, and dickite cements and has been patchily replaced by dolom...

[1] We introduce a new method that convolves detrital mineral cooling ages with digital elevation models to test numerical models of erosion in collisional orogens. Along a Trans-Himalayan transect in central Nepal, we develop a kinematic and thermal model to predict variations in bedrock cooling ages in modern Himalayan topography. The model assumes a thermal steady state and utilizes a simple...

Hydrothermal mineral deposits are the primary source of many commodities global importance. Since hydrothermal alteration minerals associated with formation these active in visible and infrared range, analysis spectral absorption features can be used to identify mineralogy different events. Some events responsible for occurrence commodities, while other create unrelated introduction base precio...

Lithium (Li) can be found in many minerals, including lepidolite. Lepidolite is pegmatite-related tin deposits the Phang Nga area southern Thailand. According to their field occurrence, petrography, mineral chemistry, and whole-rock geochemistry, Li-bearing pegmatites granitic rocks study linked Thailand as part of SE Asian belt. The are characterized by an abundance lepidolite, K-feldspar, pla...

The wide range of aluminium variants (alloys and composites) has made it an important material for aviation, automotive components, auto-transmission locomotive section units, S.C.U.B.A. tanks, ship, vessels, submarines fabrication design etc. regardless the fact that alloys were being utilized in myriads sectors owing to its exceptional superior versatile functional characteristics, property s...

In response to addressing potassium (K) deficiency in soil and decreasing agricultural production costs, the potential of K-bearing phyllosilicate minerals that can be directly used as an alternative K source has been investigated using sodium tetraphenylboron (NaTPB) extraction and an intensive cropping experiment. The results showed that the critical value of K-release rate and leaf K concent...