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Lateral and Temporal Facies Variations in a Quaternary Travertine Deposit, Belen, New Mexico
(2013-12)
This study examines the spatial relationships within travertine deposits, including variations in facies, constituents, and porosity, in two Quaternary travertine quarries near Belen, New Mexico. It integrates a combination ...
3D Allostratigraphic Mapping and Facies Heterogeneity of a Compound Tributary Incised Valley System, Turonian Ferron Sandstone, Notom Delta, South-Central Utah
(2013-05)
Incised valley systems are important for sequence stratigraphic and
exploration purposes. The tributary component of these systems may inherit complicated, self-similar, plan-view morphologies from the drainage networks ...
PROVENANCE, DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MIDDLE CRETACEOUS SANDSTONES FROM THE ALBERTA FORELAND BASIN
(2013-05)
The Canadian-Alaskan Cordillera exhibits a severely overprinted amalgam of subduction zone, arc, back-arc, ocean basin, and continental margin assemblages that collectively represent more than 750 million years of tectonic ...
CRUSTAL TYPE, TECTONIC ORIGIN, AND PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF THE BAHAMAS CARBONATE PLATFORM
(2013-08)
I used a compilation of publicly available, free-air and Bouguer-corrected gravity and ship-borne magnetic surveys of the Bahama carbonate platform to determine its underlying crustal type, total sedimentary thickness, ...
ORIGIN OF RIFTED CRATONIC BASINS: TESTING THE SLOW STRETCHING MODEL
(2013-08)
Cratonic basins are large depressions filled with sediments that are located on cratonic shields. They are huge repositories of hydrocarbons, fresh water aquifers, and other important resources, and therefore are of important ...
Arc foundations and the Initiation of subduction in the Izu-Bonin forearc
(2013-05)
Our understanding of the lower crust in the ocean basins has been inferred from geophysical studies of mid-ocean ridges (MOR), volcanic arcs, and ophiolites. Many studies of ophiolites suggest that although they exhibit ...
A Petroleum Systems Analysis of the Southern Espanola Basin of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico
(2013-05)
The Española Basin of north-central New Mexico is an asymmetric half graben of the Rio Grande Rift. The Rio Grande Rift is Cenozoic in age with initial extension beginning at approximately 27 Ma. This extension immediately ...
Crustal Structure of the Salton Trough : Constraints from Gravity Modeling.
(2013-08)
The Salton Trough (ST) in the southwestern U.S. is the northward extension of the Gulf of California extensional province. It consists of a series of deep, complex pull-apart structures that formed at different stages of ...
Plan-view Paleochannel Reconstruction and Paleocurrent Field of Meanderbelts, Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Henry Mountain Region, Utah
(2013-08)
Plan view and cliff exposures of an ancient meander belt in the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone member, Mancos Shale Formation, Utah, allow us to evaluate numerical models of facies variability in meander belts. These models ...
Spatial and Temporal Variability in Vertical Deformation in Willowbend, TX Derived from Long-Term GPS and Extensometer Observations
(2013-12)
This study examines the long history of surface deformation observed in the Willowbend neighborhood of Houston, Texas utilizing seven Houston-Galveston Subsidence District GPS stations (2000-2013) and one USGS borehole ...