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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2018-11-09
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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    Publication Date: 2018-09-20
    Description: The relationships between trachytes and peralkaline rhyolites (i.e. pantellerites and comendites), which occur in many continental rift systems, oceanic islands and continental intraplate settings, is unclear. To fill this gap, we have performed phase equilibrium experiments on two representative metaluminous trachytes from Pantelleria to determine both their pre-eruptive equilibration conditions (pressure, temperature, H2O content and redox state) and liquid lines of descent. Experiments were performed in the temperature range 750–950 C, pressure 0 5–1 5 kbar and fluid saturation conditions with XH2O [¼H2O/(H2OþCO2)] ranging between zero and unity. Redox conditions were fixed below the nickel–nickel oxide buffer (NNO). The results show that at 950 C and melt water contents (H2Omelt) close to saturation, trachytes are at liquidus conditions at all pressures. Clinopyroxene is the liquidus phase, being followed by iron-rich olivine and alkali feldspar. Comparison of experimental and natural phases (abundances and compositions) yields the following pre-eruptive conditions: P¼160 5 kbar, T¼925625 C, H2Omelt¼261wt %, and fO2 between NNO– 0 5 and NNO– 2. A decrease in temperature from 950 C to 750 C, as well as of H2Omelt, promotes a massive crystallization of alkali feldspar to over 80 wt %. Iron-bearing minerals show gradual iron enrichment when T and fO2 decrease, trending towards the compositions of the phenocrysts of natural pantellerites. Despite the metaluminous character of the bulk-rock compositions, residual glasses obtained after 80 wt % crystallization evolve toward comenditic compositions, owing to profuse alkali feldspar crystallization, which decreases the Al2O3 of the melt, leading to a consequent increase in the peralkalinity index [PI¼molar (Na2OþK2O)/Al2O3]. This is the first experimental demonstration that peralkaline felsic derivatives can be produced by low-pressure fractional crystallization of metaluminous mafic magmas. Our results show that the pantelleritic magmas of basalt–trachyte–rhyolite igneous suites require at least 95 wt % of parental basalt crystallization, consistent with trace element evidence. Redox conditions, through their effect on Fe–Ti oxide stabilities, control the final iron content of the evolving melt.
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    Description: 2V. Struttura e sistema di alimentazione dei vulcani
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: peralkaline silicic magmatism ; Pantelleria ; Green Tuff ; petrology
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: © The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in PLoS One 13 (2018): e0205015, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205015.
    Description: Channelopsins and photo-regulated ion channels make it possible to use light to control electrical activity of cells. This powerful approach has lead to a veritable explosion of applications, though it is limited to changing membrane voltage of the target cells. An enormous potential could be tapped if similar opto-genetic techniques could be extended to the control of chemical signaling pathways. Photopigments from invertebrate photoreceptors are an obvious choice—as they do not bleach upon illumination -however, their functional expression has been problematic. We exploited an unusual opsin, pScop2, recently identified in ciliary photoreceptors of scallop. Phylogenetically, it is closer to vertebrate opsins, and offers the advantage of being a bi-stable photopigment. We inserted its coding sequence and a fluorescent protein reporter into plasmid vectors and demonstrated heterologous expression in various mammalian cell lines. HEK 293 cells were selected as a heterologous system for functional analysis, because wild type cells displayed the largest currents in response to the G-protein activator, GTP-γ-S. A line of HEK cells stably transfected with pScop2 was generated; after reconstitution of the photopigment with retinal, light responses were obtained in some cells, albeit of modest amplitude. In native photoreceptors pScop2 couples to Go; HEK cells express poorly this G-protein, but have a prominent Gq/PLC pathway linked to internal Ca mobilization. To enhance pScop2 competence to tap into this pathway, we swapped its third intracellular loop—important to confer specificity of interaction between 7TMDRs and G-proteins—with that of a Gq-linked opsin which we cloned from microvillar photoreceptors present in the same retina. The chimeric construct was evaluated by a Ca fluorescence assay, and was shown to mediate a robust mobilization of internal calcium in response to illumination. The results project pScop2 as a potentially powerful optogenetic tool to control signaling pathways.
    Description: This work was funded by Colciencias grant FP44842-010-2015 and Connecticut Fund for Science.
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: © The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in PLos One 13 (2018): e0200386, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200386.
    Description: Soft robotics is an emerging technology that has shown considerable promise in deep-sea marine biological applications. It is particularly useful in facilitating delicate interactions with fragile marine organisms. This study describes the shipboard design, 3D printing and integration of custom soft robotic manipulators for investigating and interacting with deep-sea organisms. Soft robotics manipulators were tested down to 2224m via a Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV) in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) and facilitated the study of a diverse suite of soft-bodied and fragile marine life. Instantaneous feedback from the ROV pilots and biologists allowed for rapid re-design, such as adding “fingernails”, and re-fabrication of soft manipulators at sea. These were then used to successfully grasp fragile deep-sea animals, such as goniasterids and holothurians, which have historically been difficult to collect undamaged via rigid mechanical arms and suction samplers. As scientific expeditions to remote parts of the world are costly and lengthy to plan, on-the-fly soft robot actuator printing offers a real-time solution to better understand and interact with delicate deep-sea environments, soft-bodied, brittle, and otherwise fragile organisms. This also offers a less invasive means of interacting with slow-growing deep marine organisms, some of which can be up to 18,000 years old.
    Description: This work is supported by NOAA OER Grant # NA17OAR0110083 “Exploration of the Seamounts of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area” to RDR, EEC, TMS and DFG and Schmidt Ocean Institute Grant: “What is the Current State of the Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystem in the Phoenix Island Protected Area?” to EEC, RDR, TMS and DFG; NSF Instrument Development for Biological Research Award # 1556164 to RJW and #1556123 to DFG; the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative of the National Academy of Sciences under award #NAKFI DBS21 to RJW and DFG; and NFS Research Fellowship awarded to KPB (#DGE1144152). It is also supported by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. We are grateful for the support from the National Geographic Society Innovation Challenge (Grant No.: SP 12-14) to RJW and DFG.
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: © The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Conservation Physiology 6 (2018): coy049, doi:10.1093/conphys/coy049.
    Description: Male baleen whales have long been suspected to have annual cycles in testosterone, but due to difficulty in collecting endocrine samples, little direct evidence exists to confirm this hypothesis. Potential influences of stress or adrenal stress hormones (cortisol, corticosterone) on male reproduction have also been difficult to study. Baleen has recently been shown to accumulate steroid hormones during growth, such that a single baleen plate contains a continuous, multi-year retrospective record of the whale’s endocrine history. As a preliminary investigation into potential testosterone cyclicity in male whales and influences of stress, we determined patterns in immunoreactive testosterone, two glucocorticoids (cortisol and corticosterone), and stable-isotope (SI) ratios, across the full length of baleen plates from a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) and a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), all adult males. Baleen was subsampled at 2 cm (bowhead, right) or 1 cm (blue) intervals and hormones were extracted from baleen powder with methanol, followed by quantification of all three hormones using enzyme immunoassays validated for baleen extract of these species. Baleen of all three males contained regularly spaced peaks in testosterone content, with number and spacing of testosterone peaks corresponding well to SI data and to species-specific estimates of annual baleen growth rate. Cortisol and corticosterone exhibited some peaks that co-occurred with testosterone peaks, while other glucocorticoid peaks occurred independent of testosterone peaks. The right whale had unusually high glucocorticoids during a period with a known entanglement in fishing gear and a possible disease episode; in the subsequent year, testosterone was unusually low. Further study of baleen testosterone patterns in male whales could help clarify conservation- and management-related questions such as age of sexual maturity, location and season of breeding, and the potential effect of anthropogenic and natural stressors on male testosterone cycles.
    Description: This work was supported by (1) the Arizona Board of Regents Technology Research Initiative Fund; (2) the Center for Bioengineering Innovation at Northern Arizona University; (3) the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources; (4) the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Life Institute and (5) Fisheries and Ocean Canada’s (DFO) Priorities and Partnership Strategic Initiatives Fund and Oceans Protection Plan.
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: © The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in PLoS One 13 (2018): e0207532, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0207532.
    Description: Acoustic standing waves can precisely focus flowing particles or cells into tightly positioned streams for interrogation or downstream separations. The efficiency of an acoustic standing wave device is dependent upon operating at a resonance frequency. Small changes in a system’s temperature and sample salinity can shift the device’s resonance condition, leading to poor focusing. Practical implementation of an acoustic standing wave system requires an automated resonance control system to adjust the standing wave frequency in response to environmental changes. Here we have developed a rigorous approach for quantifying the optimal acoustic focusing frequency at any given environmental condition. We have demonstrated our approach across a wide range of temperature and salinity conditions to provide a robust characterization of how the optimal acoustic focusing resonance frequency shifts across these conditions. To generalize these results, two microfluidic bulk acoustic standing wave systems (a steel capillary and an etched silicon wafer) were examined. Models of these temperature and salinity effects suggest that it is the speed of sound within the liquid sample that dominates the resonance frequency shift. Using these results, a simple reference table can be generated to predict the optimal resonance condition as a function of temperature and salinity. Additionally, we show that there is a local impedance minimum associated with the optimal system resonance. The integration of the environmental results for coarse frequency tuning followed by a local impedance characterization for fine frequency adjustments, yields a highly accurate method of resonance control. Such an approach works across a wide range of environmental conditions, is easy to automate, and could have a significant impact across a wide range of microfluidic acoustic standing wave systems.
    Description: This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R21GM107805 and the NSF under award number (OCE-1130140 and OCE-1131134) to SWG, RJO, and HMS.
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: © The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Environmental Epigenetics 4 (2018): dvy005, doi:10.1093/eep/dvy005.
    Description: There is growing evidence that environmental toxicants can affect various physiological processes by altering DNA methylation patterns. However, very little is known about the impact of toxicant-induced DNA methylation changes on gene expression patterns. The objective of this study was to determine the genome-wide changes in DNA methylation concomitant with altered gene expression patterns in response to 3, 3’, 4, 4’, 5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB126) exposure. We used PCB126 as a model environmental chemical because the mechanism of action is well-characterized, involving activation of aryl hydrocarbon receptor, a ligand-activated transcription factor. Adult zebrafish were exposed to 10 nM PCB126 for 24 h (water-borne exposure) and brain and liver tissues were sampled at 7 days post-exposure in order to capture both primary and secondary changes in DNA methylation and gene expression. We used enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing and RNAseq to quantify DNA methylation and gene expression, respectively. Enhanced reduced representation bisulfite sequencing analysis revealed 573 and 481 differentially methylated regions in the liver and brain, respectively. Most of the differentially methylated regions are located more than 10 kilobases upstream of transcriptional start sites of the nearest neighboring genes. Gene Ontology analysis of these genes showed that they belong to diverse physiological pathways including development, metabolic processes and regeneration. RNAseq results revealed differential expression of genes related to xenobiotic metabolism, oxidative stress and energy metabolism in response to polychlorinated biphenyl exposure. There was very little correlation between differentially methylated regions and differentially expressed genes suggesting that the relationship between methylation and gene expression is dynamic and complex, involving multiple layers of regulation.
    Description: This work was supported by the National Institute of Health Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award to NA (NIH R01ES024915) and Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health [National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant P01ES021923 and National Science Foundation Grant OCE-1314642 to M. Hahn, J. Stegeman, NA and SK].
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © The Authors, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of The Royal Astronomical Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Journal International 215 (2018): 1072–1087, doi:10.1093/gji/ggy203.
    Description: An earthquake rupture process can be kinematically described by rupture velocity, duration and spatial extent. These key kinematic source parameters provide important constraints on earthquake physics and rupture dynamics. In particular, core questions in earthquake science can be addressed once these properties of small earthquakes are well resolved. However, these parameters of small earthquakes are poorly understood, often limited by available data sets and methodologies. The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Community Wavefield Experiment in Oklahoma deployed ∼350 three-component nodal stations within 40 km2 for a month, offering an unprecedented opportunity to test new methodologies for resolving small earthquake finite source properties in high resolution. In this study, we demonstrate the power of the nodal data set to resolve the variations in the seismic wavefield over the focal sphere due to the finite source attributes of an M2 earthquake within the array. The dense coverage allows us to tightly constrain rupture area using the second moment method even for such a small earthquake. The M2 earthquake was a strike-slip event and unilaterally propagated towards the surface at 90 per cent local S-wave speed (2.93 km s−1). The earthquake lasted ∼0.019 s and ruptured Lc ∼70 m and Wc ∼45 m. With the resolved rupture area, the stress-drop of the earthquake is estimated as 7.3 MPa for Mw 2.3. We demonstrate that the maximum and minimum bounds on rupture area are within a factor of two, much lower than typical stress-drop uncertainty, despite a suboptimal station distribution. The rupture properties suggest that there is little difference between the M2 Oklahoma earthquake and typical large earthquakes. The new three-component nodal systems have great potential for improving the resolution of studies of earthquake source properties.
    Description: WF is currently supported by the Postdoctoral Scholar Program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, with funding provided by the Weston Howland Jr. Postdoctoral Scholarship. JM was partially supported by SCEC grant #17177 at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This research was supported by the Southern California Earthquake Center (Contribution No. 8014). SCEC is funded by NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-1033462 and USGS Cooperative Agreement G12AC20038.
    Keywords: Inverse theory ; Waveform inversion ; Body waves ; Earthquake dynamics ; Earthquake source observations ; Seismic instruments
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © The Authors, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of The Royal Astronomical Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Journal International 215 (2018): 942–958, doi:10.1093/gji/ggy316.
    Description: Surface waves recorded by global arrays have proven useful for locating tectonic earthquakes and in detecting slip events depleted in high frequency, such as glacial quakes. We develop a novel method using an aggregation of small- to continental-scale arrays to detect and locate seismic sources with Rayleigh waves at 20–50 s period. The proposed method is a hybrid approach including first dividing a large aperture aggregate array into Delaunay triangular subarrays for beamforming, and then using the resolved surface wave propagation directions and arrival times from the subarrays as data to formulate an inverse problem to locate the seismic sources and their origin times. The approach harnesses surface wave coherence and maximizes resolution of detections by combining measurements from stations spanning the whole U.S. continent. We tested the method with earthquakes, glacial quakes and landslides. The results show that the method can effectively resolve earthquakes as small as ∼M3 and exotic slip events in Greenland. We find that the resolution of the locations is non-uniform with respect to azimuth, and decays with increasing distance between the source and the array when no calibration events are available. The approach has a few advantages: the method is insensitive to seismic event type, it does not require a velocity model to locate seismic sources, and it is computationally efficient. The method can be adapted to real-time applications and can help in identifying new classes of seismic sources.
    Description: WF is currently supported by the Postdoctoral Scholar Program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, with funding provided by the Weston Howland Jr. Postdoctoral Scholarship. This work was supported by National Science Foundation grant EAR-1358520 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2018. This article is posted here by permission of Oxford University Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Journal International 214 (2018): 2224–2235, doi:10.1093/gji/ggy201.
    Description: The key kinematic earthquake source parameters: rupture velocity, duration and area, shed light on earthquake dynamics, provide direct constraints on stress drop, and have implications for seismic hazard. However, for moderate and small earthquakes, these parameters are usually poorly constrained due to limitations of the standard analysis methods. Numerical experiments by Kaneko and Shearer demonstrated that standard spectral fitting techniques can lead to roughly one order of magnitude variation in stress-drop estimates that do not reflect the actual rupture properties even for simple crack models. We utilize these models to explore an alternative approach where we estimate the rupture area directly. For the suite of models, the area averaged static stress drop is nearly constant for models with the same underlying friction law, yet corner-frequency-based stress-drop estimates vary by a factor of 5–10 even for noise-free data. Alternatively, we simulated inversions for the rupture area as parametrized by the second moments of the slip distribution. A natural estimate for the rupture area derived from the second moments is A = πLcWc, where Lc and Wc are the characteristic rupture length and width. This definition yields estimates of stress drop that vary by only 10 per cent between the models but are slightly larger than the true area averaged values. We simulate inversions for the second moments for the various models and find that the area can be estimated well when there are at least 15 available measurements of apparent duration at a variety of take-off angles. The improvement compared to azimuthally averaged corner-frequency-based approaches results from the second moments accounting for directivity and removing the assumption of a circular rupture area, both of which bias the standard approach. We also develop a new method that determines the minimum and maximum values of rupture area that are consistent with a particular data set at the 95 per cent confidence level. For the Kaneko and Shearer models with 20+ randomly distributed observations and ∼10 per cent noise levels, we find that the maximum and minimum bounds on rupture area typically vary by a factor of two and that the minimum stress drop is often more tightly constrained than the maximum.
    Description: This work was supported by USGS NEHRP Award G17AP00029. The research was supported by the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC; Contribution No. 8013). SCEC is funded by NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-1033462 and USGS Cooperative Agreement G12AC20038. YK was supported by both public funding from the Government of New Zealand and the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Rutherford Discovery Fellowship.
    Keywords: Earthquake dynamics ; Earthquake source observations ; Body waves
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: The work is made available under the Creative Commons CCO public domain dedication.. The definitive version was published in PLoS Biology 16 (2018): e2006333, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2006333.
    Description: Our current understanding of biology is heavily based on a small number of genetically tractable model organisms. Most eukaryotic phyla lack such experimental models, and this limits our ability to explore the molecular mechanisms that ultimately define their biology, ecology, and diversity. In particular, marine protists suffer from a paucity of model organisms despite playing critical roles in global nutrient cycles, food webs, and climate. To address this deficit, an initiative was launched in 2015 to foster the development of ecologically and taxonomically diverse marine protist genetic models. The development of new models faces many barriers, some technical and others institutional, and this often discourages the risky, long-term effort that may be required. To lower these barriers and tackle the complexity of this effort, a highly collaborative community-based approach was taken. Herein, we describe this approach, the advances achieved, and the lessons learned by participants in this novel community-based model for research.
    Description: The research efforts, connections, and collaborations described in this paper and protocols.io (https://www.protocols.io/) were supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Marine Microbiology Initiative.
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    Oxford University Press
    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © The Authors, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of The Royal Astronomical Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Journal International 215 (2018): 713–735, doi:10.1093/gji/ggy313.
    Description: Gas flux in volcanic conduits is often associated with long-period oscillations known as seismic tremor (Lesage et al.; Nadeau et al.). In this study, we revisit and extend the ‘magma wagging’and ‘whirling’models for seismic tremor, in order to explore the effects of gas flux on the motion of a magma column surrounded by a permeable vesicular annulus (Jellinek & Bercovici; Bercovici et al.; Liao et al.). We find that gas flux flowing through the annulus leads to a Bernoulli effect, which causes waves on the magma column to become unstable and grow. Specifically, the Bernoulli effects are associated with torques and forces acting on the magma column, increasing its angular momentum and energy. As the displacement of the magma column becomes large due to the Bernoulli effect, frictional drag on the conduit wall decelerates the motions of the column, restoring them to small amplitude. Together, the Bernoulli effect and the damping effect contribute to a self-sustained wagging-and-whirling mechanism that help explain the longevity of long-period seismic tremor.
    Description: This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants EAR-1344538 and EAR-1645057
    Keywords: Physics of magma and magma bodies ; Volcano seismology ; Volcanic gases
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © The Authors, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of The Royal Astronomical Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Journal International 215 (2018): 460–473, doi:10.1093/gji/ggy152.
    Description: In this work, we present a new methodology to predict grain-size distributions from geophysical data. Specifically, electric conductivity and magnetic susceptibility of seafloor sediments recovered from electromagnetic profiling data are used to predict grain-size distributions along shelf-wide survey lines. Field data from the NW Iberian shelf are investigated and reveal a strong relation between the electromagnetic properties and grain-size distribution. The here presented workflow combines unsupervised and supervised machine-learning techniques. Non-negative matrix factorization is used to determine grain-size end-members from sediment surface samples. Four end-members were found, which well represent the variety of sediments in the study area. A radial basis function network modified for prediction of compositional data is then used to estimate the abundances of these end-members from the electromagnetic properties. The end-members together with their predicted abundances are finally back transformed to grain-size distributions. A minimum spatial variation constraint is implemented in the training of the network to avoid overfitting and to respect the spatial distribution of sediment patterns. The predicted models are tested via leave-one-out cross-validation revealing high prediction accuracy with coefficients of determination (R2) between 0.76 and 0.89. The predicted grain-size distributions represent the well-known sediment facies and patterns on the NW Iberian shelf and provide new insights into their distribution, transition and dynamics. This study suggests that electromagnetic benthic profiling in combination with machine learning techniques is a powerful tool to estimate grain-size distribution of marine sediments.
    Description: This work was funded through DFG Research Center/Cluster of Excellence ‘The Ocean in the Earth System’ and was part of MARUM Research Area SD
    Keywords: Neural networks ; Fuzzy logic ; Statistical methods ; Electrical properties ; Magnetic properties ; Marine electromagnetics ; Controlled source electromagnetics (CSEM)
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-26
    Description: © The Author(s), 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in PLoS One 12 (2017): e0188601, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188601.
    Description: Many animals go through one or more metamorphoses during their lives, however, the molecular underpinnings of metamorphosis across diverse species are not well understood. Medusozoa (Cnidaria) is a clade of animals with complex life cycles, these life cycles can include a polyp stage that metamorphoses into a medusa (jellyfish). Medusae are produced through a variety of different developmental mechanisms—in some species polyps bud medusae (Hydrozoa), in others medusae are formed through polyp fission (Scyphozoa), while in others medusae are formed through direct transformation of the polyp (Cubozoa). To better understand the molecular mechanisms that may coordinate these different forms of metamorphosis, we tested two compounds first identified to induce metamorphosis in the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita (indomethacin and 5-methoxy-2-methylindole) on a broad diversity of medusozoan polyps. We discovered that indole-containing compounds trigger metamorphosis across a broad diversity of species. All tested discomedusan polyps metamorphosed in the presence of both compounds, including species representatives of several major lineages within the clade (Pelagiidae, Cyaneidae, both clades of Rhizostomeae). In a cubozoan, low levels of 5-methoxy-2-methylindole reliably induced complete and healthy metamorphosis. In contrast, neither compound induced medusa metamorphosis in a coronate scyphozoan, or medusa production in either hydrozoan tested. Our results support the hypothesis that metamorphosis is mediated by a conserved induction pathway within discomedusan scyphozoans, and possibly cubozoans. However, failure of these compounds to induce metamorphosis in a coronate suggests this induction mechanism may have been lost in this clade, or is convergent between Scyphozoa and Cubozoa.
    Description: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE - 1058262; https://www.nsfgrfp.org/general_resources/about) to RRH. Evo-Devo-Eco Network (IOS # 0955517; http://edenrcn.com/) Research Exchange Funds, awarded to RRH. National Science Foundation Rhode Island Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Graduate Research Fellowship to RRH (DEB-1256695; http://web.uri.edu/rinsfepscor/grad-fellowships/). Brown University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dissertation Development Grant from the Bushnell Research and Education Fund awarded to RRH.
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-26
    Description: Author Posting. © Author(s), 2017. This article is posted here by permission of Oxford University Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Journal International 212 (2018): 1429–1449, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx488.
    Description: We conducted detailed analyses of a global array of trenches, revealing systematic intra- and intertrench variations in plate bending characteristics. The intratrench variations of the Manila and Mariana Trenches were analysed in detail as end-member cases of the relatively young (16–36 Ma) and old (140–160 Ma) subducting plates, respectively. Meanwhile, the intertrench variability was investigated for a global array of additional trenches including the Philippine, Kuril, Japan, Izu-Bonin, Aleutian, Tonga-Kermadec, Middle America, Peru, Chile, Sumatra and Java Trenches. Results of the analysis show that the trench relief (W0) and width (X0) of all systems are controlled primarily by the faulting-reduced elastic thickness near the trench axis (Tme) and affected only slightly by the initial unfaulted thickness (TMe) of the incoming plate. The reduction in Te has caused significant deepening and narrowing of trench valleys. For the cases of relatively young or old plates, the plate age could be a dominant factor in controlling the trench bending shape, regardless the variations in axial loadings. Our calculations also show that the axial loading and stresses of old subducting plates can vary significantly along the trench axis. In contrast, the young subducting plates show much smaller values and variations in axial loading and stresses.
    Description: This work was supported by Chinese Academy of Sciences Grants (Y4SL021001, QYZDY-SSW-DQC005, YZ201325 and YZ201534), National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants (91628301, U1606401, 41376063 and 41706056) and HKSAR Research Grant Council Grants (24601515, 14313816).
    Keywords: Lithospheric flexure ; Subduction zone processes
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-26
    Description: © The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in PLoS One 13 (2018): e0191509, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191509.
    Description: Wintertime convective mixing plays a pivotal role in the sub-polar North Atlantic spring phytoplankton blooms by favoring phytoplankton survival in the competition between light-dependent production and losses due to grazing and gravitational settling. We use satellite and ocean reanalyses to show that the area-averaged maximum winter mixed layer depth is positively correlated with April chlorophyll concentration in the northern Labrador Sea. A simple theoretical framework is developed to understand the relative roles of winter/spring convection and gravitational sedimentation in spring blooms in this region. Combining climate model simulations that project a weakening of wintertime Labrador Sea convection from Arctic sea ice melt with our framework suggests a potentially significant reduction in the initial fall phytoplankton population that survive the winter to seed the region’s spring bloom by the end of the 21st century.
    Description: KB, LB, PJR and LRL were supported by the Office of Science (BER), U. S. Department of Energy as part of the Regional and Global Climate Modelling (RGCM) Program. SCD acknowledges support from NASA Award NNX15AE65G North Atlantic Aerosol and Marine Ecosystem Study (NAAMES).
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    Description: Prion diseases include a number of progressive neuropathies involving conformational changes in cellular prion protein (PrPc) that may be fatal sporadic, familial or infectious. Pathological evidence indicated that neurons affected in prion diseases follow a dying-back pattern of degeneration. However, specific cellular processes affected by PrPc that explain such a pattern have not yet been identified. Results from cell biological and pharmacological experiments in isolated squid axoplasm and primary cultured neurons reveal inhibition of fast axonal transport (FAT) as a novel toxic effect elicited by PrPc. Pharmacological, biochemical and cell biological experiments further indicate this toxic effect involves casein kinase 2 (CK2) activation, providing a molecular basis for the toxic effect of PrPc on FAT. CK2 was found to phosphorylate and inhibit light chain subunits of the major motor protein conventional kinesin. Collectively, these findings suggest CK2 as a novel therapeutic target to prevent the gradual loss of neuronal connectivity that characterizes prion diseases.
    Description: This work was supported by Alzheimer Association New Investigator Research Grant to Promote Diversity NIRGD-11-206379 and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas PIP 112 20150100954 CO (to GP), National Institutes of Health NS066942A and NS096642 (to GM), R01-NS023868 and R01-NS041170 (to STB).
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    Description: Trichoplax adhaerens has only six cell types. The function as well as the structure of crystal cells, the least numerous cell type, presented an enigma. Crystal cells are arrayed around the perimeter of the animal and each contains a birefringent crystal. Crystal cells resemble lithocytes in other animals so we looked for evidence they are gravity sensors. Confocal microscopy showed that their cup-shaped nuclei are oriented toward the edge of the animal, and that the crystal shifts downward under the influence of gravity. Some animals spontaneously lack crystal cells and these animals behaved differently upon being tilted vertically than animals with a typical number of crystal cells. EM revealed crystal cell contacts with fiber cells and epithelial cells but these contacts lacked features of synapses. EM spectroscopic analyses showed that crystals consist of the aragonite form of calcium carbonate. We thus provide behavioral evidence that Trichoplax are able to sense gravity, and that crystal cells are likely to be their gravity receptors. Moreover, because placozoans are thought to have evolved during Ediacaran or Cryogenian eras associated with aragonite seas, and their crystals are made of aragonite, they may have acquired gravity sensors during this early era.
    Description: This research was supported by the intramural research program of the NIH, NINDS.
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    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉The strength of the lithosphere plays a key role in the formation and evolution of tectonic plate boundaries. Localized lithospheric deformation associated with plate tectonics requires a mechanism for weakening across the entire width of the lithosphere, including the strongest cold ductile region. We explore the microphysics of weakening of lithospheric materials, and in particular the coupled evolution of mineral grain size and intragranular defects and their control on lithospheric strength. We propose a model for the interaction between grain-boundaries and dislocation density to reduce the net free energy of grains during dynamic recrystallization (DRX). The driving forces for DRX arise from heterogeneity in dislocation density and grain boundary curvature. Our model shows that grain growth driven by variation in grain boundary curvature can be impeded by variation in dislocation density; this occurs because as the grains grow, to minimize their surface energy, their dislocation density and associated internal energy may increase and offset the driving forces for grain growth. The correlation between grain size and dislocation density can for example arise because the dislocation accumulation in smaller grains is suppressed due to the large stress that is needed to bend and elongate a short dislocation (as dictated by the small grain size), while the larger grains can have long dislocations and reach a steady state dislocation density dictated by the applied stress. In a lithospheric setting, slower grain growth means that it would require less mechanical work to establish weak localized shear zones through grain damage, and retard the healing of previously damaged zones. Furthermore, the competition of two different time-scales - that of grain growth and the dislocation kinetics - can lead to oscillating behavior over 1 to 10 years as the grain size and dislocation density advance towards their steady states. These oscillations are likely to have an effect on the rheology of lithospheric rocks, e.g. their strengthening and weakening through time, and have a potential application to geological processes such as postseismic creep in ductile shear zones.〈/span〉
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    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉Locating and monitoring passive seismic sources provides us important information for studying subsurface rock deformation, injected fluid migration, regional stress conditions as well as fault rupture mechanism. In this paper, we present a novel passive-source monitoring approach using vector-based elastic time-reversal imaging. By solving the elastic wave equation using observed multicomponent records as boundary conditions, we first compute back-propagated elastic wavefields in the subsurface. Then, we separate the extrapolated wavefields into compressional (P-wave) and shear (S-wave) modes using the vector Helmholtz decomposition. A zero-lag cross-correlation imaging condition is applied to the separated pure-mode vector wavefields to produce passive-source images. We compare imaging results using three implementations, i.e., dot-product, energy and power. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the power imaging condition gives us the highest resolution and is less sensitive to the presence of random noises. To capture the propagation of microseismic fracture and earthquake rupture, we modify the traditional zero-lag cross-correlation imaging condition by summing the multiplication of the separated P- and S-wavefields within local time windows, which enables us to capture the temporal and spatial evolution of earthquake rupture. 2D and 3D numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed method is capable of accurately locating point sources, as well as delineating dynamic propagation of hydraulic fracture and earthquake rupture.〈/span〉
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    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉Magnitudes of differential stress in the lithosphere, especially in the crust, are still disputed. Earthquake-based stress drop estimates indicate median values 〈 10 MPa whereas the lateral variation of gravitational potential energy per unit area (〈span〉GPE〈/span〉) across significant relief indicates stress magnitudes of ca. 100 MPa in average across a 100 km thick lithosphere between the Indian lowland and the Tibetan plateau. These standard 〈span〉GPE〈/span〉-based stress estimates correspond to membrane stresses, because they are associated with a deformation that is uniform with depth. We show here with new analytical results that lateral variations in 〈span〉GPE〈/span〉 can also cause bending moments and related bending stresses of several hundreds of MPa. Furthermore, we perform two-dimensional thermo-mechanical numerical simulations (1) to evaluate estimates for membrane and bending stresses based on 〈span〉GPE〈/span〉 variations, (2) to quantify minimum crustal stress magnitudes that are required to maintain the topographic relief between Indian lowland and Tibetan plateau for ca. 10 Ma and (3) to quantify the corresponding relative contribution of crustal strength to the total lithospheric strength. The numerical model includes viscoelastoplastic deformation, gravity and heat transfer. The model configuration is based on density fields from the CRUST1.0 data set and from a geophysically and petrologically constrained density model based on 〈span〉in situ〈/span〉 field campaigns. The numerical results indicate that values of differential stress in the upper crust must be 〉 ca. 180 MPa, corresponding to a friction angle of ca. 10°, to maintain the topographic relief between lowland and plateau for 〉 10 Ma. The relative contribution of crustal strength to total lithospheric strength varies considerably laterally. In the region between lowland and plateau and inside the plateau the depth-integrated crustal strength is approximately equal to the depth-integrated strength of the mantle lithosphere. Simple analytical formulae predicting the lateral variation of depth-integrated stresses agree with numerically calculated stress fields, which show both the accuracy of the numerical results and the applicability of simple, rheology-independent, analytical predictions to highly variable, rheology-dependent, stress fields. Our results indicate that (1) crustal strength can be locally equal to mantle lithosphere strength and that (2) crustal stresses must be at least one order of magnitude larger than median stress drops in order to support the plateau relief over a duration of ca. 10 Ma.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉Scanning magnetometers are increasingly used to characterize the magnetization of mineral grains in rock samples. Up-scaling this measurement technique to large numbers of individual particles is hampered by the intrinsic non-uniqueness of potential-field inversion. Here it is shown that this problem can be circumvented by adding tomographic information that determines the location of the possible field sources. Standard potential theory is used to prove a uniqueness theorem which completely characterizes the mathematical background of the corresponding source-localized inversion. It exactly resolves under which conditions a potential field measurement on a surface can be uniquely decomposed into signals from the different source regions. The intrinsic non-uniqueness of potential field inversion prevents that the source distribution inside the tomographically outlined regions can be recovered, but the potential field of each region is uniquely defined. For scanning magnetometers in rock magnetism, this result implies that magnetic dipole vectors of large numbers of individual magnetic particles can be reliably reconstructed from surface scans of the magnetic field, if the particle positions are independently determined. This provides an incentive to improve scanning methods for future paleomagnetic applications.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉The most common earthquake forecasting models assume that the magnitude of the next earthquake is independent from the past. This feature severely limits the capability to forecast large earthquakes with high probabilities. Here we investigate empirically on the magnitude-independence assumption, exploring if: i) background and triggered earthquakes have the same frequency-magnitude distribution, ii) variations of seismicity in the space-time-magnitude domain encode some information on the future earthquakes size. For this purpose, and to verify the stability of the findings, we consider seismic catalogues covering different space-time-magnitude windows, such as the Alto Tiberina Near Fault Observatory (TABOO), the California and Japanese seismic catalogues. Our approach is inspired by the nearest-neighbour method proposed by Baiesi & Paczuski (2004) and elaborated by Zaliapin et al. (2008) to distinguish between triggered and background earthquakes. Here we implement the same metric-based correlation to identify the precursory seismicity of any triggered earthquake; this allows us to analyse, for each triggered earthquake, the space-time-magnitude distribution of the seismicity that likely contributed to its occurrence. Our results show that the magnitude-independence assumption holds reasonably well in all catalogues, with a remarkable exception that is consistent with a previous independent study; this departure from the magnitude-independence assumption shows that larger events tend to nucleate at a higher distance from the ongoing sequence. We also notice that the reliability of this assumption may depend on the spatial scale considered; it holds for seismic catalogues of large areas, but we identify possible departures in small areas, reflecting different ways to release locally seismic energy. Finally, we come across an important issue that may lead to misleading results in similar studies, i.e., if a seismic catalogue appears overall complete above a fixed magnitude threshold, it may still yield spurious signals into the analysis. Specifically, we show that some significant departures from the magnitude-independence assumption do not survive when considering spatiotemporal variations of the magnitude of completeness.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉Vp/Vs models provide important complementary information to Vp and Vs models, relevant to lithology, rock damage, partial melting, water saturation, etc. However, seismic tomography using body-wave traveltime data from local or regional earthquakes does not constrain Vp/Vs well due to the different resolution of Vp and Vs models, with the Vp models usually better constrained than Vs. Since surface-wave data are most sensitive to Vs, which leads to complementary strengths with respect to body-wave data, we jointly invert body- and surface-wave data to better resolve the Vp/Vs models. In order to show the robustness of our joint inversion method, we compare the results to other approaches, including dividing Vp by Vs models and Vp/Vs parameterization with body-wave or both body- and surface-wave data, using synthetic data and real data from the southern California plate boundary region. We confirm that Vp/Vs models from body-wave inversion obtained by division tend to include artifacts, even when both Vp and Vs models seem reasonable. The joint inversion with Vp/Vs parameterization is found to improve the Vp/Vs ratio model significantly and the resultant Vp/Vs model shows more geologically consistent features, such as high Vp/Vs along fault traces at shallow depths likely indicating fault-related damage. The Vp/Vs model also exhibits contrasts at intermediate depths along the Peninsular Range compositional boundary, and high Vp/Vs in the lower crust near the Salton Sea region correlated with high heat flow and may indicate partial melting. The improved Vp/Vs as well as individual Vp and Vs models are useful for earthquake relocation, high-resolution Moho depth imaging, and interpretation of other data and tectonic evolution in the region.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉Interpretation of surface fault scarps and palaeoseismic trenches is a key component of estimating fault slip rates, earthquake recurrence rates and maximum magnitudes for hazard assessments. Often these analyses rely on the assumption that successive earthquakes all breached the surface and that the ruptures are recorded topographically, or by the deposits exposed in a trench. The M〈sub〉〈span〉w〈/span〉〈/sub〉7.2 1992 Suusamyr earthquake, Kyrgyzstan, is an apparently problematic case for such analyses because its ruptures show significant displacement but are only mapped as having broken the surface along small, disparate portions of the fault. Here we present the results of surveys conducted along the Suusamyr Fault to establish whether that is the case. Two sets of ruptures were identified following the earthquake. They are unusually short for their displacement and are separated by a 25 km gap. Using satellite imagery, high-resolution digital elevation models and palaeoseismic trenching we first reassess the distribution of the 1992 ruptures and then reconstruct the Holocene earthquake record to establish the extent to which the 1992 earthquake is representative of the rupture behaviour of this fault. We find evidence for at least two prehistoric surface rupturing earthquakes in the Holocene: one ∼3 ka and one 〉8 ka that, along with the modern event, gives recurrence intervals of ∼3 kyr and ∼5 kyr. Within spatial gaps between segments of the 1992 ruptures there are clear prehistoric surface ruptures and the ruptures in each prehistoric earthquake were discontinuous. We conclude that there is significant variability in the surface rupture pattern of successive earthquakes on the Suusamyr Fault, with implications for the completeness of palaeoseismic records obtained from thrust scarps.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉We provide a six-component (6-C) polarization model for 〈span〉P〈/span〉-, 〈span〉SV〈/span〉-, 〈span〉SH〈/span〉-, Rayleigh-, and Love-waves both inside an elastic medium as well as at the free surface. It is shown that single-station 6-C data comprised of three components of rotational motion and three components of translational motion provide the opportunity to unambiguously identify the wave type, propagation direction, and local 〈span〉P〈/span〉- and 〈span〉S〈/span〉-wave velocities at the receiver location by use of polarization analysis. To extract such information by conventional processing of three-component (3-C) translational data would require large and dense receiver arrays. The additional rotational components allow the extension of the rank of the coherency matrix used for polarization analysis. This enables us to accurately determine the wave type and wave parameters (propagation direction and velocity) of seismic phases, even if more than one wave is present in the analysis time window. This is not possible with standard, pure-translational 3-C recordings. In order to identify modes of vibration and to extract the accompanying wave parameters, we adapt the multiple signal classification algorithm (MUSIC). Due to the strong nonlinearity of the MUSIC estimator function, it can be used to detect the presence of specific wave types within the analysis time window at very high resolution. We show how the extracted wavefield properties can be used, in a fully automated way, to separate the wavefield into its different wave modes using only a single 6-C recording station. As an example, we apply the method to remove surface wave energy while preserving the underlying reflection signal and to suppress energy originating from undesired directions, such as side-scattered waves.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉The Sentinel-1 mission comprises two synthetic aperture radar satellites, each with a 12 day orbital repeat, orbiting 6 days apart within a narrow tube. The mission design promises the ability to respond quickly to earthquakes with InSAR, and to facilitate production of interferograms with good interferometric correlation globally. We report on our efforts to study global seismicity using Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide-Swath data between April 2015 and December 2016. We select 35 potentially detectable terrestrial earthquakes in the range 5.5 ≤ 〈span〉Mw〈/span〉 ≤ 7.8 on the basis of their locations, depths and magnitudes, and process the first post-event interferogram with the shortest possible time-span for each using the ISCE software. We evaluate each interferogram for earthquake deformation signals by visual inspection. We can identify deformation signals attributable to earthquakes in 18 of these interferograms (51%); a further six interferograms (17%) have ambiguous interferometric phase affected by tropospheric noise. 11 events (31%) could not be identified from their interferograms. The majority of these failed detections were due to interferogram decorrelation, particularly apparent for earthquakes that occurred between 15°N and 15°S, where climate conditions promote dense vegetation. The majority of the ambiguous interferograms are affected by tropospheric noise, suggesting that techniques to mitigate such noise could improve detection performance. The largest event we do not detect with Sentinel-1 data is a 〈span〉Mw〈/span〉7.0 earthquake that occurred in Vanuatu in April 2016; we also fail to detect the 2016 〈span〉Mw〈/span〉6.2 Kurayoshi earthquake in one out of two possible 24-day interferograms. We propose these as upper and lower estimates on the magnitude of completeness for earthquakes studied with Sentinel-1 data; to raise the magnitude of completeness we suggest that more frequent (e.g. six day) recurrence may be necessary in low latitude areas.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉The correct estimation of site-specific attenuation is crucial for the assessment of seismic hazard. Downhole instruments provide in this context valuable information to constrain attenuation directly from data. In this study, we apply an interferometric approach to this problem by deconvolving seismic motions recorded at depth with those recorded at the surface. In doing so, incident and surface-reflected waves can be separated. We apply this technique not only to earthquake data but also to recordings of ambient vibrations. We compute the transfer function between incident and surface-reflected waves in order to infer frequency dependent quality factors for S-waves. The method is applied to a 87 m deep borehole sensor and a co-located surface instrument situated at a hard-rock site in West Bohemia/Vogtland, Germany. We show that the described method provides comparable attenuation estimates using either earthquake data or ambient noise for frequencies between 5-15 Hz. Moreover, a single hour of noise recordings seems to be sufficient to yield stable deconvolution traces and quality factors, thus, offering a fast and easy way to derive attenuation estimates from borehole recordings even in low to mid seismicity regions.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉Injection of CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 into tight reservoirs produces both gravity change and ground deformation, which provide great opportunities for more accurate coupled inverse modelling. In this study, we incorporate signals generated from several synthetic models to estimate the CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 distribution in the reservoir. A relationship is found that connects density variations to volumetric changes associated with injected CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉, taking advantage of a common set of model parameters for both gravitational and geo-mechanical inverse modelling. This is achieved by assuming that the injected CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 increases pressure in the reservoir, which in turn generates extra porosity that is then filled in by the CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 mass in the generated space. Tikhonov regularization, supported by the Generalized Cross Validation (GCV) technique for finding the optimized model, is used to solve the ill-posed inverse problems. The results indicate that with a combination of gravity and ground deformation monitoring, the uncertainty and ambiguity in gravimetric modelling due to high levels of noise is mitigated by implementing highly accurate ground deformation measurements, which normally have a higher signal to noise ratio.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉As the number of seismic sensors grows, it is becoming increasingly difficult for analysts to pick seismic phases manually and comprehensively, yet such efforts are fundamental to earthquake monitoring. Despite years of improvements in automatic phase picking, it is difficult to match the performance of experienced analysts. A more subtle issue is that different seismic analysts may pick phases differently, which can introduce bias into earthquake locations. We present a deep-neural-network-based arrival-time picking method called ”PhaseNet” that picks the arrival times of both P and S waves. Deep neural networks have recently made rapid progress in feature learning, and with sufficient training, have achieved super-human performance in many applications. PhaseNet uses three-component seismic waveforms as input and generates probability distributions of P arrivals, S arrivals, and noise as output. We engineer PhaseNet such that peaks in the probability distributions provide accurate arrival times for both P and S waves. PhaseNet is trained on the prodigious available data set provided by analyst-labeled P and S arrival times from the Northern California Earthquake Data Center. The dataset we use contains more than seven hundred thousand waveform samples extracted from over thirty years of earthquake recordings. We demonstrate that PhaseNet achieves much higher picking accuracy and recall rate than existing methods when applied to the waveforms of known earthquakes, which has the potential to increase the number of S-wave observations dramatically over what is currently available. This will enable both improved locations and improved shear wave velocity models.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉The low frequency earthquakes (LFEs) that constitute tectonic tremor are often inferred to be slow: to have durations of 0.2 to 0.5 s, a factor of 10 to 100 longer than those of typical 〈span〉MW〈/span〉 1-2 earthquakes. Here we examine LFEs near Parkfield, CA in order to assess several proposed explanations for LFEs’ long durations. We determine LFE rupture areas and location distributions using a new approach, similar to directivity analysis, where we examine how signals coming from various locations within LFEs’ finite rupture extents create differences in the apparent source time functions recorded at various stations. We use synthetic ruptures to determine how much the LFE signals recorded at each station would be modified by spatial variations of the source-station travel time within the rupture area given various possible rupture diameters, and then compare those synthetics with the data. Our synthetics show that the methodology can identify inter-station variations created by heterogeneous slip distributions or complex rupture edges, and thus lets us estimate LFE rupture extents for unilateral or bilateral ruptures. To obtain robust estimates of the sources’ similarity across stations, we stack signals from thousands of LFEs, using an empirical Green’s function approach to isolate the LFEs’ apparent source time functions from the path effects. Our analysis of LFEs in Parkfield implies that LFEs’ apparent source time functions are similar across stations at frequencies up to 8 to 16 Hz, depending on the family. The inter-station coherence observed at these relatively high frequencies, or short wavelengths (down to 0.2 to 0.5 km), suggest that LFEs in each of the 7 families examined occur on asperities. They are clustered in patches with sub-1-km diameters. The individual LFEs’ rupture diameters are estimated to be smaller than 1.1 km for all families, and smaller than 0.5 km and 1 km for the two shallowest families, which were previously found to have 0.2-s durations. Coupling the diameters with the durations suggests that it is possible to model these 〈span〉MW〈/span〉 1-2 LFEs with earthquake-like rupture speeds: around 70% of the shear wave speed. However, that rupture speed matches the data only at the edge of our uncertainty estimates for the family with highest coherence. The data for that family are better matched if LFEs have rupture velocities smaller than 40% of the shear wave speed, or if LFEs have different rupture dynamics. They could have long rise times, contain composite sub-ruptures, or have slip distributions that persist from event to event.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉On June 24, 2015, a 230,000 cubic metre landslide slid into the triangle bayou at the intersection of the Yangtze and Daning Rivers and generated a river tsunami that ran up 6.2 metres on the opposite shoreline at Wushan town. The slope failure and resulting waves killed two people and damaged many shipping facilities. Based on field surveys and eyewitness observations, we apply the ‘Tsunami Squares’ method to model the Hongyanzi landslide and its generated waves. Landslide simulations indicate a maximum impact velocity of ∼16 m/s that matches well with an eyewitness video. The computed post-slide mass stopped on the near riverbed with a shape fitting the observed geological profile. Tsunami simulations reveal a large region of wave impacts that coincide with the observed runup heights. The successful reproduction of the dynamics of this landslide-generated river tsunami emphasizes the capacity and efficiency of Tsunami Squares modeling in emergency reaction and risk assessment.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Hyperspectral systems that image drill core can capture detail mineralogical information at the millimeter scale and thus have the potential to enable investigators to characterize shale composition and heterogeneity, complementing the direct chemical and x-ray diffraction analysis of core samples and guiding detailed sampling. This method provides insight into petrophysical and geomechanical properties because these properties are significantly correlated to rock composition. We tested this approach on a continuous long core from the shale sequence of the Horn River Group in the Horn River Basin, British Columbia, sampled at a spacing of 1 m (40 in.) and analyzed for geochemical composition. These data enable the calibration of spectral imagery to rock composition and specifically predict total organic carbon (TOC) and the abundance of SiO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉, Al〈sub〉2〈/sub〉O〈sub〉3〈/sub〉, K〈sub〉2〈/sub〉O, and CaO. We then imaged nine samples from the Woodford Shale from the Permian Basin, Texas, for a blind test to assess the predictive models. The models were then used to predict TOC and geochemical data over detailed imagery of 300 m (984 ft) of Horn River Group shale core and portray their spatial variability downhole as images and profiles. In its simplest form, hyperspectral imagery can be enhanced to highlight fabric in shale core that otherwise is difficult to visualize because of low brightness. In addition, we show that spectral imagery of shale can also be processed to either convey mineralogical (quartz, clay, and carbonate) or geochemical information. The resulting views can readily be used to guide the selection of samples and may provide tools for scaling reservoir properties from individual plugs to reservoir volumes.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Considerable attention has been directed to the Devonian Horn River Formation in western Canada with respect to geochemical evaluation of gas-generation and storage potential. Because organic geochemical analyses are not always useful for characterizing the type and amount of original organic matter, we surmise the original kerogen type and original hydrogen index (HIo) and subsequently estimate a reliable original total organic carbon (TOCo) based on a combination of inorganic and organic geochemical data. Productivity (SiO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 and Ba) and terrestrial input (Al〈sub〉2〈/sub〉O〈sub〉3〈/sub〉, Hf, Nb, and Zr) proxies are used to estimate original kerogen types, which suggest that the Evie and Muskwa Members formed under conditions of high productivity and minor terrestrial input. These members also formed under reducing conditions, as indicated by the redox proxies (Mo, U, and Th/U). Under such conditions, primarily type II kerogen was preserved.By considering the fraction of biogenic silica, the estimated HIo values (400–500 mg hydrocarbon/g total organic carbon [TOC]) for the middle Otter Park Member are lower than that for Evie and Muskwa Members and higher than the upper and lower Otter Park Member. The stronger correlation between TOCo and trace elements suggests that HIo is useful for reconstructing the coherent variation in TOCo. Based on the original kerogen type and TOCo, the gas-generation and storage potentials of the Evie, middle Otter Park, and Muskwa Members are higher than those of other members. The source-rock potential is excellent for the Evie Member with an approximately 75% difference between TOCo and measured present-day TOC.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉The global Precambrian–Cambrian system includes an important series of hydrocarbon-bearing strata. However, because rocks of this age are typically deeply buried, few petroleum exploration breakthroughs have been made, and the presence of source rocks remains somewhat controversial. Recently, commercial condensate and gas were discovered from the deep (∼6900 m [∼22,600 ft]) Zhongshen 1C (ZS1C) exploratory well drilled in the Tazhong uplift of the Tarim Basin, China, leading to renewed interest in the development of Cambrian source rocks in the basin. On the basis of outcrop reconnaissance and sample testing from around the Tarim Basin, we show that a set of high-quality source rocks were developed within the lower Cambrian Yuertusi Formation (Є〈sub〉1〈/sub〉y), at the base of the lower Cambrian. These rocks are black shales and typically have a total organic carbon content between 2% and 6% but extending as high as 17% in selected regions. This marine sequence is 10–15 m (33–49 ft) thick in some outcrops along the margins of the basin. Seismic data indicate that these high-quality source rocks may cover an area as large as 260,000 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 (100,000 mi〈sup〉2〈/sup〉). Their main organic parent material was benthic multicellular algae. On the basis of high-temperature thermal simulations conducted on these source rocks, we show that the gas composition and carbon isotopes from the ZS1C well are similar to the products generated at a thermal evolution stage corresponding to a vitrinite reflectance of between 2.2% and 2.5%. Late-stage natural gas accumulated within these rocks over time. The δ〈sup〉34〈/sup〉S correlation of organic sulfur compounds in the condensate with Cambrian sulfates provides further evidence for a Є〈sub〉1〈/sub〉y source rock origin of the ZS1C condensate and gas. The Cambrian dolomites in association with a salt seal exhibit favorable geological conditions for large-scale hydrocarbon accumulation. A new set of deep exploration strata can, therefore, be developed, guiding future deep Cambrian hydrocarbon exploration in the Tarim Basin.〈/span〉
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    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉The effects of reservoir heterogeneity on the development of submarine channel fields are still poorly understood because of lack of direct evidence for fluid flow. This study uses integrated well logs and three-dimensional seismic data from the Niger Delta Basin to characterize the previously undocumented spatial distribution of shale units and permeability contrasts within a submarine channel system. Combining these data with four-dimensional (4-D) seismic data facilitates the exploration of the controls of reservoir heterogeneity on fluid flow during development. The results show that the studied submarine channel system consists of multiple vertically stacked channel complex sets (CCSs) from CCS1 (oldest) to CCS5 (youngest), which are separated from each other by continuous shale barriers. The CCS2–CCS4, which are located in the stratigraphic middle of the channel system, are the main development layers because of their higher permeabilities and lower permeability contrasts. The 4-D seismic responses validate that the presence of shale barriers between vertically adjacent CCSs can hinder the flow of fluids between CCSs. Fluid flow between vertically adjacent CCSs barely occurs except in localized erosional locations where the sand fills of different CCSs are vertically connected. Each CCS consists of multiple individual channels, which can be separated by inclined shale baffles if they laterally migrate in one direction. As the 4-D seismic responses demonstrate, such inclined shale baffles can hinder fluid flow between adjacent individual channels and help to form multiple narrow flow paths in map view. The absence of inclined shale baffles also produces prominent permeability contrasts within each CCS, which are characterized by relatively high–permeability zones that are parallel to the channel axis. Comparison of this permeability distribution and the 4-D seismic responses shows that injected water preferentially sweeps along relatively high–permeability zones, which can help to form single wide flow paths with higher sweep efficiency or single narrow flow paths with lower sweep efficiency.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Source-to-sink analyses show that northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Wilcox Group siliciclastic deep-water systems are linked to transport of sediments from the Laramide tectonic belt into the deep basin. Less is known, however, about southern GOM sedimentation. New drilling and discoveries in the Mexican deep water have generated considerable interest since the opening of Mexico to international exploration. To investigate Paleogene deposition in Mexico’s offshore areas, a three-phased approach was employed: (1) seismic mapping of deep-water depocenters, (2) regional stratigraphic analysis of potential basin entry points, and (3) prediction of submarine-fan dimensions using empirical scaling relationships. Isochore and structural mapping of the Wilcox depocenters used available well and seismic data. Potential basin entry points were identified by evaluation of Wilcox fluvial–deltaic systems and tectonic elements. Empirical scaling relationships previously established between fluvial and deep-water segments provide first-order predictions of submarine-fan dimensions.Paleogene Wilcox source-to-sink systems of the greater GOM basin change north to south as a function of varied tectonics and sedimentary accommodation. The United States sector was a passive margin: continental-scale drainage systems fed a broad, gently dipping shelf. By contrast, the southern GOM basin was a tectonically active margin: smaller-scale fluvial systems sourced from the Hidalgoan uplands flowed directly into foreland basins located on the slope. Results presented here indicate that several systems rimming the southern GOM were able to effectively transfer sediment from the mountain belt into the basin. Regional observations and semiquantitative predictions of fan dimensions provide a context for future detailed work based on new well and seismic information.〈/span〉
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    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Sequence stratigraphy based on wire-line logs, cores, and outcrops is entering its fourth decade of mainstream usage in industry and academia. The technique has proved to be an invaluable tool for improving stratigraphic analyses in both clastic and carbonate settings. Here we present a simple quantitative technique to support sequence stratigraphic interpretations in clastic shallow marine systems. The technique uses two pieces of data that are readily available from every subsurface field or outcrop study: (1) parasequence thickness (T) and (2) parasequence sandstone fraction (SF). The key assumptions are that parasequence thickness can be used as a proxy for accommodation at the time of deposition and parasequence sandstone fraction can be used as a proxy for sediment supply. This means that quantitative proxies for rates of accommodation development and sediment supply can be acquired from wire-line logs, cores, and outcrop data. Vertical trends in parasequence thickness divided by sandstone fraction (T/SF) approximate trends expected in systems tracts for changes in ratios of rate of accommodation development to rate of sediment supply. The technique, termed “TSF analysis,” can also be applied at lower-order sequence and composite sequence scales. It provides a quantitative and objective methodology for determining rank and order of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and units. Absolute T/SF values can be used to determine shoreline, stacked shoreline, and shelf-margin trajectories. Four case studies are presented, which demonstrate the robustness of the technique across a range of different data sets. Implications and potential future applications of TSF analyses are discussed.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉The Eagle Ford Formation has attracted considerable industry attention as a self-sourced unconventional shale reservoir. The productive interval in the Eagle Ford Formation is the transgressive systems tract, which contains parasequences whose lithologic content varies upward with increasing proportions of limestones. Optimum success in both exploration and production depends on the adequate characterization of fracture systems as a function of lithology. The outcrops present along US Highway 90 in Val Verde and Terrell Counties, Texas, provide considerable insight into the regional natural fracture system of the Eagle Ford Formation. Fracture-orientation analysis reveals two sets of conjugate hybrid shear fractures and two sets of regional fractures. Abutting relationships suggest that hybrid shear fractures formed first, followed by the thoroughgoing northeast-striking fracture set, and finally by a northwest-striking set, which tends to be confined to individual mechanical units. The orientation of these fractures suggests that they formed during post-Laramide stress relaxation and progressive exhumation. Spacing-frequency distribution analysis of the fracture population reveals a mature hypersaturated fracture system that likely formed at depth by overburden load and/or fluid pressure near maximum burial. Our results indicate that the Eagle Ford Formation displays a well-developed fracture network regionally distributed in the Val Verde Basin, and likely present in the productive Eagle Ford play. These observations provide evidence for pathways and vertical connectivity for potential fluid pathways throughout the Eagle Ford Formation.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉We document a novel approach to balanced three-dimensional structural restoration based on an adaptation of the GeoChron model. Conventionally, the GeoChron model defines a transformation of a geological model to a flattened space (U-V-T), with paleogeographic coordinates defined by the horizontal axes (U-V) and geologic time on the vertical axis (T). In our new balanced structural restoration scheme, the complete stratigraphy is restored using a transformation constrained only by the datum horizon. Scaling the vertical “T” axis to depth in a manner that preserves volume or layer thickness results in a geometric restoration that approximately minimizes strain globally. This restoration provides a geometrically plausible representation of the geologic structure at the time when the datum horizon was deposited. Restoration is independent of mechanical rock properties and is thus most applicable to regions in which mechanical rock properties are approximately homogeneous. Restoration kinematics may be constrained by growth strata if present.We validate the method with kinematic forward models and a laboratory sandbox model and apply it to two natural examples to demonstrate its capabilities for model validation and palinspastic restoration.We identify four criteria for assessing the validity of a structural model using the results of restoration: (1) anomalous fault throw, (2) timing of fault activity, (3) fault compliance, and (4) restoration strain. Analysis of the sandbox results and limitations of volume conservation derived from uncertainties in compaction states suggest accuracy of the method to be in the 5%–20% range.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉The pore structure of shale has a significant effect on hydrocarbon migration and the long-term gas supply of shale gas wells. The present study investigates the spontaneous imbibition characteristics to evaluate the pore connectivity and wettability of marine Longmaxi shale samples from the southeastern Chongqing area and continental Yanchang shale samples from the Ordos Basin. The pore-size distribution obtained from N〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 adsorption and mercury intrusion porosimetry, field emission–scanning electron microscopy, and focused ion beam–scanning electron microscopy photos are used to interpret the imbibition behaviors. Our results show that the difference in dominant pore type between marine and continental samples, which is dominated by thermal maturity, controls on their imbibition behaviors as well as their wettability. Organic matter (OM) pores within Yanchang samples are poorly developed because of their low thermal maturity, and a large amount of water-wet inorganic pores are preserved in these samples because of relatively weak compaction. Oil-wet OM pores are well developed in Longmaxi samples with higher thermal maturity, and inorganic pores have been largely eliminated because of strong compaction. The low pore connectivity to water for both the Longmaxi and Yanchang samples is indicated by the low water imbibition slopes. Furthermore, the more oil-wet property of the Longmaxi samples and more water-wet characteristics of the Yanchang samples are obtained by comparing the directional water/oil imbibition slopes. In addition, the positive meaning of quartz in the protection of pore spaces is found in both the Longmaxi and the Yanchang samples used in this study.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Multiple natural gas fields have been discovered in the Baiyun depression and the adjoining Panyu lower uplift in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea. The natural gases are associated with condensate and are characterized by relatively heavy carbon isotopes, with methane and ethane δ〈sup〉13〈/sup〉C values ranging from –44.2‰ to –33.6‰ and –30.0‰ to –25.4‰, respectively. Nearly all methane and ethane are derived from oil-prone type II kerogen in the Wenchang Formation source rock, whereas the heavy hydrocarbon gases (propane, butanes, and pentanes) are derived from both the Wenchang and Enping (type III kerogen) Formations, based on an integrated comparison of carbon isotopic compositions of the natural gases, typical type I/II and type III kerogen-derived gases, and the Enping and Wenchang kerogens. The gases from the eastern parts of the Baiyun depression and the Panyu lower uplift mainly originate from secondary oil cracking and primary kerogen cracking, respectively. The gases from the northern slope of the Baiyun depression are a mixture of oil-cracking and kerogen-cracking gases. Both oil-cracking and kerogen-cracking gases were mainly generated from the Wenchang Formation source rock in the maturity range of 1.5%–2.5% vitrinite reflectance, with a corresponding present-day depth range of 5400–6500 m (17,700–21,300 ft). The apparent contribution of the Wenchang Formation to the discovered gas accumulations demonstrates that it is the most important source rock in the area, instead of the Enping Formation. The search for more gas derived from oil cracking will be the next natural gas exploration direction in the Baiyun depression.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉The northern Appalachian Basin depocenter of Pennsylvania represents one of the most economically important hydrocarbon-producing areas in the United States, yet the thermal conditions that promoted hydrocarbon formation within the basin are only marginally constrained. The prolific coal, oil, and natural gas fields of Pennsylvania are the direct result of thermal maturation of once deeply buried organic-rich sediment. Understanding how, why, and where thermal maturation occurred in the Appalachian Basin requires high-quality heat flow and thermal conductivity measurements, as well as paleotemperature estimates and basin modeling. To improve the understanding of heat flow, we present, to our knowledge, the first direct measurements of (1) thermal conductivity on Devonian core samples and (2) equilibrium temperature versus depth logs for the northern Appalachian Basin depocenter. Results from three well sites demonstrate that heat flow is conductive and nearly uniform, averaging 34 ± 2.5 mW/m〈sup〉2〈/sup〉, with an average thermal gradient of 29 ± 4°C/km. The new heat-flow measurements are significantly lower (30%–50% less) than previously published estimates that used nonequilibrium bottomhole temperature values and empirically derived thermal conductivity estimates. Our analysis indicates that previous studies correctly estimated the regional thermal gradient using bottomhole temperatures but overestimated heat flow in this region by as much as 50% because of inaccurate extrapolation of thermal conductivity. The results highlight the importance of directly measuring thermal conductivity to accurately quantify heat flow in deep sedimentary basins. Ultimately, additional paleotemperature data are necessary to improve our understanding of Appalachian Basin thermal evolution.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Shale samples of the Marcellus Shale from a well drilled in northeastern Pennsylvania were used to study diagenetic effects on the mineral and organic matter and their impact on petrophysical response. We analyzed an interval of high gamma ray and anomalously low electrical resistivity from a high thermal maturity (mean maximum vitrinite reflectance 〉 4%) part of the shale‐gas play. A suite of microanalytical techniques was used to study features of the shale down to the nanoscale and assess the level of thermal alteration of the mineral and organic phases.The samples are organic rich, with total organic carbon contents of 3–7 wt. %; the vast majority of the organic matter was identified as highly porous pyrobitumen. Matrix porosity is also present, especially within the clay aggregates and at the interface between rigid clasts and clay minerals.Mineral- and organic-based thermal maturity indices suggest that during burial the sediment had been exposed to temperatures as high as 285°C (545°F). Under these conditions, the residual, migrated organic matter assumed a partially crystalline habit as confirmed by the identification of turbostratic structures via electron microscopy imaging. Experimental dielectric measurements on organic matter–rich samples confirm that the anomalous electrical properties observed in the wire-line logs can be ascribed to the presence of an electrically conductive interconnected network of partially graphitized organic matter. The preservation of porosity suggests that this organic network can contribute not only to the electrical properties but also to the gas flow properties within the Marcellus Shale.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Understanding natural fracture networks in the subsurface is highly challenging, as direct one-dimensional borehole data are unable to reflect their spatial complexity, and three-dimensional seismic data are limited in spatial resolution to resolve individual meter-scale fractures.Here, we present a prototype workflow for automated fracture detection along horizontal scan lines using terrestrial light detection and ranging (t-LIDAR). Data are derived from a kilometer-scale Pennsylvanian (locally upper Carboniferous) reservoir outcrop analog in the Lower Saxony Basin, northwestern Germany. The workflow allows the t-LIDAR data to be integrated into conventional reservoir-modeling software for characterizing natural fracture networks with regard to orientation and spatial distribution. The analysis outlines the lateral reorientation of fractures from a west–southwest/east–northeast strike, near a normal fault with approximately 600 m (∼1970 ft) displacement, toward an east–west strike away from the fault. Fracture corridors, 10–20 m (33–66 ft) wide, are present in unfaulted rocks with an average fracture density of 3.4–3.9 m〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉 (11.2–12.8 ft〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉). A reservoir-scale digital outcrop model was constructed as a basis for data integration. The fracture detection and analysis serve as input for a stochastically modeled discrete fracture network, demonstrating the transferability of the derived data into standard hydrocarbon exploration-and-production-industry approaches.The presented t-LIDAR workflow provides a powerful tool for quantitative spatial analysis of outcrop analogs, in terms of natural fracture network characterization, and enriches classical outcrop investigation techniques. This study may contribute to a better application of outcrop analog data to naturally fractured reservoirs in the subsurface, reducing uncertainties in the characterization of this reservoir type at depth.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Using cores, well logs, and other borehole data, the results of this study show that the shallow-water lacustrine delta has its own unique depositional characteristics of the third member of Oligocene Dongying Formation (Ed〈sub〉3〈/sub〉) in the Baxian sag, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China. During the Ed〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 stage, the rift–thermal basin subsidence transition stage, the paleoslope was divided into multilevel slopes by faults along the Wen’an slope with slope angles from approximately 0.19° to 2.02°. The paleogeographic conditions, low-discharge channel, and low accommodation controlled the sedimentary characteristics. The distributions of the shallow-water delta system were controlled by multilevel flexure slopes. The delta plain was distributed on the first- and second-level slope belts, and the delta front was distributed on the third-level slope belt. The high-sinuosity fluvial channel of the delta plain was the dominant facies in the whole shallow-water delta. Most sand was deposited in these channels along the second-level slope belt. Therefore, not enough sand was present to be transported into the lake (shallow water) to form mouth bars in the delta front. Therefore, mouth bars of the shallow-water delta front were few, and the sand beds were thin. Additionally, no more sand was available to be supplied right along to deep lake, the lacustrine basin was small, and there was insufficient accommodation and sand to develop a subaqueous fan in the delta front.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉Improvement of global 3D Earth density and velocity models is based in part on measurements of Earth’s normal mode eigenfrequencies and splitting function coefficients. Despite many methods developed inconsistency in measurements still exists and it is difficult to understand which results are more precise, that is which methods introduce less systematic biases in the measurements. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to test the performances of typically used techniques in low-frequency normal mode studies: the optimal sequence estimation stacking method and the autoregressive method in the frequency domain, where validation of the estimates is performed with the phasor walkout method. Motivations for their utilization are their easy and fast implementation and their accurate performances when it comes to eigenfrequency estimates. For this purpose, we first perform the analysis with synthetic seismograms in order to evaluate how the station distributions and noise levels impact the estimates of eigenfrequencies and structure coefficients. Synthetic seismograms are calculated for a 3D realistic Earth model, which includes Earth’s rotation as well as ellipticity and other lateral heterogeneities. They were computed by means of normal mode summation and a perturbation theory for modes up to 1 mHz. The three methods above are also applied to long-period seismometer and superconducting gravimeter data recorded after six earthquakes of magnitude greater than 8.3. Finally, our study shows that the optimal sequence estimation is sensitive to the station distribution under the noise influence, while the autoregressive method for frequency estimation gives us reasonable estimates within the estimated error bars. Moreover, we present new estimates of eigenfrequencies and Q-factors for 〈sub〉0〈/sub〉S〈sub〉2, 0〈/sub〉S〈sub〉3, 2〈/sub〉S〈sub〉1〈/sub〉 and 〈sub〉3〈/sub〉S〈sub〉1〈/sub〉 multiplets. A new value for the 〈span〉c〈/span〉〈sub〉20〈/sub〉 structure coefficient of 〈sub〉0〈/sub〉S〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 multiplet −0.7233 ± 0.0623 μHz is obtained.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Summary〈/div〉We propose a novel approach to compute the gravity field due to density anomaly in both outside and inside of the solid Earth with high accuracy and efficiency. The high accuracy comes from the direct employment of the analytic gravitation solution between any point on a two-dimensional (2D) plane in the horizontal direction and individual mass cubes. The high computational efficiency comes from two aspects: 1, the application of the highly efficient 2D discrete convolution algorithm; and 2, a newly developed algorithm for the optimized computation of the weight coefficient matrix. Numerical examples for applying to compare with analytical solutions demonstrated its excellent accuracy. Comparison with other state-of-the-art gravity modeling algorithm has proved that this algorithm has superior performance in both accuracy and efficiency. Application to analyze real topography demonstrated the practicality. This algorithm will be an attractive candidate for carrying out the forward modeling step in geophysical inversion problems with the claimed and proved advantages.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Three-dimensional reservoir modeling is an important aspect to determine the heterogeneity of organic-rich shale reservoirs, an area of study that continues to be explored and refined. A large proportion of data acquired from horizontal wells causes issues in the structural and property modeling for shale reservoirs. Since horizontal wells are designed to drill into a specific, narrow zone, their horizontal section tends to parallel or nearly parallel formation surfaces. As a result, formation surfaces have a much more complex spatial location relationship with horizontal wellbores than with vertical wellbores. The existing algorithms are not good at addressing this issue during structural modeling. The major problem of using horizontal well data in property modeling is the biased data set because their horizontal section tends to stay within a narrow zone. The property distribution feature estimated from this biased data set, as a significant, default input of geostatistical simulation algorithms, causes the constructed property models to deviate away from the real case in the subsurface. A method to infer more formation tops in pseudovertical wells according to a series of assumptions was developed to provide more constraint points for structural modeling within the areas of the horizontal well section. To use the biased database from horizontal wells, distribution function and trend model methods were developed for continuous property modeling, and percentage and probability trend models were developed for discrete property modeling. The Longmaxi–Wufeng shale in the Fuling gas field of Sichuan Basin was used as an example to express and verify these methods.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉An integrated approach to detect new areas of potential interest associated with stratigraphic traps in mature basins is presented. The study was carried out in the Middle Magdalena Valley basin, Colombia. The workflow integrates outcrop and subsurface interpretations of facies, activity of faults, and distribution of depocenters and paleocurrents and makes use of them to construct a three-dimensional exploration-scale geocellular facies model of the basin. The outcrop and well log sedimentological analysis distinguished facies associations of alluvial fan, overbank, floodplain, and channel fill, the last one constituting the reservoir rock. The seismic analysis showed that tectonic activity was coeval with the deposition of the productive units in the basin and that the activity ended earlier (before the middle Miocene) along the western margin than along the eastern margin. Paleogeographic reconstructions depict transverse and longitudinal fluvial systems, alluvial fans adjacent to the active basin margins, and floodplain facies dominating the structural highs and the southwestern depositional limit. These reconstructions provided statistical data (lateral variograms) to construct the model. The exploration-scale facies model depicts the complete structure of the basin in three dimensions and the gross distribution of the reservoir and seal rocks. The predictive capability of the model was evaluated positively, and the model was employed to detect zones of high channel fill facies probability that form bodies that are isolated or that terminate upward in pinchouts or are truncated by a fault. Our approach can prove helpful in improving general exploration workflows in similar settings.〈/span〉
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    Publication Date: 2018
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉ABSTRACT〈/div〉Knowledge of in situ stress distribution is fundamental for coalbed methane production; however, it is poorly understood in the eastern Yunnan region, South China. In this study, the horizontal maximum (〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉Hmax〈/span〉〈/sub〉) and minimum (〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉hmin〈/span〉〈/sub〉) principal stress and vertical stress (〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉v〈/span〉〈/sub〉) were systematically analyzed for the first time. The results indicated that the magnitudes of 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉Hmax〈/span〉〈/sub〉, 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉hmin〈/span〉〈/sub〉, and 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉v〈/span〉〈/sub〉 showed positive correlations with burial depth. In general, three types of in situ stress fields were determined: (1) 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉Hmax〈/span〉〈/sub〉 〉 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉v〈/span〉〈/sub〉 〉 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉hmin〈/span〉〈/sub〉 in shallow layers with burial depths less than approximately 600 m (∼1970 ft) below ground level (bgl), indicating a dominant strike-slip faulting stress regime; (2) in medium layers approximately 600–800 m (∼1970–2625 ft) bgl, the in situ stress state followed multiple relationships, suggesting that the in situ stress regime was transformed; and (3) 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉v〈/span〉〈/sub〉 〉 〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉Hmax〈/span〉〈/sub〉 〉〈span〉S〈/span〉〈sub〉〈span〉hmin〈/span〉〈/sub〉 in deep layers with burial depths greater than approximately 800 m (∼2625 ft) bgl, indicating a dominant normal faulting stress regime. Coal permeabilities obtained from injection–falloff well tests showed that they were widely distributed, and no obvious relationships were found between coal permeability and effective in situ stress magnitude. In the study area, the development and orientation of previously generated natural fractures combined with the present-day in situ stress distribution controlled the permeability in coal reservoirs. Differential stress and presence of natural fractures significantly affected the geometry and pattern of hydraulic fractures. In addition, in the eastern Yunnan region, locations with relatively deep depths in vertical wells and approximately west–northwest/east–southeast-trending horizontal wells suffered high potential of borehole instability because of the high differential stress.〈/span〉
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