The origin of dolomite associated with salt diapirs in central Tunisia: Preliminary investigations of field relationships and geochemistry     

Ihsan S. Al-Aasm  Hassen Abdallah   《Journal of Geochemical Exploration》2006,89(1-3):5

Black and white dolomite crystals (mm to cm width) of different isotopic composition are associated with Triassic diapirism in central Tunisia, as well as with evaporite minerals and clays. The white dolomites occur mostly in the Jabal Hadifa diapir near the contact with Cretaceous limestones, whereas the smaller black dolomites occur in the Jabal Hamra diapir. The former dolomite has a narrow range of δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C values (− 3.83‰ to − 6.60‰ VPDB for δ¹⁸O; − 2.11‰ to − 2.83‰ VPDB for δ¹³C), whereas the latter dolomite has a wider range and more depleted values (− 4.92‰ to − 9.97‰ for δ¹⁸O; − 0.55‰ to − 6.08‰ for δ¹³C). However, the ⁸⁷Sr / ⁸⁶Sr ratios of most of the samples are near Triassic seawater values. Dolomite formation is due to at least two different fluids. The main fluid originated from deeper hydrothermal or basinal sources related to the Triassic saliferous rocks and ascended through faults during the diapiric intrusion. The second, less important fluid source is related to meteoric water originating from Cretaceous rocks.  相似文献   

Testimonial: Dr Elise Lindgren*     

Mary Maher  David Wadley 《The Australian geographer》2018,49(2):339-340

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Palynology and palynofacies of the Upper Cretaceous succession of the El-Noor-1X borehole,northwestern Egypt     

Maher I. El-Soughier 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(4):1297-1311

Palynological and palynofacies analyses were carried out on some middle–upper Cretaceous samples from the El-Noor-1X borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt. Palynological age has lead to a refinement of the original ages suggested by the drilling company. Upper Albian–Lower Cenomanian, Upper Cenomanian, and Turonian–Coniacian were recognized. The palaeoenvironment was interpreted on the basis of the ecological preferences of the palynomorphs. It was fluctuating between marginal to inner-middle shelf environment. Distribution of araucaroid pollen and xerophytes suggests that arid or semi-arid paleclimate prevailed during the deposition of the studied sediments. A warm tropical palaeoclimate is suggested on the basis of abundance of hygrophilous plants. Based on the recovered palynological organic matter, two palynofacies were recognized: palynofacies A for the Bahariya Formation, which suggests kerogen type III, and palynofacies B for the upper Bahariya and Abu Roash Formations, which suggests kerogen type IX. Data gathered from the theoretically estimated vitrinite reflectances, which are based on spore/pollen coloration, and visual pterographic kerogen analysis are used to define the source rock potentialities of the studied sediments.  相似文献   

Surface soil assessment in the Ubhur area,north of Jeddah,western Saudi Arabia,using a multichannel analysis of surface waves method     

Maher Aldahri  Saad mogren  Kamal Abdelrahman  Hani Zahran  Sherif El Hady  Mahmoud El-Hadidy 《Journal of the Geological Society of India》2017,89(4):435-443

Ten boreholes drilled in Ubhur area up to the depth of bedrock indicted the shallow depth of bedrock where the average depth ranges between 10 and 15 m. The standard penetration test N-values of these boreholes were measured and averaged. Based on N-values to the depth of bedrock, Ubhur area can be classified as site class C and D. Multichannel analysis of surface waves technique has been applied along seventy six profiles using 24-channel geophone array and 4.5Hz vertical geophones with 1m geophone spacing and sledgehammer and/or weight drop as seismic energy sources. Values of shear wave velocity to 30 m are calculated and then averaged (Vs30) where it ranges between 310.08 m/s and 1139.8 m/s. Therefore, Ubhur area can be classified into site class B, C and D based on site classification of the national earthquake hazards reduction program (NEHRP) recommendations. Accordingly, the greatest part of the study area falls in site class C while class B and D covered limited areas in the western and the eastern parts respectively. Depending on the shallow depth of bedrock in the study area, the Vs30 parameter is not applicable in the study area so the average values of Vs for the soil thickness, excluding the bedrock, have been calculated and mapped for site class C and D only. So Vs30 approach is not applicable for areas with shallow depth of bedrock which gives higher classification.  相似文献   

Study on the improving method for gas production prediction in tight clastic reservoir     

Amir Maher Sayed Lala  Hany Maher Sayed Lala 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2017,10(3):70

Relative permeability and resistivity index are important parameters for the exploration and development in a tight sandstone gas field. In the splitting method which uses permeability (K), reservoir thickness (H), and relative permeability (K), briefly referred to as the KHK splitting method, the accuracy of the relative permeability is crucial. According to the relationship between resistivity index and relative permeability of the Mesozoic Lower Safa Formation at Obaiyed Field in the Western Desert of Egypt, we improved the split method and made it more in line with the real situation by adopting Pairoys’ model which is more suitable to our study area. In this paper, we use a radial basis function (RBF) to establish the relationship between logging data and the gas production split point to point in tight sandstone gas reservoirs. To compare with the result by support vector regression (SVR), our method is better as indicated by mean absolute error values. In order to solve the problem that the relative permeability is difficult to obtain in the well logging evaluation, we also provide a convenient method and application example.  相似文献