Types and nature of fracture associated with Late Ordovician paleochannels of glaciofluvial Sarah Formation,Qasim region,Central Saudi Arabia     

Jarrah Mohammed Ahmed Babiker  Mustafa Mohammed Hariri  Osman Abdullatif  Gabor Korvin 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2017,10(6):146

This study evaluates the Late Ordovician glaciofluvial deposits of the Sarah Formation and equivalent outcroppings in north, central, and southwestern Saudi Arabia. The Sarah Formation also covers a wide area in the subsurface and is considered as an important target for unconventional tight gas reservoir. Defining the fracture types, nature, and distribution in outcrop scale might help to establish a successful fracture simulation model and behavior for the Sarah tight gas reservoir in the subsurface. This study investigates fracture characteristics for the Sarah Formation at Sarah paleochannel outcrops. The study revealed three sets of fractures, which have EW, NS, and SE-NW directions, and these fractures vary from open, resistive, and filled to resistive fractures. The closed fractures are filled with ferruginated iron oxides and gypsum. The filled fractures (the thrust boundary) are found in the study area at the SE-NW strike fracture set, while open and resistive fractures are found mainly at S-N and E-W fracture sets, respectively. The syn-depositional filled fractures (iron oxides) are considered as the younger fracture sets while the open and resistive fractures are post-depositional fractures which may have resulted from uplift or tectonic movement. A general model representing the fracture pattern and the thrusting boundaries due to glacial movement was constructed. It has been noticed that the systematic occurrence of filled fractures (thrust boundaries) described the boundaries between different glacial events, which act as a fluid barrier (filled fractures) and decrease the reservoir quality. The finding of this study might be utilized as a guide and lead for exploration in the subsurface Sarah glacial deposits. It will also help to understand and speculate the nature pattern and distribution of fractures with the Sarah Formation.  相似文献   

Recent developments of the Middle East catalog   总被引：8，自引：2，他引：6  

Mehdi Zare  Hamideh Amini  Pouye Yazdi  Karin Sesetyan  Mine Betul Demircioglu  Dogan Kalafat  Mustafa Erdik  Domenico Giardini  M. Asif Khan  Nino Tsereteli 《Journal of Seismology》2014,18(4):749-772

This article summarizes a recent study in the framework of the Global Earth model (GEM) and the Earthquake Model of the Middle East (EMME) project to establish the new catalog of seismicity for the Middle East, using all historical (pre-1900), early and modern instrumental events up to 2006. According to different seismicity, which depends on geophysical, geological, tectonic, and seismicity data, this region is subdivided to nine subregions, consisting of Alborz–Azerbaijan, Afghanistan–Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Caucasus, Central Iran, Kopeh–Dagh, Makran, Zagros, and Turkey (Eastern Anatolia; after 30° E). After omitting the duplicate events, aftershocks, and foreshocks by using the Gruenthal method, and uniform all magnitude to Mw scale, 28,244 main events remain for the new catalog of Middle East from 1250 B.C. through 2006. The magnitude of completeness (Mc) was determined as 4.9 for five out of nine subregions, where the least values of Mc were found to be 4.2. The threshold of Mc is around 5.5, 5.0, 4.5, and 4.0, for the time after 1950, 1963, 1975, and 2000, respectively. The average of teleseismic depths in all regions is less than 15 km. Totally, majority of depth for Kopeh–Dagh and Central Iran, Zagros, and Alborz–Azerbaijan, approximately, is 15, 13, and 11 km and for Afghanistan–Pakistan, Caucasus, Makran, Turkey (after 30° E), and Saudi Arabia is about 9 km.  相似文献   

Vortex Assisted Liquid–Liquid Microextraction Using Triton X‐114 for Ultratrace Cadmium Prior to Analysis          下载免费PDF全文

Sumaira Khan  Erkan Yilmaz  Tasneem Gul Kazi  Mustafa Soylak 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2014,42(8):1083-1088

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Stability and Removal of Naproxen and Its Metabolite by Advanced Membrane Wastewater Treatment Plant and Micelle–Clay Complex          下载免费PDF全文

Mohannad Qurie  Mustafa Khamis  Fida Malek  Shlomo Nir  Sabino A. Bufo  Jihad Abbadi  Laura Scrano  Rafik Karaman 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2014,42(5):594-600

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Complexities in hindcasting models--when should we say enough is enough     

Maslia ML  Aral MM  Faye RE  Grayman WM  Suárez-Soto RJ  Sautner JB  Anderson BA  Bove FJ  Ruckart PZ  Moore SM 《Ground water》2012,50(1):10-6; discussion 16-8

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Stephen Edward Coleman (1966–2012)     

Mustafa Altinakar  Rob Ettema  Marcelo García  Bruce Melville  Vladimir Nikora  Gary Parker 《Acta Geophysica》2012,60(6):1500-1501

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Chemometric Interpretation on the Occurrence of Endocrine Disruptors in Source Water from Malaysia          下载免费PDF全文

Veerasingan Armugam Santhi  Hafizan Juahir  Ananthy Retnam  Ali Mohd Mustafa 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(6):804-810

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Biodegradation of 2,4‐Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Contaminated Soil in a Roller Slurry Bioreactor          下载免费PDF全文

Yasmen A. Mustafa  Hayder M. Abdul‐Hameed  Zainab Abdul Razak 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(8):1241-1247

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A statistical evaluation of the potential genotoxic activity in the surface waters of the Golden Horn Estuary     

Emel Kocak  Kaan Yetilmezsoy  Mustafa Petek 《Marine pollution bulletin》2010,60(10):1708-1717

The potential genotoxic activity in the surface waters of the Golden Horn Estuary was statistically evaluated utilizing a combination of appropriate parametric and non-parametric tests. The genotoxic activities that were associated with the water samples were determined by the SOS chromotest microplate assay. This assay utilizes β-galactosidase activity, alkaline phosphatase activity, and four different solvent controls, to generate reliable results when corrected induction factors (CIF) are used as quantitative measurements of genotoxic activity. The CIF values were obtained from a total of 384 different genotoxic experiments that were grouped into subsets according to the respective seasons and the selected sampling locations. A total of 160 subsets were statistically compared to assess any possible differences between the pairs of groups, with 95% confidence limits. The findings of this study clearly indicate that some seasonal variations exist in the CIF values at several sampling sites. However, no potentially hazardous impact to the aquatic environment was found in the estuarine system.  相似文献   

Site classification of Turkish national strong-motion stations   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

M. Abdullah Sandıkkaya  Mustafa Tolga Yılmaz  B. Sadık Bakır  Özdoğan Yılmaz 《Journal of Seismology》2010,14(3):543-563

Since 1973, the General Directorate of Disaster Affairs of Turkey has deployed several strong-motion accelerographs at selected sites. Within the framework of the project entitled Compilation of National Strong Ground Motion Database in Accordance with International Standards, site conditions were investigated within the upper 30-m depth by surface seismic and standard penetration tests. Preliminary characterization of the sites is made by making use of both geophysical and geotechnical criteria of NEHRP Provisions and Eurocode-8 site classification systems. The liquefaction susceptibility of those sites which comprise saturated cohesionless deposits is also determined. Mean shear-wave velocity, mean penetration resistance, site class, and liquefaction susceptibility of each site are tabulated. The Turkish strong-motion database supplemented by detailed information on site conditions is a valuable source of information particularly for those studies that put emphasis on the relationship between site conditions and strong-motion parameters.  相似文献