Hydraulic Tomography: Continuity and Discontinuity of High‐K and Low‐K Zones          下载免费PDF全文

David L. Hochstetler  Warren Barrash  Carsten Leven  Michael Cardiff  Francesco Chidichimo  Peter K. Kitanidis 《Ground water》2016,54(2):171-185

Hydraulic tomography is an emerging field and modeling method that provides a continuous hydraulic conductivity (K) distribution for an investigated region. Characterization approaches that rely on interpolation between one‐dimensional (1D) profiles have limited ability to accurately identify high‐K channels, juxtapositions of lenses with high K contrast, and breaches in layers or channels between such profiles. However, locating these features is especially important for groundwater flow and transport modeling, and for design and operation of in situ remediation in complex hydrogeologic environments. We use transient hydraulic tomography to estimate 3D K in a volume of 15‐m diameter by 20‐m saturated thickness in a highly heterogeneous unconfined alluvial (clay to sand‐and‐gravel) aquifer with a K range of approximately seven orders of magnitude at an active industrial site in Assemini, Sardinia, Italy. A modified Levenberg‐Marquardt algorithm was used for geostatistical inversion to deal with the nonlinear nature of the highly heterogeneous system. The imaging results are validated with pumping tests not used in the tomographic inversion. These tests were conducted from three of five clusters of continuous multichannel tubing (CMTs) installed for observation in the tomographic testing. Locations of high‐K continuity and discontinuity, juxtaposition of very high‐K and very low‐K lenses, and low‐K “plugs” are evident in regions of the investigated volume where they likely would not have been identified with interpolation from 1D profiles at the positions of the pumping well and five CMT clusters. Quality assessment methods identified a suspect high‐K feature between the tested volume and a lateral boundary of the model.  相似文献   

Complex interplay between depositional and petrophysical environments in Holocene tidal carbonates (Al Ruwais,Qatar)          下载免费PDF全文

Sam Purkis  John Rivers  Christian J. Strohmenger  Christopher Warren  Ruqaiya Yousif  Luis Ramirez  Bernhard Riegl 《Sedimentology》2017,64(6):1646-1675

Carbonate rocks can be classified in terms of those properties relating to the pore system of lithified sediments, so‐called ‘petrophysical rock types’, or ‘depositional rock types’ which are categorized based on characteristics directly reflecting their original depositional environment. Whereas petrophysical rock types are typically used to identify and distribute rock bodies within a reservoir with similar flow characteristics, depositional rock types ignore pore types and capture sedimentary structures, lithology and fossils. Both classification systems are extensively used to describe reservoir rocks, but the degree of plurality between them remains poorly understood and is the motivation for this study. To examine the degree of congruency between the two classification schemes, a field assessment was conducted for a 175 km² area situated offshore Al Ruwais, northern Qatar, encompassing depositional environments spanning supratidal, intertidal, shallow subtidal and open marine conditions. A total of 350 surficial sediment samples were collected along 24 shore‐normal transects. Each sample was assigned a ‘petrophysical rock type’ class based on analysis of sedimentary texture (grain size and sorting). ‘Depositional rock type’ classes, by contrast, were defined with reference to faunal content and, in turn, classes of mineralogy were delimited by weighting this content against the mineralogy of each faunal category. Of course, the samples studied correspond to unconsolidated sediments and not to indurated rocks. However, considering only primary porosity and permeability preservation, it is reasonable to assume that the classified sediments would become petrophysical rock types and depositional rock types when consolidated, following their primary grain size, sorting and grain type distribution. Therefore, the term ‘rock type’ is retained here for ease of terminology but, for clarity, these are sediment samples. The discrete samples were interpolated into continuous surfaces describing the distribution of depositional rock types, petrophysical rock types and mineralogy, and spatial correspondence between those surfaces was statistically evaluated. In order to link these parameters with environment of deposition, their correlation with water depth (as audited from airborne light detection and ranging) and ecological habitat (mapped from DigitalGlobe satellite imagery) was also assessed. The data reveal that spatial distributions of sedimentary faunal, petrographic and mineralogical properties do not show exactly congruent patterns. Other meaningful trends do exist, however. For example, the occurrence of certain depositional rock types is indicative of particular petrophysical rock types, and vice versa. Further, connections between petrophysical rock types and mineralogy are emphasized and offer insight as to how the evolution of matrix porosity might be predicted via diagenetic models tuned to specific sediment textures. Useful relationships are also identified between the occurrence of petrophysical rock types and depositional rock types, and both ecological habitat and water depth. The potential of such dualities is two‐fold. Firstly, they can be applied to more realistically distribute petrophysical rock types and depositional rock types by environment of deposition in reservoir models and, secondly, the use of modern carbonate systems as subsurface analogues might be enhanced.  相似文献   

Water resources take energy     

Wood WW 《Ground water》2008,46(6):789

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A Civil Action-What Will Be the Legacy of Wells G and H?     

E. Scott Bair  Warren W. Wood 《Ground water》1999,37(2):161-162

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A case of rapid alteration     

Paul H. Warren 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1999,34(1):3-3

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华南五峰组-龙马溪组黑色岩系时空展布的主控因素及其启示   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

苏文博  李志明  王巍  马超  李录  张磊  赵慧静 《地球科学》2007,32(6):819-827

在回顾五峰组-龙马溪组两个地层单位沿革并重申其定义与划分基础上,重建了华南五峰组-龙马溪组及其相关地层序列的区域地层框架.根据这一框架中奥陶-志留纪黑色笔石岩系的穿时性、以及相关地层序列纵向演化特征与岩石圈板块挠曲模式的联系,结合所发现钾质斑脱岩源岩的板块汇聚背景,以及该阶段海平面升降与黑色岩系对应关系,提出控制该阶段华南黑色岩系的时空展布格局的主要因素有两个,即该阶段自南东向北西的华夏地块与扬子地块幕式汇聚过程所产生的岩石圈板块挠曲-周缘前陆盆地的同向迁移,以及该阶段两次全球性的三级海平面变化快速上升阶段所导致的缺氧及欠补偿水体.本文认为,要在华南奥陶-志留纪(包括其他断代)寻找其他可能的烃源岩层位,可能要首先考虑类似背景下这两种因素综合作用所导致的快速沉降及深水缺氧的沉积环境.  相似文献   

Large‐scale regional delineation of riparian vegetation in the arid and semi‐arid Pilbara region,WA          下载免费PDF全文

Masoomeh Alaibakhsh  Irina Emelyanova  Olga Barron  Mehdi Khiadani  Garth Warren 《水文研究》2017,31(24):4269-4281

Multiscene Landsat 5 TM imagery, Principal Component Analysis, and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index were used to produce the first region‐scale map of riparian vegetation for the Pilbara (230,000 km²), Western Australia. Riparian vegetation is an environmentally important habitat in the arid and desert climate of the Pilbara. These habitats are supported by infrequent flow events and in some locations by groundwater discharge. Our analysis suggests that riparian vegetation covers less than 4% of the Pilbara region, whereas almost 10.5% of this area is composed of groundwater dependent vegetation (GDV). GDV is often associated with open water (river pools), providing refugia for a variety of species. GDV has an extremely high ecological value and are often important Indigenous sites. This paper demonstrates how Landsat data calibrated to Top of Atmosphere reflectance can be used to delineate riparian vegetation across 16 Landsat scenes and two Universal Transverse Mercator spatial zones. The proposed method is able to delineate riparian vegetation and GDV, without the need for Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function correction. Results were validated using ground truth data from local and regional scale vegetation surveys.  相似文献   

Performance of a numerical short-wave model     

P.A. Madsen  I.R. Warren 《Coastal Engineering》1984,8(1):73-93

A numerical short-wave model system based on the Boussinesq equations is verified against analytical as well as experimental results for shoaling, refraction, diffraction and partial reflection processes. It is shown that engineers can confidently and responsibly apply such a model system to the study of wave disturbance in coastal regions.  相似文献   

Lunar-meteoritic ground truth     

Paul H. Warren 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1996,31(6):696-697

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A multivariate gamma distribution arising from a Markov model     

D. Warren 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》1992,6(3):183-190

A Markov chain{X _t }, which has been useful for modelling in hydrology, can be specified by the Laplace transform (LT) of the conditional p.d.f. ofX _t+1 givenX _t =x _t , which is assumed to be of the exponential formH()exp{-G()x _t }. For appropriate choice ofH andG the marginal distribution ofX _t is the (univariate) gamma distribution. In this case, the joint p.d.f. ofX _t +1,...,X _t+n and its LT, are obtained, and this is extended to a seasonal version of the chain. A simple method of generating observations from these multivariate gamma distributions is noted, and the joint LT is applied to the problem of determining moments of weighted sums of such variables.  相似文献