Proactive Management of Ecosystem Services in Oil Sands Pre-mining Phase     

Omotehinse  A. O.  De Tomi  G.  Baninla  Yvette 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(2):949-965

Natural Resources Research - Ecosystems and their services are essential to human well-being, but mining activities often cause adverse impacts on these services. Although impact of mining...  相似文献   

Evaluation of Interactions Between Oilfield Chemicals and Reservoir Rocks     

Wuyep  E. O.  Oluyemi  G. F.  Yates  K.  Akisanya  A. R. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(2):1239-1258

Natural Resources Research - Sand failure and production occurs when the formation stress exceeds the strength of the formation, which is derived majorly from the natural material that cements the...  相似文献   

Estimating Model Parameters from Self-Potential Anomaly of 2D Inclined Sheet Using Whale Optimization Algorithm: Applications to Mineral Exploration and Tracing Shear Zones     

Gobashy  Mohamed  Abdelazeem  Maha  Abdrabou  Mohamed  Khalil  Mohamed H. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(1):499-519

The use of spontaneous potential (SP) anomalies is well known in the geophysical literatures because of its effectiveness and significance in solving many complex problems in mineral exploration. The inverse problem of self-potential data interpretation is generally ill-posed and nonlinear. Methods based on derivative analysis usually fail to reach the optimal solution (global minimum) and trapped in a local minimum. A new simple heuristic solution to SP anomalies due to 2D inclined sheet of infinite horizontal length is investigated in this study to solve these problems. This method is based on utilizing whale optimization algorithm (WOA) as an effective heuristic solution to the inverse problem of self-potential field due to a 2D inclined sheet. In this context, the WOA was applied first to synthetic example, where the effect of the random noise was examined and the method revealed good results using proper MATLAB code. The technique was then applied on several real field profiles from different localities aiming to determine the parameters of mineralized zones or the associated shear zones. The inversion parameters revealed that WOA detected accurately the unknown parameters and showed a good validation when compared with the published inversion methods.

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Detecting Land Subsidence Due to Groundwater Withdrawal in Aliabad Plain,Iran, Using ESA Sentinel-1 Satellite Data     

Edalat  Ali  Khodaparast  Mahdi  Rajabi  Ali M. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(3):1935-1950

Natural Resources Research - In the present study, ground subsidence in the Aliabad plain (central Iran) was investigated using differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry. The data used...  相似文献   

Co-simulated Size Number: An Elegant Novel Algorithm for Identification of Multivariate Geochemical Anomalies     

Madani  Nasser  Carranza  Emmanuel John M. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(1):13-40

Natural Resources Research - Identification of geochemical anomalies is of particular importance for tracing the footprints of anomalies. This can be implemented by advanced techniques of...  相似文献   

Effects of Artefacts on Natural Gradient Single-Borehole Tracer Dilution Tests     

Gomo  M. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(3):2227-2235

Natural Resources Research - Single-borehole tracer dilution tests are used to estimate the Darcy velocity (vd) which is important for investigating contaminant transport and distribution within...  相似文献   

Updated Characterization of Dorowa Phosphate Rock Mined in Zimbabwe     

Tumbure  Akinson  Bretherton  Mike R.  Bishop  Peter  Hedley  Mike J. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(3):1561-1570

Natural Resources Research - The physical and chemical characteristics of mined phosphate rock will vary temporally as the location and nature of the ore body changes and as the type of equipment...  相似文献   

3D Structural,Facies and Petrophysical Modeling of C Member of Six Hills Formation,Komombo Basin,Upper Egypt     

Ali  Moamen  Abdelmaksoud  Ahmed  Essa  M. A.  Abdelhady  A.  Darwish  M. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(4):2575-2597

Natural Resources Research - Two main reservoirs are producing in Komombo Basin: the first one belongs to the C Member of the Six Hills Formation, and the second belongs to the Albian/Cenomanian...  相似文献   

Appraisal of Hydraulic Flow Units and Factors of the Dynamics and Contamination of Hydrogeological Units in the Littoral Zones: A Case Study of Akwa Ibom State University and Its Environs,Mkpat Enin L.G.A,Nigeria     

George  Nyakno J. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(6):3771-3788

Natural Resources Research - Borehole-controlled one-dimensional geo-electric data were integrated with water samples obtained from boreholes drilled near the vertical electrical sounding at 12...  相似文献   

Low‐P and high‐T metamorphism of basalts: Insights from the Sudbury impact melt sheet aureole and thermodynamic modelling     

Taus R. C. Jrgensen  Douglas K. Tinkham  C. Michael Lesher 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》2019,37(2):271-313

Low‐pressure and high‐temperature (LP–HT) metamorphism of basaltic rocks, which occurs globally and throughout geological time, is rarely constrained by forward phase equilibrium modelling, yet such calculations provide valuable supplementary thermometric information and constraints on anatexis that are not possible to obtain from conventional thermometry. Metabasalts along the southern margin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) record evidence of high‐grade contact metamorphism involving partial melting and melt segregation. Peak metamorphic temperatures reached at least ~925°C at ~1–3 kbar near the SIC contact. Preservation of the peak mineral assemblage indicates that most of the generated melt escaped from these rocks leaving a residuum characterized by a plagioclase–orthopyroxene–clinopyroxene–ilmenite‐magnetite±melt assemblage. Peak temperatures reached ~875°C up to 500 m from the SIC lower contact, which marks the transition to metabasalts that only experienced incipient partial melting without melt loss. Metabasalts ~500 to 750 m from the SIC contact are characterized by a similar two‐pyroxene mineral assemblage, but typically contain abundant hornblende that overgrew clino‐ and orthopyroxene along an isobaric cooling path. Metabasalts ~750 to 1,000 m from the SIC contact are characterized by a hornblende–plagioclase–quartz–ilmenite assemblage indicating temperatures up to ~680°C. Mass balance and phase equilibria calculations indicate that anatexis resulted in 10–20% melt generation in the inner ~500 m of the aureole, with even higher degrees of melting towards the contact. Comparison of multiple models, experiments, and natural samples indicates that modelling in the Na₂O–CaO–FeO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂O–TiO₂–O₂ (NCFMASHTO) system results in the most reliable predictions for the temperature of the solidus. Incorporation of K₂O in the most recent amphibole solution model now successfully predicts dehydration melting by the coexistence of high‐Ca amphibole and silicate melt at relatively low pressures (~1.5 kbar). However, inclusion of K₂O as a system component results in prediction of the solidus at too low a temperature. Although there are discrepancies between modelling predictions and experimental results, this study demonstrates that the pseudosection approach to mafic rocks is an invaluable tool to constrain metamorphic processes at LP–HT conditions.  相似文献