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Tectonics is a hologram

Nicolas Coltice

Published: 2022-11-05
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geology, Geophysics and Seismology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Tectonics and Structure

A hologram is an image in which each area contains almost all the information about the entire system. It is a metaphor commonly used for complex systems in which the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts because of self-organization. And also the whole is smaller than the sum of the parts, since the collective organization limits the behavior of dynamic features. The tectonic evolution of [...]

Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Analyzing Dynamics in Multi-phase Flow in Porous Media

Catherine Spurin, Steffen Berg, Ryan Armstrong, et al.

Published: 2022-11-05
Subjects: Engineering, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

For multi-phase flow through multi-scale heterogeneous porous media, such as the pore space of rocks, the interaction between multiple immiscible fluids and an intricate network of pores, creates a wide range of dynamic flow phenomena. At larger scales i.e. scales relevant for practical applications such as carbon sequestration, this interplay of dynamic phenomena is often referred to as [...]

Quantifying dyke-induced graben and dyke structure using 3D seismic reflection data

Craig Magee, Victoria Love, Karima Fayez, et al.

Published: 2022-11-04
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

During dyke intrusion, tensile stresses concentrated within the overlying rock may lead to the formation of normal faults. These faults typically form graben-bounding pairs that are sub-parallel to, and dip toward, the upper tip of their underlying dyke. Many studies use geometric properties extracted from the surface expression of such dyke-induced faults to estimate the geometry of subsurface [...]

Geochemistry and Mineralization Study of the Stream Sediments around Agunjin area Northeastern, Nigeria

Adediji Adewunmi, Peter Oluwanishola Mafimisebi

Published: 2022-11-04
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Agunjin lies in the Northeastern part of Kwara State, Nigeria. The study area is largely underlain by the basement complex rocks of Northeastern Nigeria. Some parts of the area had been investigated in terms of mineral deposits but stream sediment mineral potentials of the area are unknown. Eight (8) stream sediment samples were selected for the study. The stream sediments were analyzed for [...]

Paintings by Turner and Monet Depict Trends in 19th Century Air Pollution

Anna Lea Albright, Peter Huybers

Published: 2022-11-04
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Individual paintings by artists including Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch have been shown to depict specific atmospheric phenomena, raising the question whether longer-term environmental change influences stylistic trends in painting. Anthropogenic aerosol emissions increased to unprecedented levels during the 19th century as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, particularly in Western [...]

The forearc ophiolites of California (USA) formed during trench-parallel spreading: kinematic reconstruction of the western USA Cordillera since the Jurassic

Cemil Arkula, Nalan Lom, John Wakabayashi, et al.

Published: 2022-11-01
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Ophiolites, fragments of oceanic lithosphere exposed on land, are typically found as isolated klippen in intensely deformed fold-thrust belts spanning hundreds to thousands of kilometers along-strike. Ophiolites whose geochemistry indicates that they formed above subduction zones, may have been relics of larger, once-coherent, oceanic lithosphere tracts that formed the leading edge of an upper [...]

The ice dynamic and melting response of Pine Island Ice Shelf to calving

Alexander Thomas Bradley, Jan De Rydt, David T Bett, et al.

Published: 2022-10-31
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Sea level rise contributions from Pine Island Glacier (PIG) are strongly modulated by the backstress that its floating extension – Pine Island Ice Shelf (PIIS) – exerts on the adjoining grounded ice. The front of PIIS has recently retreated significantly via calving, and satellite and theoretical analyses have suggested further retreat is inevitable. As well as inducing an instantaneous increase [...]

Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable

Benjamin Fernando, Natasha Joanne Dowey, Catherine Souch, et al.

Published: 2022-10-28
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Education, Outdoor Education, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Doctoral study is a crucial part of the academic pipeline, but discriminatory admissions procedures disproportionately impact students from ethnic minority backgrounds. We examine how doctoral recruitment policies contribute to inequity in the geosciences and propose improvements for change.

Quantitative constraints on flood variability in the rock record.

Jonah S. McLeod, James Wood, Sinead J. Lyster, et al.

Published: 2022-10-27
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Floods determine river behaviour in time and space. Yet quantitative measures of discharge variability from geological stratigraphy are sparse, even though they are critical to understand landscape sensitivity to past and future environmental change. Here we show how storm-driven river floods in the geologic past can be quantified, using Carboniferous stratigraphy as an exemplar. The geometries [...]

Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand

Suzanna H.A. van de Lagemaat, Peter J.J. Kamp, Lydian M. Boschman, et al.

Published: 2022-10-27
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Following hundreds of millions of years of subduction in all circum-Pacific margins, the Pacific Plate started to share a mid-ocean ridge connection with continental Antarctica during a Late Cretaceous south Pacific plate reorganization. This reorganization was associated with the cessation of subduction of the remnants of the Phoenix Plate along the Zealandia margin of East Gondwana, but [...]

Experimental comparisons of carbonate-associated sulfate extraction methods

Zheyu Tian, Graham Anthony Shields, Ying Zhou

Published: 2022-10-26
Subjects: Biogeochemistry, Earth Sciences, Geochemistry, Geology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Carbonate-associated sulfate (CAS) refers to trace amounts of sulfate incorporated into carbonate minerals during precipitation. CAS has been the most commonly used approach to recover the paleo-seawater sulfate sulfur isotope composition (δ34Ssw) as carbonate rocks are more common and occur in less restricted marine environments than alternative sulfate-bearing minerals (such as gypsum and [...]

A decade of in situ cosmogenic 14C in Antarctica

Keir Nichols

Published: 2022-10-26
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Cosmogenic nuclide measurements in glacial deposits extend our knowledge of glacier chronologies beyond the observational record. The short half-life of in situ cosmogenic 14C makes it particularly useful for studying glacier chronologies, as resulting exposure ages are less sensitive to nuclide inheritance when compared with more commonly measured, long-lived nuclides. An increasing number [...]

Restricted rupture evolution of the 2022 Mw 6.7 Luding China earthquake

Hu Yaping, Yuji Yagi, Ryo Okuwaki, et al.

Published: 2022-10-25
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

On September 5, 2022, a strike-slip earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) 6.7 occurred along the Moxi segment of the Xianshuihe fault zone in Luding, Sichuan province, China. To estimate the rupture evolution of the 2022 Luding earthquake, we inverted teleseismic P-waves by applying the Potency Density Tensor Inversion, a novel method that can estimate fault geometry and source process. We [...]

Sedimentological Characteristics, and Provenance of the Late Cretaceous Sediment in the Eastern Dahomey Basin

Peter Oluwanishola Mafimisebi, Ngozi Blessing Nsodikwa

Published: 2022-10-24
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Field studies of outcrop samples from part of the Dahomey basin, southeastern Nigeria, were investigated to unravel the lithofacies distribution and provenance of the basin. Granulometric analysis of the sandstone facies of the Araromi Formation has been studied. Histograms of the sediments exhibit both unimodal and bimodal trends. The cumulative curve of the studied samples Is typical of fluvial [...]

GEOCHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL STUDY OF THE CRETACEOUS SEDIMENTS IN KERI KERI, FIKA, GONGILA, AND BIMA SANDSTONE FORMATION BORNU BASIN, NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA

Peter Oluwanishola Mafimisebi, Lateef Ogedengbe

Published: 2022-10-24
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

The mineralogical and geochemical composition of Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments of the Bornu Basin, northeastern Nigeria penetrated by Kanadi Wells, have been studied towards deducing aspects of their derivation and deposition. The sediments comprising the Bima Sandstone Formation, sandy-shale Gongila Formation, and, clayey and shaley Fika Formation are mainly composed of quartz (35-58%) and [...]

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