Author: William E. GallowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Catahoula Formation of the Texas Coastal Plain
Author: William E. GallowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Catahoula Formation of the Texas Coastal Plain
Author: William E. GallowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geochemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups (Late Eocene to Early Miocene, North America)
Author: Dennis O. TerryPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 9780813723259
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Geology of the Coastal Plain of Texas West of Brazos River
Author: Alexander DeussenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Catahoula Formation of the Texas Coastal Plain
Author: William E. GallowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin
Author: John W. SneddenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110841902X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Introduction -- Mesozoic depositional evolution -- Cenozoic depositional evolution -- Petroleum habitat.
Soil Survey
Author: A Geologic Report on the Oakville-Goliad Drilling Project
Author: Jon Alan BenferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems
Author: W. E. GallowayPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146840170X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The reserves, or extractable fraction, of the fuel-mineral endowment are sufficient to supply the bulk of the world's energy requirements for the immediately forseeable future-well into the next century according to even the most pessimistic predictions. But increasingly sophisticated exploration concepts and technology must be employed to maintain and, if possible, add to the reserve base. Most of the world's fuel-mineral resources are in sedimentary rocks. Any procedure or concept that helps describe, under stand, and predict the external geometry and internal attributes of major sedimentary units can therefore contribute to discovery and recovery of coal, uranium, and petroleum. While conceding the desirability of renewable and nonpolluting energy supply from gravitational, wind, or solar sources, the widespread deployment of these systems lies far in the future-thus the continued commercial emphasis on conventional nonrenewable fuel mineral resources, even though their relative significance will fluctuate with time. For example, a decade ago the progilostications for uranium were uniformly optimistic. But in the early 1980s the uranium picture is quite sombre, although unlikely to remain permanently depressed. Whether uranium soars to the heights of early expectations remains to be seen. Problems of waste disposal and public acceptance persist. Fusion reactors may ultimately eliminate the need for uranium in power generation, but for the next few decades there will be continued demand for uranium to fuel existing power plants and those that come on stream. This book is, to some extent, a hybrid.
Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems
Author: William E. GallowayPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642610188
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Nonrenewable energy resources, comprising fossil fuels and uranium, are not ran domly distributed within the Earth's crust. They formed in response to a complex array of geologic controls, notably the genesis of the sedimentary rocks that host most commercial energy resources. It is this genetic relationship between economic re sources and environment that forms the basis for this book. Our grouping of petro leum, coal, uranium, and ground water may appear to be incongruous or artificial. But our basic premise is that these ostensibly disparate resources share common genetic attributes and that the sedimentological principles governing their natural distributions and influencing their recovery are fundamentally similar. Our combined careers have focused on these four resources, and our experiences in projects worldwide reveal that certain recurring geologic factors are important in controlling the distribution of com mercial accumulations and subsurface fluid flow. These critical factors include the shape and stability of the receiving basin, the major depositional elements and their internal detail, and the modifications during burial that are brought about in these sediments by pressure, circulating fluids, heating, and chemical reaction. Since the first edition of this book in 1983, there has been a quantum leap in the volume of literature devoted to genetic stratigraphy and refinement of sedimentologi cal principles and a commensurate increase in the application of these concepts to resource exploration and development.