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Reframing Global Health & Environmental Issues In The 21st Century, Nat Quansah Jul 2008

Reframing Global Health & Environmental Issues In The 21st Century, Nat Quansah

Nat Quansah

No abstract provided.


Forward Modeling Synsedimentary Deformation Associated With A Prograding Steep-Rimmed Carbonate Margin, Phillip Resor Apr 2008

Forward Modeling Synsedimentary Deformation Associated With A Prograding Steep-Rimmed Carbonate Margin, Phillip Resor

Phillip G Resor

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Teaching Structural Geology Through Integrated Field Observation And Modeling, Phillip Resor Dec 2007

Teaching Structural Geology Through Integrated Field Observation And Modeling, Phillip Resor

Phillip G Resor

Research in Earth and Environmental Sciences is becoming increasingly quantitative and process-based. This trend is driven by the widespread availability of digital data sets and high-power computing as well as the need to develop predictive models of earth processes to address societal problems. To address these changes in the field I integrate traditional aspects of structural geology including field observation and three-dimensional visualization with quantitative process-based methods in a series of topical course modules. Two examples of this approach are: 1) An integrated investigation into rock fracture that includes performing Nick Nickelsen's plaster of paris dike in Jello experiment (Davis …


Photogrammetric 3d Mapping Of The Permian Reef, Nm And Tx, Usa, Phillip Resor, George Bennum, Eric Flodin, Jeremy Fairbanks Dec 2007

Photogrammetric 3d Mapping Of The Permian Reef, Nm And Tx, Usa, Phillip Resor, George Bennum, Eric Flodin, Jeremy Fairbanks

Phillip G Resor

Although the Permian Capitan depositional system is perhaps one of the best-exposed and most thoroughly studied steep-rimmed carbonate systems, the role of synsedimentary deformation in the development of the platform geometry is still poorly understood. We have undertaken an effort to map 3D stratal and structural architecture in two regions of the Guadalupe Mountains, Slaughter and Big Canyons, to better constrain present-day geometry and quantify the distribution and magnitude of syn- and post-depositional deformation. The resulting 3D geologic models serve to inform and constrain mechanical models aimed at understanding the process of synsedimentary deformation, including formation of early fracture systems …


Community-Based Rangeland Rehabilitation: The Tall Ar-Remah Case Study, Raed Al-Tabini, H. Saoub, K. Alkhalidi Dec 2007

Community-Based Rangeland Rehabilitation: The Tall Ar-Remah Case Study, Raed Al-Tabini, H. Saoub, K. Alkhalidi

Raed Al-Tabini

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Community-Based Projects In Jordan's Badia: The Anaqeed Al-Khair Case Study, Raed Al-Tabini, B. Gorman, J. Libbin, R. Grassberger, I. Abuamoud, S. Aloun Dec 2007

Community-Based Projects In Jordan's Badia: The Anaqeed Al-Khair Case Study, Raed Al-Tabini, B. Gorman, J. Libbin, R. Grassberger, I. Abuamoud, S. Aloun

Raed Al-Tabini

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Integrating Geomechanical Modeling And Three-Dimensional Mapping To Constrain Deformation Associated With Growth Of The Permian Capitan Reef Complex, Phillip Resor, Eric Flodin Dec 2007

Integrating Geomechanical Modeling And Three-Dimensional Mapping To Constrain Deformation Associated With Growth Of The Permian Capitan Reef Complex, Phillip Resor, Eric Flodin

Phillip G Resor

The stratal geometry of the Permian Capitan Reef Complex has been influenced by syn-sedimentary deformation including tilting, folding, Previous HitfracturingTop, and faulting of strata. The importance of these effects has been a topic of debate for decades and impacts our understanding of the initial sedimentary geometry as well as the distribution of early-formed fracture systems. We use geomechanical finite element modeling to predict the magnitude and distribution of syn-sedimentary deformation associated with a prograding shelf margin. The model is linear elastic with heterogeneous layering comprised of four principal facies (platform, reef, upper slope, and lower slope/basin). In order to simulate …