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Powder River Basin Coalbed Methane Financial Model (Prb-Cbm-Fm), W. Thomas Goerold

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

12 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains references.

Overview Of Cbm Issues In The San Juan Basin, Catherine Cullicott

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

3 pages (includes some color illustrations and maps).

Impacts Of Cbm Development On Communities, Gwen Lachelt

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

2 pages.

Agenda: Coalbed Methane Development In The Intermountain West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

306 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm

"July 2002"--Cover

Proceedings of a conference held April 4-5, 2002

Listed as no. 28 in the Research Report Series on the NRLC Recent Publications list

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Coalbed methane development in the Intermountain West : a primer / Gary Bryner -- Coalbed methane development in the Intermountain West : case studies. Coalbed methane in the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico / Catherine Cullicott, Carolyn Dunmire, Jerry Brown, Chris Calwell ; Coalbed methane development in Wyoming's Powder River Basin / Diana Hulme -- Keynote address / Rebecca Watson …

The Hydrology Of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs And The Interplay Of Gas, Water, And Coal In Cbm Production, Leslie Nogaret

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

7 pages (includes color illustrations and map).

Best Cbm D[R]Illing, Completion, Production, Technologies, And Management Practices, Dennis Carlton

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

3 pages.

Cbm Development And Water Issues, Dave Brown

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

7 pages (includes color illustrations).

Coalbed Methane In The Rocky Mountain Region: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, Matthew R. Silverman

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

8 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

Contains references.

Developing Cbm In The Powder River Basin, William T. Brown, Jr.

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

5 pages (includes some color illustrations and maps).

Concluding Comments, Michael Reisner

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

2 pages.

An Overview Of Cbm Exploration And Production, Steve De Albuquerque

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

9 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

Waste Or Wasted? Rethinking The Regulation Of Coalbed Methane Byproduct Water In The Rocky Mountains: A Comparative Analysis Of Approaches To Cbm Produced Water Quantity Legal Issues In Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana And Wyoming, Thomas F. Darin

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

30 pages.

Contains 13 pages of references.

Cbm Development On The Southern Ute Reservation, Bob Zahradnik

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

6 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

The Geology And Production Characteristics Of The Powder River And Other Cbm Basins In Wyoming, Lance Cook

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

7 pages (includes some color illustrations and maps).

A Review Of Cbm Development In The Powder River And Other Wyoming Basins, Don Likwarz

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

6 pages (includes illustrations).

Cbm Water Management: Challenges, Solutions, And Opportunities, Mike Day

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

15 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

Cbm Development, Ranching, And Agriculture, Nancy Sorenson, Jill Morrison

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

5 pages.

Consistency Of Geologic And Geodetic Displacements During Andean Orogenesis, David Hindle, Jonas Kley, Eryn Klosko, Seth Klosko, Timothy H. Dixon, Edmundo Norabuena

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Present-day displacements within the Central Andes are being measured using high precision GPS geodesy. Until now, comparison of such ground motions within deforming plate boundary zones to those on a geologic time scale has not been possible due to lack of sufficient geological data. In the Central Andes, a comparable dataset for the past 25 Ma of mountain building can be reconstructed. Here, we use new interpretations of shortening rates averaged over 25–10 Ma and 10 Ma–present and find that whilst displacement directions have remained virtually constant and parallel, an acceleration has occurred synchronously with a slowing of convergence between …

Determining Flow Type In A Carbonate Bedrock Aquifer, Presque Isle County, Michigan, Bonny Armstrong

Masters Theses

Presque Isle County, Michigan, has a long history of ground water quality problems. Aquifer contamination is most likely the result of large fractures in the bedrock allowing surface water to rapidly reach ground water. The purpose of the study is to l) perform a geochemical investigation of ground water in the bedrock aquifer, 2) suggest the type of ground water flow system present in the study area and characterize the aquifer type, and 3) suggest how the flow system might affect the behavior and transport of contaminants.

Water samples were collected from sixteen wells in the Genshaw Formation, three wells …

Electrical Resistivity Tomography And Induced Polarization Techniques With Paired Vertical Resistivity Probes, Adrian Ezeagu

Masters Theses

The aim of this research is to use electrical resistivity and induced polarization (IP) techniques to image in detail the vertical and lateral distribution of resistivity and chargeability in the subsurface region between two or more boreholes. The method involves installing electrodes mounted on PVC pipes in the boreholes. The distribution of resistivity and chargeability around the boreholes is then calculated. The large number of measurements taken is then inverted to produce tomographs or images showing subsurface distribution of resistivity and chargeability. Four cross-hole measurement arrays (pole-pole, dipole-pole dipole-dipole and pole-dipole) were employed in acquiring tomographic data. The tomographs produced …

Constraints On Ground Motion At Yucca Mountain Provided By Precarious Rocks, Abdolrasool Anebshehpoor, James N. Brune, David Von Seggern, Kenneth D. Smith, Amy J. Smiecinski

Publications (YM)

This report describes the methodology and results of the use of precariously balanced rocks to study seismic hazard at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the site of a potential geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste. Precarious rocks are effectively strong-motion seismoscopes that have been in for place thousands of years. Numerous precarious rocks exist in and near Solitario Canyon, Nevada, immediately above the site of the potential repository. Estimates of toppling accelerations using computer models, physical models, and field tests indicate these rocks would be toppled by ground acceleration of a few tenths of the acceleration of gravity (g). Rock-surface age dating …

Chemical, Isotopic, And Hydrogeologic Investigations Of An Agriculturally Impacted Area, Nottawa Creek Watershed, Calhoun County, Michigan, Gerald A. Unterreiner

Dissertations

A 4 km2 agricultural area within the somewhat poorly drained Nottawa Creek Watershed, south central Michigan, was investigated to help understand transport and transformation processes of nutrients and herbicides to surface water. Geology o f the study area is comprised of a thin glacial drift cover overlying shale bedrock. A one layer, two-dimensional numerical triangular finite element groundwater flow model was developed to evaluate regional groundwater flow. Selected horizontal hydraulic conductivities ranged from 3 x 10‘3 m/day to 107 m/day. Field-scale infiltration modeling with the computer program GLEAMS, substantiated with water level measurements, suggest significant recharge events occur during summer, …

Stratigraphic Analysis Of Diamicton Units In Southern Allegan County, Michigan, Shannon A. Wong

Masters Theses

Two diamicton units from the southern Allegan County, Michigan lakeshore bluffs were identified and differentiated through clay mineralogy by analysis of 7 /10A peak-height ratios and the 2-80 mm crystalline fraction from pebble count results. t-Tests indicate the two units are significantly different. These two units are correlated with the Saugatuck and the Ganges tills of southwest Michigan based on similarities in stratigraphic position and lithologic description as described by Monaghan et al. (1986). Other diamicton samples were collected throughout southwest Michigan, near Moline, Otsego, Bloomingdale, Gobles, and Decatur. In correlating the Saugatuck and the Ganges tills to their inland …

Revel: A Model For Recent Plate Velocities From Space Geodesy, Giovanni F. Sella, Timothy H. Dixon, Ailin Mao

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

We present a new global model for Recent plate velocities, REVEL, describing the relative velocities of 19 plates and continental blocks. The model is derived from publicly available space geodetic (primarily GPS) data for the period 1993–2000. We include an independent and rigorous estimate for GPS velocity uncertainties to assess plate rigidity and propagate these uncertainties to the velocity estimates. The velocity fields for North America, Eurasia, and Antarctica clearly show the effects of glacial isostatic adjustment, and Australia appears to depart from rigid plate behavior in a manner consistent with the mapped intraplate stress field. Two thirds of tested …

A Late Pleistocene And Holocene High-Resolution Glacial And Paleoclimate Record From The Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Northern New Mexico, Jake Armour

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Bog deposits in the Winsor Creek drainage basin, southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico contain a high-resolution record of Pleistocene to Holocene glacial activity. Sediment cores were recovered from an alpine bog (elevation 3,100 m) behind a Pinedale age moraine, 2 km from a high-elevation (-3600 m) cirque. Three cores reached glacial talus and consist of -6 meters of finely laminated to coarsely laminated lake clays, grading into gyttja. Superimposed on this long-term, lake-bog transition record are many distinct coarse-grained detrital packages punctuating times of rapid environmental change.

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) carbon dating, sedimentology, variations in rock magnetic …

Smart Growth And Land Acquisition Priorities, New England Environmental Finance Center

Land Conservation

It is well-known and generally accepted that all undeveloped land in New England cannot forever be protected from development; nor would this be a desirable goal, as continued economic development and population growth are near certainties. For these and other reasons, private land trusts and government agencies generally use explicit criteria to prioritize their land acquisition activities and prospects.

Much land protection in New England and elsewhere, however, has occurred without substantial attention to such land use needs as fostering the best locations for where people will live, businesses will locate, and infrastructure will be built to avoid degrading resources. …

Concentration, Ph, And Surface Charge Effects On Cadmium And Lead Sorption In Three Tropical Soils, Chip Appel, Lena Ma

Earth and Soil Sciences

Reactions of heavy metals with soil are important in determining metal fates in the environment. Sorption characteristics of two heavy metals, Cd and Pb, in three tropical soils (Mollisol, Oxisol, and Ultisol) from Puerto Rico were assessed at varying metal concentrations (0 to 1.2 mM) and pH values (approximately 2 to 7). All soils sorbed more Pb than Cd. Sorption maxima were obtained for each metal for the Oxisol and Ultisol soils, but not the Mollisol. Sorption appeared to depend more on soil mineralogy than organic matter content. Sorption isotherms were linear within the sorption envelope with similar slopes for …

Environmental Impacts And Production Effects Of Subsurface Drainage At An Intensive Apple Orchard Near Donnybrook, Wa, D L. Bennett, Richard J. George Dr

Resource management technical reports

This report documents results of research carried out within the Donnybrook area, Western Australia, to determine appropriate management for shallow groundwater system responsible for waterlogging of horticultural crops. On one irrigated and previously waterlogged orchard block an assessment is made of the role that subsurface water control had on fruit production and soil water conditions. The report focuses on environmental aspects.

Importance Of Soil Texture To Vineyard Management, Thomas J. Rice

Earth and Soil Sciences

No abstract provided.

Improved Soil Management And Cropping Systems For Waterlog-Prone Soils : Results Of The 2000 Season, Derk Bakker, Greg Hamilton, David Houlbrooke, Cliff Spann

Resource management technical reports

The results of the fourth year of a five year research and development project to develop soil management practices and cropping systems to prevent waterlogging and increase the productivity of waterlogged lands in Western Australia. The concept of raised beds was used to alleviate or prevent waterlogging.