Directory of Geoscience Departments 2015

Directory of Geoscience Departments 2015
Author: Carolyn Wilson
Publisher: American Geosciences Inst
Total Pages: 2140
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

The Directory of Geoscience Departments 50th Edition is the most comprehensive directory and source of information about geosciences departments and researchers available. It is an invaluable resource for individuals working in the geosciences or must identify or work with specialists on the issues of Earth, Environmental, and related sciences and engineering fields. The Directory of Geoscience Departments 50th Edition provides a state/country-sorted listing of nearly 2300 geoscience departments, research departments, institutes, and their faculty and staff. Information on contact information for departments and individuals is provided, as well as details on department enrollments, faculty specialties, and the date and source of faculty and staff's highest degree. New in the 50th edition: Listing of all US and Canadian geoscience theses and dissertations accepted in 2012 that have been reported to GeoRef Information Services, as well as a listing of faculty by their research specialty.

3-D Seismic Interpretation

3-D Seismic Interpretation
Author: M. Bacon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107268702

3-D seismic data have become the key tool used in the petroleum industry to understand the subsurface. In addition to providing excellent structural images, the dense sampling of a 3-D survey makes it possible to map reservoir quality and the distribution of oil and gas. Topics covered in this book include basic structural interpretation and map-making; the use of 3-D visualisation methods; interpretation of seismic amplitudes, including their relation to rock and fluid properties; and the generation and use of AVO and acoustic impedance datasets. This new paperback edition includes an extra appendix presenting new material on novel acquisition design, pore pressure prediction from seismic velocity, elastic impedance inversion, and time lapse seismics. Written by professional geophysicists with many years' experience in the oil industry, the book is indispensable for geoscientists using 3-D seismic data, including graduate students and new entrants into the petroleum industry.

Crustal Permeability

Crustal Permeability
Author: Tom Gleeson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 111916656X

Permeability is the primary control on fluid flow in the Earth’s crust and is key to a surprisingly wide range of geological processes, because it controls the advection of heat and solutes and the generation of anomalous pore pressures. The practical importance of permeability – and the potential for large, dynamic changes in permeability – is highlighted by ongoing issues associated with hydraulic fracturing for hydrocarbon production (“fracking”), enhanced geothermal systems, and geologic carbon sequestration. Although there are thousands of research papers on crustal permeability, this is the first book-length treatment. This book bridges the historical dichotomy between the hydrogeologic perspective of permeability as a static material property and the perspective of other Earth scientists who have long recognized permeability as a dynamic parameter that changes in response to tectonism, fluid production, and geochemical reactions.

America's National Game

America's National Game
Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1911
Genre: Baseball
ISBN:

This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.

Galactic Pot-healer

Galactic Pot-healer
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1994
Genre: Life on other planets
ISBN: 0679752978

What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

Radio Free Albemuth

Radio Free Albemuth
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Voyager
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1999
Genre: Science fiction
ISBN: 9780006482857

As America gasps in a stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars. Will the agents of ominiscent Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the tactics of President Freemont extend the grip?

Amplitude Variation with Offset

Amplitude Variation with Offset
Author: James L. Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1993
Genre: Amplitude variation with offset analysis
ISBN: 9780931830419

This book is intended to be a practical look at seismic amplitude variation with offset (AVO) analysis, a geophysical technique that has dramatically increased the drilling success ration in the Eocene Yegua Formation of onshore Texas. The technique has resulted in a wildcat drilling success rate of fifty percent in the Yegua, a large increase from pre-AVO drilling.