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Recent Submissions
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Ning, Xuewei; 0000-0003-2183-0073 (2023-08-24)
Natural rocks, as key components in energy and environmental geosciences, play crucial roles in groundwater extraction, geological storage of high-level nuclear waste, geothermal energy mining, and petroleum exploration ...
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Zhang, Tao; 0000-0002-8750-1435 (2023-08-24)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: This study covers the application of continuum mechanics in the realm of rock work in geological studies. Continuum mechanics encompasses two major ...
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Zhao, Chen; 0000-0002-2975-0193 (2022-05-09)
The successful development of oil and gas from unconventional reservoirs in the United States proves the high petroleum potential that shale rock reserves. Petrophysical studies on shale rocks are an important part of ...
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Wang, Qiming (2022-05-09)
Natural rock is one of the most important geological attributes on the Earth that have been widely related to human daily life in various aspects. Rocks are usually utilized with respect to their petrophysical properties ...
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Sobhbidari, Farnood; 0000-0001-8072-7098 (2022-12-19)
Understanding geomechanical properties of shales, such as stiffness properties and fracture toughness, is important in different areas of petroleum industry-related activities including fracturing efficiency, petroleum ...
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Wang, Jiayi (2023-05-19)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/16/2025** ABSTRACT: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, ~56 my ago, 170,000y event) is characterized by a negative δ13C excursion into the atmosphere. This ...
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Yin, Binqian (2022-12-15)
The segmentation of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images is critical yet time-consuming for geological studies, as it will need to differentiate the boundaries for different mineral objects to facilitate subsequent ...
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Pulcinella, Joshua (2022-12-09)
Coastal communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico have historically been at risk of flooding from tropical cyclone induced storm surge and extreme precipitation. Relative sea level rise resulting from a combination of ...
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Tian, Hepeng (2022-08-17)
Assembly of the supercontinent Pangea is among the most important tectonic events in late Paleozoic Earth history. The diachronous Laurentia-Gondwana collision destroyed the intervening subduction zone(s) of the Rheic ...
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Jones, Sasha Shanda Karen; 0000-0001-6002-482X (2022-08-24)
Contamination of soils and water from open dump site leachate is a frequent problem in developing nations. Water supplies are threatened when water percolates through the waste, bringing with it a variety of substances, ...
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Oh, Jiwon; 0000-0003-1091-444X (2021-12-10)
Pregnant women are exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) primarily via ingestion of contaminated food, water, and house dust. PFAS in pregnant women can be transferred to their child through the placenta ...
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Bullock, Jessica; 0000-0002-4899-1849 (2020-05-29)
The questions to be answered by this study are whether weather conditions correlate with PM2.5 concentrations, and whether there is a correlation between asthma-related hospital admissions and PM2.5 concentrations. The ...
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Silwal, Sadananda (2019-12-09)
The prevalence of asthma is increasing for both adult and children in eastern Texas. This study examines the spatial and temporal differences in asthma hospital discharge rates and its association with socioeconomic risk ...
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Zhu, Lu; 0000-0001-7343-2531 (2019-09-03)
The Cenozoic topographic evolution of the Rocky Mountains (Rockies) and Great Plains in the western U.S.A. reflect a combination of mantle geodynamic, crustal deformation and surface erosional processes. This region was ...
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Kim, Kyunghoon; 0000-0002-6371-0574 (2020-08-28)
Exposure to semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in indoor environments and its potential impact on human health have been receiving increased public attention, because people in developed countries spend over 80% of ...
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Zhang, Yuxiang; 0000-0003-3367-5293 (2019-05-07)
Petrophysics deals with the physical and chemical properties of petroleum-bearing rocks and their interactions with associated fluids. The investigation of petrophysical properties of interest, such as porosity, specific ...
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Chakrabarty, Puloma; 0000-0001-9181-5157 (2019-05-07)
The Cretaceous Period (145-66 Ma), with no magnetic reversal for ~79 Ma, is generally termed as the Cretaceous Normal Superchron or the Magnetic Quiet Zone. There is evidence of at least two major large scale, global ...
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Al salem, Ohood Bader; 0000-0003-1021-4603 (2019-05-14)
The Fort Worth and Midland Basins in central and West Texas are major petroleum-producing systems in North America. The provenances of the thick Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in both basins are poorly constrained, although ...
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Read, Michael Taylor (2018-12-06)
The Upper Pennsylvanian-Cisuralian (lower Permian) mixed carbonate-siliciclastic strata exposed at Spruce Mountain Ridge, Elko County, Nevada, record the shallow-marine microfauna and oscillating depositional history of ...
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Cao, Nguyen (2019-12-06)
Asthma is a common chronic disease of the airways characterized by recurrent reversible airway obstruction. More than 25 million Americans have asthma. In this study, factors associated with adult asthma related emergency ...
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