Because many of these reservoirs are found in sedimentary basins, they study the formation of these basins, as well as their sedimentary and tectonic evolution and the present-day positions of the rock units.

This extension was responsible for the formation of many thick intracontinental sedimentary basins including the present Atlas.

Geologic processes include the uplift of mountain ranges, the growth of volcanoes, isostatic changes in land surface elevation ( sometimes in response to surface processes ), and the formation of deep sedimentary basins where the surface of Earth drops and is filled with material eroded from other parts of the landscape.

Another expression of lithospheric stretching results in the formation of ocean basins with central ridges ; The Red Sea is in fact an incipient ocean, in a plate tectonic context.

Basin modelling is the term broadly applied to a group of geological disciplines that can be used to analyse the formation and evolution of sedimentary basins, often but not exclusively to aid evaluation of potential hydrocarbon reserves.

The Nectarian period encompasses all events that occurred between the formation of the Nectaris and Imbrium impact basins.

The Early Imbrian is defined as the time between the formation of the Imbrium and Orientale impact basins.

In water purification plants, there is usually a high energy, rapid mix unit process ( detention time in seconds ) where the coagulant chemicals are added followed by flocculation basins ( detention times range from 15 to 45 minutes ) where low energy inputs turn large paddles or other gentle mixing devices to enhance the formation of floc.

Other deposits are located in the Timan-Pechora and Volga-Urals basins ( in and around Tatarstan ), which is an important but very mature province in terms of conventional oil, holds large amounts of oil sands in a shallow permian formation.

This has led to the hypothesis that mantle plumes contribute to continental rifting and the formation of ocean basins.

The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.

Examples of such processes include mountain building, the formation of sedimentary basins, postglacial rebound of regions such as Fennoscandia, plate tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes.

In geology, his work included sedimentation in isostatically driven tectonic basins, the active margins of continental plates, physical chemistry of evaporite and pelagic diagenesis, documentation of granulite formation, catastrophic consequences of meteorite impacts, extinction of life forms and the limnology of Lake Zurich.

According to an in-depth analyses by Barley and others ( 2005 ), 2. 78 billion years ago submarine magmatism culminated with the eruption of extensive suites of mantle plume derived komatiites at 2. 72 to 2. 70 Ga. Extensive hydrothermal activity produced volcanic massive sulfide mineralization and banded iron formation ( BIF ) deposition in anoxic arc-related basins.

They can lead to the formation of tropical cyclones in the north Atlantic and eastern north Pacific basins.

Lunar scientists suspect that this plain may have resulted from deposits of ejecta from the formation of large impact basins such as Mare Imbrium or Mare Orientale.

IODP focuses on ocean basins to study the interdependence of physical, chemical, and biological processes with particular emphases on factors controlling climate change, the vast circulation of fluids within Earth ’ s crust, the nature of life on and within Earth, and the dynamics of tropospheric formation and recycling.

Ekeka's formation marks a record for the earliest formation of a tropical cyclone in either the Eastern or Central Pacific basins.

Additionally there is the formation of sedimentary basins which means the margin was quiescent enough that sediments could accumulate.

Actual Polesine territory is, geologically speaking, of recent formation, created by drifts taken by rivers Po and Adige, and subsequently from human modifications.

It is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm, and the earliest formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.

The need to understand the processes of basin formation and evolution are not restricted to the purely academic.

It is also located at the antipode of the Mare Orientale impact basin, and may be associated with the formation of that feature.

Following the SELENE mission, scientists proposed that volcanism in Mare Moscoviense was active for at least ~ 1. 5 Ga following the formation of the Moscoviense basin, but the formation of the mare as the result of a meteorite cluster impact, rather than from volcanism, has also been proposed based on the energy required to melt the lava in Mare Moscoviense.

Samples obtained of the Fra Mauro formation during Apollo 14 suggest that the impact that formed the Imbrium basin is no older than 4. 25 billion years.

The Late Imbrian is defined as the time between the formation of the Orientale basin, and the time at which craters of a certain size ( D < sub > L </ sub >) have been obliterated by erosional processes.

has also been identified from the middle Miocene in the La Venta formation, Magdalena River basin, Colombia.

Crater counts date Syrtis Major to the early Hesperian epoch ; it postdates formation of the adjacent Isidis impact basin.

The second oldest known Oldowan tool site comes from the Shungura formation of the Omo River basin.

Approximately 2 million years ago, the formation of the fault known as the Kalahari-Zimbabwe axis, which runs from the Zimbabwe capital Harare through its second-largest city Bulawayo and ends in the eastern side of the Kalahari, created an enormous basin and forced these rivers to flow into and fill up the basin.

Anzin was once the centre of important coal mines of the Valenciennes basin belonging to the Anzin Company, the formation of which dates to 1717.

The formation of intermontane basin / lake environments during the Eocene resulted from mountain building and uplift of the Rocky Mountains ( late Cretaceous Sevier orogeny and the Paleogene Laramide orogeny ).

Reflecting pools are often designed with the outer basin floor at the rim slightly deeper than the central area to suppress wave formation.

The formation of a salt dome begins with the deposition of salt in a restricted marine basin.

Such weaknesses would cause the partition of tectonic deformation and uplift into the eastern and western cordillera, leaving the necessary space for the formation of the altiplano basin.

The underlying crustal weakening resulted in the formation of the large bowl of the basin.

Warkalli formation along with Quilon formation represents sediments laid down in the Kerala basin that existed during the Mio-pliocene times.

For example, the Hammersley Basin is a Proterozoic sedimentary basin where up to 1200 million years of sedimentation is preserved within the intact sedimentary stratigraphy, with up to 300 million years represented by a single lithological unit of banded iron formation and shale.

Explaining the formation of the embayment requires explaining how part of a mountain range became a basin.

One of the NASA missions to the Moon under study would send a sample-return lander to the South Pole-Aitken basin, the location of a major impact event that created a formation nearly across.

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Vimy Ridge itself was principally defended by the ad hoc formation based under I Bavarian Reserve Corps commander General of Infantry Karl Ritter von Fasbender.

The ad hoc formation, based under I Bavarian Reserve Corps commander Karl Ritter von Fasbender, was the principal defending formation with three divisions responsible for manning the frontline defences opposite the Canadian Corps.

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