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Cold seepages: An economic toolfor hydrocarbon appraisal
No full text"Spontaneous cold fluid seepages are a renowned phenomenon occurring in a wide range of geologic and geodynamic settings, including deep sea fans, rapidly subsiding basins, and compressive tectonic settings (e.g., Dimitrov, 2002; Morley et al., 2011; Oppo et al., 2013, 2014). Cold seepages are marked by various struc- tures, both on land and offshore, such as mud volcanoes (MVs), methane-derived authigenic carbonates (MDACs), and chemo- symbiotic communities. Their formation mechanism requires the increase of pore-fluid pressure above the lithostatic gradient with the subsequent upward fluid migration through hydro- fracturing or along carrier beds and tectonic discontinuities."
"Cold seepages have long been investigated, especially for the information that they may provide for the exploration of hydrocarbons present in different types of reservoirs associ- ated with this phenomenon (e.g., Link, 1952; Heggland, 1998; Abrams, 2005). Although the relation between cold seepages and hydrocarbon reservoirs has not been completely enlightened in numerous settings, as in fold and thrust belts, it is established that the occurrence of gas, frequently associated with oil, is a common characteristic that most of the seepage areas show. In particular, the spontaneous leakage of oil and gas represents a prime indication of hydrocarbons occurrence in the subsurface and valuable source of information on the petroleum system. The associated fluids also provide evidence of the geochemistry of deep-seated hydrocarbons. A useful example of this association is represented by the oil and gas field exploited near MVs along the coast and offshore in the Caspian Sea (e.g., Planke et al.,"
"2003; Davies and Stewart, 2005; Oppo et al., 2014; Oppo and"
"Capozzi, 2016).
Productivity-generated annual laminae in mid-Pliocene sapropels deposited during precessionally forced periods of warmer Mediterranean climate
No full textEarly Burial Mud Diapirism: Lateral Overpressure Transfer and Slope Failure in a Deformed Foredeep
Full text linkUnderstanding triggers and evolution of post-depositional sediment intrusion is of major importance to decrease the risk associated with hazards to infrastructure and environment from events such as submarine landslides and fluid escape. Whereas deep-sourced intrusions (>1 km) are widely documented, early burial examples are poorly recognized and have been described only in large deltas. Their formation had not yet been documented in deformed foredeeps. Here, we show an exceptionally well-exposed, early burial mud diapir in the Northern Apennines fold and thrust belt. Disequilibrium compaction and tectonic basin tilt led to lateral pressure migration within shallow (<200 m) sediments. As a result, near-lithostatic overpressure developed at the basin margin causing sediment intrusion and destabilization of the slope. This work shows that early burial mud diapirs can develop in deformed foredeeps with similar characteristics to their deep-rooted counterparts, with important implications for hazard assessment in areas non-traditionally prone to shallow overpressure buildup
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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