Seismic imaging of fractures in reservoirs Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston Commercial production of unconventional resources has introduced many disruptive changes to the energy industry ranging from business aspects to technologies. As of now, about 2/3 of the U.S. oil production is from shale whereas such production was nearly nonexistent a decade ago. Previously, seismic […]
Volcanic CO2 flux into the atmosphere Marie Edmonds (Cambridge University) Volcanoes are a primary mechanism for the transfer of carbon from the interior of Earth (mantle and crust) to the surface environment. Over Earth history, volcanic outgassing has played a central role in setting the atmospheric concentration of CO2. Quantifying the magnitude of the volcanic […]
Multiphase flow in the subsurface carbon cycle from source to sink Hugh Daigle (University of Texas, Austin) Carbon often moves through the subsurface in fluid phases that are distinct from and immiscible with water. These may include methane generated by microbial activity, oil and gas generated from organic source rocks, or carbon dioxide injected into […]
Instructors Rajdeep Dasgupta, Andre Droxler, Melodie French, Helge Gonnermann, Cin-Ty Lee, Adrian Lenardic, Caroline Masiello, Jeff Nittrouer, Mark Torres, Laurence Yeung tentative list of topics Deep Earth and planetary carbon – Dasgupta group Deep Earth-atmosphere interactions from mantle dynamics perspective – Lenardic group Tectonism, magmatism and carbon cycling – Lee group Weathering and carbonate […]
Deep mantle roots and continental emergence: implications for whole-Earth elemental cycling, long-term climate, and the Cambrian explosion Cin-Ty A. Lee, Jeremy Caves, Hehe Jiang, Wenrong Cao, Adrian Lenardic, N. Ryan McKenzie, Oliver Shorttle, Qing-zhu Yin & Blake Dyer International Geology Review 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2017.1340853 Elevations on Earth are dominantly controlled by crustal buoyancy, primarily through variations […]
Lithospheric foundering and underthrusting imaged beneath Tibet Min Chen, Fenglin Niu, Jeroen Tromp, Adrian Lenardic, Cin-Ty A. Lee, Wenrong Cao & Julia Ribeiro Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15659 (2017), doi:10.1038/ncomms15659 Long-standing debates exist over the timing and mechanism of uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and, more specifically, over the connection between lithospheric evolution and […]
When: April 15, 2017 Where: Birding at High Island and Anahuac NWR with Pete Vail What to expect: peak of bird migration, thousands of shorebirds, hundreds of colorful songbirds, and lunch on a salt dome rimmed by oil wells! What to bring: binoculars (if you have them, but not absolutely necessary), hat, sunscreen, water, lunch, […]
Episodic nature of continental arc activity since 750 Ma: A global compilation Wenrong Cao, Cin-Ty Lee, Jade Star Lackey Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2017) 461:85-95 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.044 Continental arcs have been recently hypothesized to outflux large amounts of CO2 compared to island arcs so that global flare-ups in continental arc magmatism might drive long-term greenhouse […]
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