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16 Citations
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18 February 2019

A spiritual awakening is necessary to address the global ecological crisis and to bring about an environmental revolution. The aim of this paper is to bring together various passages from Thich Nhat Hanh’s works that refer to a collective consc...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,419 Views
13 Pages

19 July 2016

To investigate how the characteristics of interbeds affect hydraulic fracture propagation in the continental shale formation, a series of 300 mm × 300 mm × 300 mm concrete blocks with varying interbeds, based on outcrop observation and core measureme...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,951 Views
18 Pages

25 October 2023

Weak interlayers in rockslides often become the controlling factor for slope deformation due to their poor physical properties and tendency to undergo argillization. Achieving a comprehensive understanding of the weak interlayers will help us compreh...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,644 Views
19 Pages

20 March 2020

As most of the lithostratigraphic reservoirs in China are thin interbeds, the study of seismic responses in thin interbeds is an integral part of lithologic reservoir exploration. However, at present, the research on seismic reflection coefficients o...

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  • Open Access
1,592 Views
22 Pages

11 January 2024

The horizontal fractures in the strata will close in the compaction effect of overlying strata, while the vertical cracks are widely developed, which can be equivalent to HTI (transverse isotropy with a horizontal axis of symmetry) medium. When an S-...

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  • Open Access
503 Views
13 Pages

16 October 2025

In the shale oil reservoirs, sandstone and shale often overlie each other. This significantly affects the vertical propagation of hydraulic fractures (HFs); however, the underlying mechanisms still remain unclear. This study employs Xsite software to...

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  • Open Access
1,740 Views
22 Pages

Integrated Geomodel Accuracy Enhancement Based on Embedded MPS Geological Modeling for Thin Interbedded Reservoirs

  • Ling Ke,
  • Fengming Ruan,
  • Taizhong Duan,
  • Zhiping Li,
  • Xiangzeng Wang and
  • Lei Zhao

27 September 2023

Continental delta deposits are characterized by strong heterogeneity in the lateral direction; meanwhile, reservoir development is challenged by rapid changes in rock properties. Thus, it is critical to use proper methods for fine characterization to...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,659 Views
15 Pages

15 April 2022

In the face of current turbulent times including climate emergencies, species extinction, the erosion of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism—in short, a suffering world—the authors of this paper propose that education needs to be c...

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  • Open Access
413 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Study on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Sand–Coal Interbed Formations

  • Xuanyu Liu,
  • Liangwei Xu,
  • Xianglei Guo,
  • Meijia Zhu and
  • Yujie Bai

29 September 2025

To investigate hydraulic fracture propagation in multi-layered porous media such as sand–coal interbedded formations, we present a new phase-field-based model. In this formulation, a diffuse fracture is activated only when the local element str...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,716 Views
24 Pages

Degradation of Typical Reverse Sand-Mudstone Interbedded Bank Slope Based on Multi-Source Field Experiments

  • Zhenwei Dai,
  • Luqi Wang,
  • Xiaolin Fu,
  • Bolin Huang,
  • Senlin Zhang,
  • Xuecheng Gao and
  • Xiangrong He

The bank slopes in the Three Gorges Reservoir area (TGRA) have experienced obvious deterioration under the action of the periodic fluctuations in the reservoir water level. Generally, laboratory tests have been used to reveal the evolution trend of t...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,307 Views
13 Pages

28 April 2022

The biggest crisis that we are in nowadays is existential, which is the state of not knowing our true natures or our true selves; hence, we suffer from deep anxiety and we fail to find safety and a way to ground ourselves. In this article, we share o...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,555 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2023

Aiming at the problem of serious deformation and difficult support in the surrounding rock of the near-vertical coal–rock-interbedded roadway, this paper studies the stress distribution characteristics of the roadway surrounding the rock based...

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  • Open Access
644 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2025

The third member of the Shahejie Formation (Es3) in Dongying Sag is noteworthy for its abundance of laminated shale, considerable thickness, and high organic matter content, with carbonate interbeds playing a crucial role in reservoir properties. The...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,233 Views
14 Pages

18 January 2024

The present study assesses, using a theoretical approach, the performances of two widely used fixed-bed reactors for the ethanol-to-butadiene (ETB) one-stage (Lebedev) process: multibed adiabatic reactors (MBAR) with inter-bed heating and a multitubu...

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  • Open Access
229 Views
19 Pages

28 November 2025

Lacustrine fine-grained sediments commonly exhibit well-developed laminations, with significant variations in structural characteristics such as thickness and continuity, which are closely related to depositional environments and genetic processes. T...

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  • Open Access
1,523 Views
17 Pages

5 March 2025

Vertical seismic profiling (VSP) has garnered widespread attention because of its ability to provide high-quality seismic data. Owing to the unique characteristics of VSP observation systems, conventional multiple-wave imaging methods designed for su...

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  • Open Access
2,436 Views
17 Pages

18 May 2022

Shore sand bar reservoirs have attracted much attention as one of the target intervals with the greatest potential for petroleum exploration and development in marine sedimentary basins. Nevertheless, due to lack of effective research methods, it is...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,833 Views
20 Pages

22 August 2019

Hydraulic fracturing is an effective method for developing unconventional reservoirs. The fracture height is a critical geometric parameter for fracturing design but will be limited by a weak interface. Fracture containment occurs when fracture propa...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,291 Views
21 Pages

Comprehensive Characterization and Impact Analysis of Interlayers on CO2 Flooding in Low-Permeability Sandstone Reservoirs

  • Taskyn Abitkazy,
  • Lin Yan,
  • Khaled Albriki,
  • Bahedaer Baletabieke,
  • Dawei Yuan,
  • Yingfu He and
  • Akhan Sarbayev

27 January 2025

In low-permeability sandstone reservoirs (LPSR), impermeable interlayers significantly challenge carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and enhance oil recovery (CO2-EOR) processes by creating complex, discontinuous flow units. This study ai...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,796 Views
29 Pages

28 October 2024

This study explores the intersection of mindfulness practice and environmental activism within the Earth Holder Berlin (EHB) group, a part of the Order of Interbeing (O of I) inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh. EHB, established in 2020, integrates the princ...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,382 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2022

The human response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a concerning decline in empathy for each other and the planet. A dualistic conception of mind and body coupled with a capitalist society that requires belief in an inherent self to fuel consumer...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,599 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2023

It has been proven that the quality factor (Q) is important for marine sediment attenuation attribute representation and is helpful for sediment classification. However, the traditional spectral-ratio (SR) method is affected by the interference effec...

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  • Open Access
2,125 Views
26 Pages

2 April 2023

Unconventional well technology is often used as one of the most important means to reduce costs and increase efficiency in oil fields. There are many methods for unconventional well type optimization, but there are relatively few studies on whether t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,884 Views
26 Pages

Reconstructing the Gorte and Spiaz de Navesele Landslides, NE of Lake Garda, Trentino Dolomites (Italy)

  • Giacomo Ruggia,
  • Susan Ivy-Ochs,
  • Jordan Aaron,
  • Olivia Steinemann,
  • Silvana Martin,
  • Manuel Rigo,
  • Sandro Rossato,
  • Christof Vockenhuber,
  • Giovanni Monegato and
  • Alfio Viganò

25 September 2021

We applied a multi-method approach to reconstruct the Gorte rock avalanche (85–95 Mm3) located at the northeastern end of Lake Garda. The combination of field mapping, characterization of bedrock discontinuities, Dan3D-Flex runout modeling and dating...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,423 Views
18 Pages

6 September 2020

The 1963 Vajont landslide is a reference example of large rockslides involving clay interbeds emplaced in sedimentary rock masses in correspondence with the basal rupture zone (thinly stratified cherty limestone of the Fonzaso Formation dated to Midd...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,989 Views
25 Pages

First Report of Small Skeletal Fossils from the Upper Guojiaba Formation (Series 2, Cambrian), Southern Shaanxi, South China

  • Mei Luo,
  • Fan Liu,
  • Yue Liang,
  • Luke C. Strotz,
  • Jiayue Wang,
  • Yazhou Hu,
  • Baopeng Song,
  • Lars E. Holmer and
  • Zhifei Zhang

24 June 2023

A small skeletal fossil assemblage is described for the first time from the bioclastic limestone interbeds of the siltstone-dominated Guojiaba Formation, southern Shaanxi, China. The carbonate-hosted fossils include brachiopods (Eohadrotreta zhujiahe...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
650 Views
18 Pages

9 May 2025

Taking the Guojiawan coal mine in the Shenfu Mining Area as a case study, five evaluation factors (aquifer thickness, brittle–plastic rock thickness ratio, core recovery rate, number of sandstone–mudstone interbeds, and fractal dimension...

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1,902 Views
34 Pages

Mineralogy and Fluid Inclusion Constraints on the Genesis of the Recently Discovered Ag-(Ni-Co-Sb-As-Hg ± Bi) Vein Ore Shoot Mineralization in the Aouli Pb-Zn District (Upper Moulouya, Morocco)

  • Khadra Zaid,
  • Mohammed Bouabdellah,
  • Gilles Levresse,
  • Mohamed Idbaroud,
  • Erik Melchiorre,
  • Ryan Mathur,
  • Michel Jébrak,
  • Adriana Potra,
  • Johan Yans and
  • Max Frenzel
  • + 3 authors

22 June 2025

Unusual Ag-(Ni-Co-Sb-As-Hg ± Bi)-bearing fault-fill vein ore shoot mineralization set in a gangue of quartz, fluorite, and barite has been identified in Morocco’s Aouli deposit. The Paleozoic host rocks consist of a succession of Cambria...

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33 Citations
10,603 Views
23 Pages

Depositional Sedimentary Facies, Stratigraphic Control, Paleoecological Constraints, and Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Late Permian Chhidru Formation (Western Salt Range, Pakistan)

  • Syed Kamran Ali,
  • Hammad Tariq Janjuhah,
  • Syed Muzyan Shahzad,
  • George Kontakiotis,
  • Muhammad Hussain Saleem,
  • Usman Khan,
  • Stergios D. Zarkogiannis,
  • Panayota Makri and
  • Assimina Antonarakou

3 December 2021

The Upper Indus Basin, in Pakistan’s western Salt Range, is home to the Zaluch Gorge. The sedimentary rocks found in this Gorge, belonging to the Chhidru Formation, were studied in terms of sedimentology and stratigraphy, and provide new insigh...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,954 Views
18 Pages

10 May 2019

In this study, data obtained from the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation in the central Athabasca Oil Sands, northeastern Alberta, Canada, are examined and used to establish the architecture of stacked fluvial and estuarine tidal bar deposits. A tot...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,413 Views
35 Pages

23 April 2025

Salt caverns serve as underground storage for crude oil, natural gas, compressed air, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen. Key stages of cavern development for storage purposes include design, construction, storage, and abandonment. The design phase address...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,478 Views
20 Pages

31 October 2023

As the SAGD steam chamber and production performance in heavy oil reservoirs under fluvial sedimentation environment are heavily impacted by reservoir heterogeneity, an innovative strategy was proposed in this study coupling rock dilation and multi-l...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,471 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2024

Internal depositional architecture and sand body distribution are the main challenges faced in the development of gravity flow channel deposits in China. Despite significant progress in the exploration and development of gravity flow deposits in rece...

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  • Open Access
834 Views
20 Pages

Gypsum and salt rocks have been proven to act as seals for abundant oil and gas reserves on a global scale, with significant potential for hydrocarbon preservation and evolution. Notably, the sedimentary dynamics of non-evaporitic gypsum in terrestri...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,867 Views
32 Pages

23 January 2022

Silicified wood occurs abundantly in Middle Miocene flows and sedimentary interbeds of the Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) in central Washington State, USA. These fossil localities are well-dated based on radiometric ages determined for the host l...

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  • Open Access
362 Views
24 Pages

5 October 2025

Predicting favorable reservoirs controlled by source-to-sink systems in rift basins is a current research focus. Using seismic, core, drilling, logging, and thin-section data, this paper systematically identifies fan types and their reservoir charact...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,669 Views
29 Pages

26 October 2019

The origin of natural gas and the mechanisms that lead to gas accumulation in the marine calcareous mudstone of the Lower Silurian Shiniulan Formation in northern Guizhou province are special and complicated. According to a combination of qualitative...

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  • Open Access
1,060 Views
24 Pages

Tectonic Rift-Related Manganese Mineralization System and Its Geophysical Signature in the Nanpanjiang Basin

  • Daman Cui,
  • Zhifang Zhao,
  • Wenlong Liu,
  • Haiying Yang,
  • Yun Liu,
  • Jianliang Liu and
  • Baowen Shi

4 August 2025

The southeastern Yunnan region in the southwestern Nanpanjiang Basin is one of the most important manganese enrichment zones in China. Manganese mineralization is mainly confined to marine mud–sand–carbonate interbeds of the Middle Triass...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
919 Views
28 Pages

Occurrence Mechanism of Crude Oil Components in Tight Reservoirs: A Case Study of the Chang 7 Tight Oil in the Jiyuan Area, Ordos Basin, China

  • Mengya Jiang,
  • Dongxia Chen,
  • Qiaochu Wang,
  • Fuwei Wang,
  • Xiujuan Wang,
  • Kuiyou Ma,
  • Yuchao Wang,
  • Wenzhi Lei,
  • Yuqi Wang and
  • Zaiquan Yang
  • + 2 authors

14 March 2025

Tight oil is an important unconventional hydrocarbon resource. The differences in occurrence characteristics between light components (LCs) and heavy components (HCs) of tight oil profoundly affect its mobility and recovery. Current research has focu...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,905 Views
20 Pages

The Effect of Hydration on Pores of Shale Oil Reservoirs in the Third Submember of the Triassic Chang 7 Member in Southern Ordos Basin

  • Pengfei Zhao,
  • Xiangyu Fan,
  • Qiangui Zhang,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Mingming Zhang,
  • Jiawei Ran,
  • Da Lv,
  • Jinhua Liu,
  • Juntian Shuai and
  • Hao Wu

16 October 2019

Shale oil is an unconventional kind of oil and gas resource with great potential. China has huge reserves of shale oil, and shale oil resources are abundant in the third submember of the Triassic Chang 7 member in the southern Ordos Basin. At present...