As a critical link connecting groundwater and vegetation, the vadose zone’s lithological structural heterogeneity directly influences soil water distribution and vegetation growth. A comprehensive understanding of the ecological effects of the...
This study addresses pivotal scientific questions regarding the evolution of overburden strata during high-intensity mining in the Shendong coal mining area. Through a comprehensive research methodology combining physical similarity tests and numeric...
This study integrates physical similarity experiments with numerical simulations to examine how overburden lithology influences roof caving behavior and stress field evolution at a longwall mining face. The results demonstrate that overburden strengt...
In this paper, four lithological parameters, that is, thermal conductivity, particle size, porosity, and saturation, are investigated by combining experimental observations with numerical simulations to study the influence laws and mechanisms of acti...
Interbedded shale reservoirs commonly contain multiple lithologies, such as shale and limestone, resulting in heterogeneous long-term fracture conductivity under identical proppant conditions. This lithological heterogeneity introduces uncertainty in...
The deep brine reservoirs in the Jianshishan area of the Qaidam Basin are abundant in strategic mineral resources. Traditional extraction methods suffer from insufficient reservoir energy and low recovery efficiency, while CO2 flooding technology off...
A concrete structure built on rock foundation works together with the connected rock mass, which has a significant effect on the mechanical behaviors of the concrete structure. To study the effect of lithology on the mechanical and damage behaviors o...
The mining of shallow coal seam groups triggers mine water inrush and ecological environment destruction. Effective groundwater prevention and control requires controlling the compaction and seepage characteristics (CSCs) of broken rock in goaf. In t...
In the drive to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, decarbonisation of heating is essential. This can be facilitated by geothermal energy, but drilling geothermal wells is associated with high risks and costs. The use of preexisting wells (e.g., exhau...
Reservoir lithology identification is an important part of well logging interpretation. The accuracy of identification affects the subsequent exploration and development work, such as reservoir division and reserve prediction. Correct reservoir litho...
Accurate identification of lithology in petroleum engineering is very important for oil and gas reservoir evaluation, drilling decisions, and petroleum geological exploration. Using a cross-plot to identify lithology only considers two logging parame...
Lithology identification is essential for formation evaluation and reservoir characterization, serving as a fundamental basis for assessing the potential value of oil and gas resources. However, traditional models often struggle with identification a...
Lithology identification is the basis for sweet spot evaluation, prediction, and precise exploratory deployment and has important guiding significance for areas with low exploration degrees. The lithology of the shale strata, which are composed of fi...
Lithology identification is an essential fact for delineating uranium-bearing sandstone bodies. A new method is provided to delineate sandstone bodies by a lithological automatic classification model using machine learning techniques, which could als...
The identification of lithology and fluids in reservoirs is the key to the quantitative characterization of gas reservoirs. However, the Ma541 Member of the Majiagou Formation in the Ordos Basin is characterized by strong reservoir heterogeneity, var...
Lithology identification is the fundamental work of oil and gas reservoir exploration and reservoir evaluation. The lithology of volcanic reservoirs is complex and changeable, the longitudinal lithology changes a great deal, and the log response char...
Remote sensing (RS) technology has significantly contributed to geological exploration and mineral resource assessment. However, its effective application in vegetated areas encounters various challenges. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive ov...
Lithology classification stands as a pivotal research domain within geological Remote Sensing (RS). In recent years, extracting lithology information from multi-source RS data has become an inevitable trend. Various classification image primitives yi...
Xinfeng County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, China, is a typical vegetation-covered area that suffers from severe attenuation of rock and mineral spectral information in remote sensing images owing to dense vegetation. This situation limits the...
ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection) satellite imagery is useful in assisting lithologic mapping and, however, its effectiveness is yet to be evaluated for lithologic complex such as tectonic mélange. The Mugagangri Group (MG),...
Lithology identification is a key task in petroleum geological exploration and development, essential for evaluating sweet spots and characterizing reservoirs. A significant challenge in lithology identification is the insufficient accuracy of tradit...
Refined lithology identification is an essential task, often constrained by the subjectivity and low efficiency of classical methods. Computer-aided automatic identification, while useful, has seldom been specifically geared toward refined lithology...
Lithology identification during drilling plays a vital role in geological and geotechnical exploration, as it facilitates the early detection of formation-related hazards and supports the development of optimized mining strategies. Traditional lithol...
Lithology classification is a crucial step in the prospecting process, and polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (Pol-SAR) imagery has been extensively used for it. However, despite significant improvements in both information content of Pol-SAR imag...
Reservoir lithology identification is the basis for the exploration and development of complex lithological reservoirs. Efficient processing of well-logging data is the key to lithology identification. However, reservoir lithology identification thro...
Lithological mapping using satellite images, particularly hyperspectral data, helps in effectively defining the best initial targets for regional exploration. In this study, ZY1-02D hyperspectral image (HSI) data with moderate spectral and very high...
The extraction of lithological information in areas with high vegetation coverage presents numerous challenges, particularly in identifying concealed lithological features. This study focuses on a typical high-vegetation coverage area in Taiwan Provi...
In this study, the satellite data of ASTER and Landsat 8 OLI were used for the discrimination of lithological units covering the Khyber range. Of the 24 tested band combinations, the most suitable include 632 and 468 of ASTER and 754 and 147 of OLI i...
Lithological classification is a pivotal aspect in the field of geology, and traditional field surveys are inefficient and challenging in certain areas. Remote sensing technology offers advantages such as high efficiency and wide coverage, providing...
This study investigates the application of hyperspectral image space–spectral fusion technology in lithologic classification, using data from China’s GF-5 and Europe’s Sentinel-2A. The research focuses on the southern region of Tuan...
This study investigated the soil geochemistry associated with magnetite-bearing Fe–Cu mineralization in northeastern Aksaray (Türkiye). Reservoir normalization, threshold-based geochemical anomaly classification, and multivariate statistic...
Rock lithology recognition plays a fundamental role in geological survey research, mineral resource exploration, mining engineering, etc. However, the objectivity of researchers, rock variable natures, and tedious experimental processes make it diffi...
Tight sandstones produce an increasing amount of natural gas worldwide. Apart from identifying the gas enrichment, the predictions of lithology and permeable zones are crucial for the prediction of tight gas sandstones. In the present study, a seismi...
Facing engineering challenges of real-time and high-precision recognition of strongly heterogeneous formations during directional drilling, it is crucial to address the issues of sparse lithology geological labels and multi-source lithology identific...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are vital for nutrient cycling, but how lithology across bulk soil and the rock–soil interface influence AMF communities remains poorly understood. We investigated the effects of karst (dolomite, limestone) an...
Lithological mapping is essential for geological studies, mineral exploration, and environmental assessment. Satellite remote sensing combined with machine learning provides a scalable, cost-effective approach for regional lithological discrimination...
In the middle and late stages of gas field development, the establishment of a fine reservoir lithological model is an important basis for drilling well pattern adjustment and potential exploitation. The SU 36-11 area of the Ordos basin in China is d...
To investigate the shear behavior of rock mass joint surfaces with varying roughness and lithology, this study introduces a novel experimental framework that combines high-precision 3D printing and direct shear testing. Ten artificial joint surfaces...
The deformation and re-crushing characteristics of different lithological caving crushed gangues in mine goaf directly affect the overburden strata movement, which significantly affects the surface subsidence of mining goaf. The effect of particle si...
Accurate lithological mapping is a crucial juncture for geological studies and mineral exploration. Hyperspectral data provide the opportunity to extract detailed information about the geology and mineralogy of the Earth’s surface. Machine lear...
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) faces complex challenges in identifying underground rock formations and lithological structures. The diversity, intricate shapes, and electromagnetic properties of subsurface rock formations make their accurate detectio...
The Chang 6 sandstone reservoir of the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin is one of the tight-oil-rich intervals in the basin. Owing to the strong heterogeneity and complex lithology of the Chang 6 reservoir, lithology and fluid ide...
Real-time drilling analysis requires knowledge of lithology at the drill bit. However, logging-while-drilling (LWD) sensors in the bottom hole assembly (BHA) are usually positioned 2–50 m (7–164 ft) above the bit (called the sensor offset...
Lithology identification provides a crucial foundation for various geological tasks, such as mineral exploration and geological mapping. Traditionally, lithology identification requires geologists to interpret geological data collected from the field...
This study uses Gonjo County, Chamdo City, Tibet, as the study area and addresses the challenges of lithological complexity and low efficiency of conventional geological surveys in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. This study applies the first systema...
Remote sensing offers distinct advantages for lithological mapping, but its ability to detect underlying bedrock is limited in covered areas, whereas geochemical data are constrained by sparse sampling and low spatial resolution. To address these cha...
The purpose of this study is to clarify the difference in oil production rules of conglomerate reservoirs with different pore structures during surfactant–polymer (SP) binary flooding and to ensure the efficient development of conglomerate rese...
To investigate the dominant factors and instability mechanism of surrounding rock deformation in cross-mining roadways, a systematic study was conducted using theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and response surface methodology to examine the...
Vegetation cover can affect the lithological mapping capability of space- and airborne instruments because it obscures the spectral signatures of the underlying geological substrate. Despite being widely accepted as a hindrance, few studies have expl...
In recent decades, lithological mapping techniques using hyperspectral remotely sensed imagery have developed rapidly. The processing chains using visible-near infrared (VNIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) hyperspectral data are proven to be availabl...
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