Nonnally oil or gas occupy only a small fraction of the total pore -1. volume in the subsut!l:-ece; the rest of the spJlce contains water_.Sometimes the water associated with the oil is fresh, but usually it is salty. In general, the deeper and older a rock is, the saltier the water it contains. Thr origin of oil-field brines is not well understoo…
In the first place, most chemists work with materials whose chemical formulae are fairly simple, and in which the ratio of the numbers of atoms of one kind to the numbers of atoms of another are small integers, or fractions of small integers. Among such compounds are NaCl, Al203 and Si02• By contrast, the geochemist often stud…
Orientation studies indicate that stream-sediment geochemistry is a potentially useful exploration tec~ique in the Kepala Burung region of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Previously located uranium anomalies and small zones of known base-metal sulphide. mineralisation, are reflected in anomalous concen• trations of these elements in•the stream sedim…
The recognition of the nature of primary and secondary dispersion halos and trains associated with mineral deposits. Although haloesand trains were known for centuries to be associated with metal deposits, the work carried out in the U.S.S.R and Scandinavia in the 1930's and early 1940's systematised the data and permitted it to be used in the most …
Numerous and diverse errors are encountered in applied geochemistry from field collection, sample preparation and chemical analysis. Typographic errors are also involed but frequently neglected. These errors must be controlled and monitored and the quality of the results checked before the results are processed and displayed on maps. This to ensure …
Geochemical prospecting (or exploration) methods for petroleum and natural gas deposits at and near the surface of the ground and the offshore area have not achieved the popularity of geophysical methods. Geochemical methods have been used widely in both the united states and the soviet union, and many new discoveries have been reposrted from these …
Macerals are the microscopically recognizable individual constituents of coal and depending on their quantitative participation and their association, they control the chemical, physical and technological properties of a coal of a given rank. In this new classification (ICCP system 1994) the maceral group has been revised from its previous classific…
As Pointed out by Boyle (1974) in his comprehensivecoverage of element associations of mineral deposits, rarely does a single element concentrate in the Earth's crust• to form a mineral deposit. Generally mineral deposits consist of a suite of elements which have been concentrated because of certain intrinsic chemical properties which depend esse…
Published multi-element stream-sediment exploration geochemical data from new brunswick are used to illustrate some pitfalls of correlation and regression. Large matrics of correlation coefficients. are easly mass-produced.These coefficient are susceptible to suprious values, clustering of samples and the effect of other variables on the relation un…
Preliminary studies have shown that a petrochemical project for the manufacture of ethylene and selected ethylene derivatives using an ethane feedstock extracted from natural gas to be produced from the Arun field would b…