paralic

paralic

[pə′ral·ik]
(geology)
Pertaining to deposits laid down on the landward side of a coast.
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The excessive discharges of nutrients from domestic and industrial effluents, combined with urban and agricultural runoff determine the enrichment of organic and inorganic nutrients in paralic ecosystems (Borja et al., 2012; Silva et al., 2013).
Living and dead Foraminifera as bioindicators in Saquarema Lagoon System, Brazil
These coal basins originated from deposition of Carboniferous deposits in paralic and limnic environments.
APPLICATION OF SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (PSInSAR) IN ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY SURFACE DEFORMATIONS IN MINING AREAS. CASE STUDIES FROM CZECH REPUBLIC AND POLAND
The Paleocene-Eocene to Recent Akata Formation is a prodeltaic, mainly marine shale unit overlying the Cretaceous and is overlain by the Oligocene-Miocene to Recent frequent alternations of sands and shales unit, the paralic Agbada Formation, which is the delta front.
Cretaceous-Tertiary Foraminifera and Palynomorphs from Djega Section and Inferred Paleodepositional Environments, Rio Del Rey Basin, Cameroon, West Africa
Ajdanlisky, "Distribution of diagenetic alterations in fluvial and paralic deposits within sequence stratigraphic framework: evidence from the Petrohan Terrigenous Group and the Svidol Formation, Lower Triassic, NW Bulgaria," Sedimentary Geology, vol.
Material Exchange and Migration between Pore Fluids and Sandstones during Diagenetic Processes in Rift Basins: A Case Study Based on Analysis of Diagenetic Products in Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, East China
The high ash seems to be due to presence of these coal near margin of swamps and probably the paralic nature of these swamps give rise to high sulphur, according to calorific value the rank of these coal ranges for subbituminous B to medium volatile bituminous, highest rank in Pakistan coals.
COAL RESOURCES OF PAKISTAN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES TO SOME COALFIELDS OF KPK
In the early Middle Jurassic (Aalenian - Bajocian), ephemeral coastal to paralic, brackish to freshwater, environments developed: they consists of well-bedded marly to clayey deposits rich in charophytes, lacustrine ostracods and microflora (Ashraf et al., 1984).
The Middle Jurassic Alpine Tethyan unconformity and the eastern Sardinia - Corsica Jurassic high: a sedimentary and regional analysis
Stratigraphic division and lithological developing characteristics of Upper Paleozoic in Ordos basin (Yan et al., 2013) Stratum Upper series Shiqianfeng Formation Permian Middle series Shihezi Formation Upper Lower series Shanxi Paleozoic Formation Upper series Taiyuan Formation Carboniferous Middle Benxi series Formation Main Thickness (m) main lithology sedimentary facies mud shale, 100-250 paralic lakes sandstone the upper is pelite intercalating sandstone; 120-570 lakes, rivers lower is interbedded sandstone and shale coal seam, 100-400 delta and sandstone, tidal flat mud shale coal seam, sandstone, mud shale, 50-400 tidal flat and carbonatite coal seam, interbedded sandstone and 0-560 lagoon and shale, tidal flat intercalating carbonatite Table 3.
Geological characteristics of unconventional gas in coal measure of Upper Paleozoic coal measures in Ordos Basin, China
* shallow marine paralic (at or near sea level) and shelf sands laid down on an unconformable surface of a regressive marine shale (Barnes and others, 1996); and
Frac sand sources in the United States
Paralic (2009) Distributed task-based execution engine for support of text-mining processes, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, SAMI 2009, pp.
On the inverse problem for generalized one-sided concept lattices
The Lucaogou Formation was formed in a large-scale paralic lacustrine basin with very high organic matter productivity in a reducing water environment favorable to preservation of organic matter.
Formation conditions of Jimusaer oil shale at the northern foot of Bogda Mountain, China
Plesiosaur remains from non-marine to paralic sediments.
Late Cretaceous plesiosaur teeth from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada

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