Geology

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Good morning. I trust you all had an enjoyable Homecoming. If not, lie to me. I'm in a much better mood today. *smiles pleasantly* Coffee and snacks are near the back, next to the handouts and please remember to sign the roll sheet.

Today we will be discussing how geology relates to mining and other geologically based professions. To a lesser extent, we will also examine how weathering can affect urban development, and why it's never a truly bright idea to build a house on a mountainside without proper preparations.

Developing rules to predict the reservoir properties of deep-water sandstone sheet systems is important. Sheet sandstone reservoirs are difficult to image and seismic commonly yields an over-simplistic view of reservoir architecture. Distal sands that comprise these reservoirs record longitudinal flow transformations that produce facies changes within thin beds that affect property distributions. Complex bed stacking affects the connected reservoir volume. Downstream channel branching within a distributive network progressively decreases channel depth and aerially equilibrates sand volumes producing “seismic sheet” geometries. Sandstone beds onlapping seafloor topography thin and show facies and lithology changes at pinch outs below seismic resolution. Because sheet sandstones dominate outer fan reaches, these reservoirs generally occur in high-cost, ultra-deepwater settings where data is sparse and models are most dependent on rule-based analog information.

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[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee pours himself a large cup of coffee and adds some cream. He leaves out the sugar this morning as, omgz, sugar reminds him of licking the sweet stuff off of Kara's neck and he should be focusing on his studies this morning. Yes.

A muffin and his cup in hand, he finds his seat and looks over the hand out.

The military is often looking for new planets to mine for this or that so today's lesson will be very helpful, he thinks.

[chasingangela]

Angela takes a handout and sits quietly at her desk, listening to the lecture.

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

*signs in and makes notes*

*remembers seeing a bunch of very expensive mountainsides mansions, with very big rocks cozied up to them on one planet.*

[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

Thomasina arrives on time, signs in, takes a pastry from the table at the back and settles into her seat at the table she now shares with Rose.

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

*wanders in and takes a seat in the back, looking like hell warmed over*

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

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[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Draco signs the roll sheet and takes a seat next to Rory. He notices that Rory is paying attention to him or the class for that matter. He decides to let her be for the moment.

[aroseintime.livejournal.com]

Rose signs the roll sheet, gets herself a bagel and some coffee, and grabs a handout. She then sits down to listen to the lecture.

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[teen-twin.livejournal.com]

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[alchemy-4-arson.livejournal.com]

::signs in, takes a handout, and starts in on the coffee.::