Bed type and flow mechanism of deep water sub-lacustrine fan fringe facies:an example from the Middle Permian Lucaogou Formation in Southern Junggar Basin of NW China

Submarine or sub-lacustrine lobe deposits are important reservoirs,but the fan fringe deposits form heterogeneities within deep water fan deposits.Fan fringe facies records the complex sediment gravity flow types.By understanding of the bed types and flow mechanisms,we can identify the fan fringe deposit,which aids in the reconstruction of deep water fan and reservoir evaluations.The Jiucaiyuanzi and Dalongkou sections in the West Bogda Mountains preserve well-exposed 536-m and 171-m thick successions,respectively,of a deep water lacustrine depositional system from the Middle Permian Lucaogou Formation.Bed types of the Lucaogou Formation include high-density turbidite,low-density turbidite,incomplete Bouma-type turbidite,hybrid event beds,and slump deposits.The Lucaogou Formation is interpreted here as a fan fringe facies due to the thin bed thickness that characterize turbidites and hybrid event beds,as well as the predominance of the isolated sheet architecture.Previous studies suggest that these deposits were considered as deposited in a deep water setting due to the absence of wave-related structures.The presence of abundant mud clasts in massive medium-coarse grained sandstone beds reflects the significant erosional capability and interactions between high-density turbidity currents and lake floor.The fan fringe facies here contains amalgamated and thick-bedded homolithic facies(~30%)and thin-bedded heterolithic facies(~70%).The examination of the bed type is of wider significance for facies prediction and reservoir heterogeneity in the sub-lacustrine fan fringe facies.

Identification of hydrovolcanism and its significance for hydrocarbon reservoir assessment: A review

Investigations of modern volcanic eruptions have demonstrated that ancient volcanic eruptions widely involved water,which was thus named as hydrovolcanic eruptions. Hydrovolcanisms are distinctive in many aspects, such as dynamics,eruptive pattern, texture and structure of rock, and vesicularity. First, normal sediments covered directly by volcanic rocks are the indicators of eruption environments. In addition, microfeatures, special structures, lithofacies or facies associations,and geochemical index of volcanic rocks can also provide significant evidences. Moreover, perlitic texture, quenching fragmentation, surface feature, cementation type, vesicularity, and pillow structure, parallel bedding, large-scale low-angle cross-bedding, antidune cross-bedding of pyroclast are keys to indicating hydrovolcanisms. Clearly,these marks are not equally reliable for identifying eruption environments, and most of them are effective and convincible in limited applications only. For explosive eruptions, the most dependable identification marks include quenching textures, vesicularity in pyroclasts and special large-scale cross-bedding. However, for effusive eruptions,useful indicators mainly include pillow structure, peperite and facies associations. Condensation rate of magma,exsolution of volatile affected by eruptive settings and magma—water interaction, and quenching in hydrovolcanisms have an influence on formation and scale of primary pores, fractures and their evolution during diagenetic stage.Therefore, this review provides systematic identification marks for ancient hydrovolcanisms, and promotes understanding of the influence of eruptive environments on hydrocarbon reservoirs of volcanic rocks in oil-gas bearing sedimentary basins.

A non-uniform grid approach for high-resolution flood inundation simulation based on GPUs

In view of the frequent occurrence of floods due to climate change, and the fact that a large calculation domain, with complex land types, is required for solving the problem of the flood simulations, this paper proposes an optimized non-uniform grid model combined with a high-resolution model based on the graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration to simulate the surface water flow process. For the grid division, the topographic gradient change is taken as the control variable and different optimization criteria are designed according to different land types. In the numerical model, the Godunov-type method is adopted for the spatial discretization, the TVD-MUSUL and Runge-Kutta methods are used to improve the model’s spatial and temporal calculation accuracies, and the simulation time is reduced by leveraging the GPU acceleration. The model is applied to ideal and actual case studies. The results show that the numerical model based on a non-uniform grid enjoys a good stability. In the simulation of the urban inundation, approximately 40%–50% of the urban average topographic gradient change to be covered is taken as the threshold for the non-uniform grid division, and the calculation efficiency and accuracy can be optimized. In this case, the calculation efficiency of the non-uniform grid based on the optimized parameters is 2–3 times of that of the uniform grid, and the approach can be adopted for the actual flood simulation in large-scale areas.

Depressive severity associated with cesarean section in young depressed individuals

This cross-sectional study recruited consecutively 347 patients (178 males,169 females) aged 19 to 30 years with a diagnosis of MDD according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,Fifth Edition (DSM-V) criteria who underwent in-person interviews,the mini international neuropsychiatric interview,and physical examinations by experienced psychiatrists at Division of Neuropsychiatry,Department of Neurology,Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University (Beijing,China) between August 20,2015,and December 28,2018.All patients were excluded with anemia,thyroid dysfunction,mental retardation,neurologic conditions,bipolar disorders,schizophrenia,and other mental disorders.Depressive symptoms were assessed with the Hamilton rating scale for depression (HAMD-17) by three experienced psychological testing technicians who were blinded to all subjects' birth delivery types at the Neuropsychological Center of Department of Neurology of Xuanwu Hospital.The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Xuanwu Hospital.As a retrospective study and data analysis were performed anonymously,this study was exempt from the informed consent from patients.

An independent but not identically distributed bit error model for heavy-tailed wireless channels

The error patterns of a wireless channel can be represented by a binary sequence of ones(burst) and zeros(run),which is referred to as a trace.Recent surveys have shown that the run length distribution of a wireless channel is an intrinsically heavy-tailed distribution.Analytical models to characterize such features have to deal with the trade-off between complexity and accuracy.In this paper,we use an independent but not identically distributed(inid) stochastic process to characterize such channel behavior and show how to parameterize the inid bit error model on the basis of a trace.The proposed model has merely two parameters both having intuitive meanings and can be easily figured out from a trace.Compared with chaotic maps,the inid bit error model is simple for practical use but can still be deprived from heavy-tailed distribution in theory.Simulation results demonstrate that the inid model can match the trace,but with fewer parameters.We then propose an improvement on the inid model to capture the 'bursty' nature of channel errors,described by burst length distribution.Our theoretical analysis is supported by an experimental evaluation.