Machine learning strategies for lithostratigraphic classification based on geochemical sampling data: A case study in area of Chahanwusu River, Qinghai Province, China

Based on the complex correlation between the geochemical element distribution patterns at the surface and the types of bedrock and the powerful capabilities in capturing subtle of machine learning algorithms,four machine learning algorithms,namely,decision tree(DT),random forest(RF),XGBoost(XGB),and LightGBM(LGBM),were implemented for the lithostratigraphic classification and lithostratigraphic prediction of a quaternary coverage area based on stream sediment geochemical sampling data in the Chahanwusu River of Dulan County,Qinghai Province,China.The local Moran’s I to represent the features of spatial autocorrelations,and terrain factors to represent the features of surface geological processes,were calculated as additional features.The accuracy,precision,recall,and F1 scores were chosen as the evaluation indices and Voronoi diagrams were applied for visualization.The results indicate that XGB and LGBM models both performed well.They not only obtained relatively satisfactory classification performance but also predicted lithostratigraphic types of the Quaternary coverage area that are essentially consistent with their neighborhoods which have the known types.It is feasible to classify the lithostratigraphic types through the concentrations of geochemical elements in the sediments,and the XGB and LGBM algorithms are recommended for lithostratigraphic classification.

Integrating Lithostratigraphic Units and GIS-Analysis Techniques to Modified Surface Water Quality Index

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of using Bicarbonate and Calcium parameters as alternatives to the lithostratigraphic units covered the catchment area, on water quality index (WQI) values that have been implemented with GIS technique at Wadi Al-Arab Dam. The analyzed results (by WQI method) have been used to depict water quality for the two approaches. Based on physico-chemical parameters, the calculated values for WQI over the 3-year for study period were 169, 168, and 157, respectively. While the WQI values were 184, 183 and 172, respectively, as a result of incorporated Bicarbonate and Calcium parameters in WQI calculations that significantly contributed to increasing the WQI. The elevated values may be attributed to the influence of carbonate stone dissolution and mechanical erosion under weathering conditions that are prevalent during winter season in the catchment area. As a consequence of lithostratigraphic unites product and GIS technique integration and normalization processes, most of water quality ranks are good and only autumn season has poor water quality in the 2012 and 2013, while in 2014 it has good water quality in the same season. The WQI values increase in general trend from winter to autumn seasons during the study period that may be referred to outflow by daily consumption, evaporation rising, and seepage water. The analysis shows that the modified water quality values of the Wadi Al-Arab Dam Reservoir (WADR) vary after using Bicarbonate and Calcium parameters by constant value. Generally, the results signify that the WADR is not polluted based on the physical and chemical characteristics of water.

Extraction and Analysis of Lithostratigraphic Information From Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner Imagery in Arid Region

Thermal infrared multispectral remote sensing is a new technology for resources exploration which was applied to geological research field in the past decade.At present, its development of data acquisition technique, application technqiue, and basis re-

Geologic Characteristics of Volcanic Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Exploration Directions in China

Volcanic rocks are distributed widely in China, which are important exploration targets. By analyzing many discovered volcanic hydrocarbon reservoirs all over the world, the authors summarized the geologic characteristics of the formation of volcanic hydrocarbon reservoirs in China, and gave further exploration directions and advices. （1） There are mainly Carboniferous-Permian, Jurassic-Cretaceous, Paleogene-Neogene volcanic rocks in oil- and gas-bearing basins in China, which are mainly distributed in the Junggar Basin, Songliao Basin, Bohai Bay Basin, etc. There are mainly intermediate rocks and acidic rocks in east China, and intermediate rocks and basic rocks in west China. They primarily develop in intracontinentai rift settings and island arc environments. （2） Porefissure reservoirs are distributed widely in basins, which are volcanic rocks mainly in explosive and effusive facies. （3） Volcanic hydrocarbon reservoirs are chiefly near-source lithostratigraphic hydrocarbon reservoirs, and the oil and gas accumulation is predominantly controlled by lithotypes, faults and structural positions. （4） Deep-seated oil and gas reservoirs in the Songliao Basin and Carboniferous volcanic hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Junggar Basin are potential giant volcanic gas provinces, the volcanic hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Bohai Bay Basin and Santanghu Basin are favorable for oil and gas reserves increase, and volcanic rocks in the Turpan Basin, Sichuan Basin, Tarim Basin have exploration potentiality. （5） The technology series of oil and gas exploration in volcanic rocks have been preliminarily formed.

Phanerozoic Quartz Arenite Formation and Sequence-Analytical Patterns: Indirectly Relating to Major Impacting and Super Plume Volcanism, Jordan, Arabian Plate

This paper deals with indirect effects of major impacting throughout the Early Paleozoic resp. with those of super plume activity during the Early Cretaceous, both applied to the siliciclastic series of Jordan deposited on the Arabian Platform, Arabian Plate. Its focus is mainly directed on gases released by both processes (CO2, SO2, NOx, HCl, HF) and the relating acids, challenged by experiments and microscopic analysis of grain mounts and thin sections that reveal chemical instability of quartz and ultrastable heavy minerals (i.e. tourmaline) under high acidity (pH °C - 90°C). According to Lopatin’s Time/Temperatur-Index the Lower Cambrian reached the onset of hydrocarbon generation (liquid window) during the Lower Early Cretaceous. Unstable heavy minerals (apatite, garnet, hornblende, epidote, zoisite/clinozoisite) are generally absent in quartz arenites while in arkosic sandstones of marine environment carbonate cement and primary clay minerals (illite) provide conservation. As known since the eighties, the K/T-event’s indirect effects had global influence on Earth’s surface sediments and atmospheric chemistry by wildfires, hot whirl storms, acidic “sturz rain”, dust, soot, darkness, loss of photosynthesis, toxic metals, gases and relating acids. All of them are here concerned and applied to major impacting throughout the Early Paleozoic using the impact data of Price (2001);while superplume volcanism during Cretaceous led to the opening of the South Atlantic accompanied by the cyclic outflow of the Para?a/Etendeka Flood Basalts and relating gases in a gigantic scale (137 - 127 Ma). Assuming that the gases cause similar global effects on Earth’s surface sediments, an according result may be expected in form of quartz arenites and their sequence-analytical patterns (cyclic SBs, MFSs).*

Characteristics of Sediment Supply and Sediment Dispersal in Binhai District of Qikou Sag,Central Huanghua Depression

The Qikou sag is the largest hydrocarbon-rich sag in the central Huanghua depression of Bohaiwan basin.It formed as a result of Tertiary rifting and was mainly filled with Cenozoic siliciclastic sediments about 8000-10000 m thick.The petroleum exploration of Binhai district in Qikou sag hardly gained breakthrough all through because of previous ambiguous understanding of spatial and temporal patterns