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  title info:
    title: Mechanical modeling of the growth of salt structures
  name:
    name part: Mazariegos Alfaro, Ruben Alberto
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Russell, James E.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Berg, Robert R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Bryant, William R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Carter, Neville L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Watkins, Joel S.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 217 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: A 2D numerical model for studying the morphology and history of salt structures by way of computer simulations is presented. The model is based on conservation laws for physical systems, a fluid marker equation to keep track of the salt/sediments interface and two constitutive laws for rocksalt. When buoyancy alone is considered, the fluid-assisted diffusion model predicts evolution of salt structures 2.5 times faster than the power-law creep model. Both rheological laws predict strain rates of the order of 4.0 x 10^-15 s^-1 for similar structural maturity level of salt structures. Equivalent stresses and viscosities predicted by the fluid-assisted diffusion law are 10^2 times smaller than those predicted by the power-law creep rheology. Use of East Texas Basin sedimentation rates and power-law creep rheology indicate that differential loading is an effective mechanism to induce perturbations that amplify and evolve to mature salt structures, similar to those observed under natural geological conditions.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Geophysics."
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1993
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    geographic: Texas, East
  subject:
    topic: Salt domes
    geographic: Texas, East
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Major geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Salt domes
    topic: Mathematical models
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 950531
    record change date: 20200904152715.0
    record identifier: in00001237226
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng