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Redox, crust formation and copper porphyries
Speaker: Cin-Ty Lee, Professor, Geology Department, Rice University
The ongoing transition to renewable energies requires access to different types of natural resources, such as the critical metals needed to support scaled up electrical grids and energy storage. The field of Earth sciences must keep up with these trends by training the next generation in mineral exploration both from an applied and basic research perspective. Here, I will talk about the wonders of how geological processes align and conspire to scavenge and transport trace metals from the scale of hundreds of kilometers and concentrate these metals into a small ore deposit. I will focus on the journey of copper from the mantle through the crust to form a copper porphyry deposit. We will talk about how the interplay of tectonics, magmatism, and erosion in subduction zones influence the petrogenetic evolution of magmas and the ability for evolved magmas to mobilize and concentrate copper.
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Characterization and Modeling of Compound Flooding Events and Their Environmental Impacts
Переглядів 47Місяць тому
Speaker: Amin Kiaghadi, Ph. D., P. E. Coastal Modeling Team Lead, Coastal Science, Texas Water Development Board
Identifying the Production Potential of Lithium in Shale Reservoirs
Переглядів 130Місяць тому
Speaker: Kyung Jae Lee, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston Tackling climate change is one of the major challenges facing the U.S. today, and it has led to significant efforts to decarbonize energy use as a way to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Major ways to achieve this energy transition involve electrifying transportation and increasing ...
Interpretation from Space: salt tectonics and deposition in Iran using remote-sensing imagery
Переглядів 80Місяць тому
Speaker: Frank J. Peel, Visiting Research Scientist, Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL), Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin The composition and structure of the sediments around salt bodies is important to science and industry. In the subsurface, we interpret this from limited data - but seismic and well data from the subsurface can on...
Perfect Storms: A Regional Earth System Modeling Platform for Coastal Hazards in the Gulf of Mexico
Переглядів 21Місяць тому
Speaker: Z. George Xue, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University With a changing climate, the northern Gulf of Mexico suffers from various coastal hazards, including sea-level rise and land loss, eutrophication and hypoxia, ocean acidification, hurricanes, and compound flooding. A key toolset to untangle the various processes invol...
Modeling Nearshore Stratigraphic Response to Structural Deformation
Переглядів 1302 місяці тому
Speaker: Xuesong Ding, Ph. D., Research Assistant Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin Sequence stratigraphic models are used to predict basin-margin facies changes, which have been related to sea level. However, those models do not always account for the role of sediment supply in controlling stratigraphy. Moreover, they can un...
An Overview of WGRFC Capabilities
Переглядів 372 місяці тому
Speaker: Gregory Waller, Service Coordination Hydrologist, NWS Gulf River Forecast Center The National Weather Service mission is to provide observations, forecasts, and warnings in order for the public to make the best decisions to protect life and property. The role of a National Weather Service River Forecast Center is to take the latest weather and hydrologic information available to provid...
Toward Sustainable Coastal Environments: Coastal Hazards and Machine Learning
Переглядів 322 місяці тому
Speaker: Jun-Whan Lee, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Coastal regions are facing more uncertainties and risks from coastal hazards like tsunamis and storm surges because of growing populations and rising sea levels. Even though computers have become more powerful, physics-based models struggle to fi...
Sediment transport over complex salt topography: fill & spill revisited
Переглядів 982 місяці тому
Speaker: Dr. Gillian Apps, Research Fellow, Jackson School of Geosciences, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin Published fill & spill models focus on depositional sequences in a single 2D structural section strike to perceived sediment transport direction. However, in salt provinces and deepwater fold and thrust belts, fill & spill occurs within a strongly 3-dimensiona...
International Developments in Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment
Переглядів 1652 місяці тому
Speaker: Tim Dixon, General Manager, IEAGHG There is acceleration in developments with offshore CCS deployment, from a project aspect and from a regulatory aspect. IEAGHG works with the Gulf Coast Carbon Center to organize a workshop series on Offshore CO2 Geological Storage. In addition, this is a very active area of work in the international treaty for marine protection, the London Protocol. ...
Composite Confining Systems: Rethinking petroleum seals for CO2 storage
Переглядів 1983 місяці тому
Speaker: Alex Bump, Ph. D., Research Scientist Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin Petroleum accumulations prove the capability of geologic reservoirs, traps, and seals to store buoyant fluids safely, securely, and permanently. That experience suggests targeting similar systems to sequester CO2 emissions in the quest to mitigat...
Using sand tank experiments to model CO2 plume migration and trapping
Переглядів 5103 місяці тому
Speaker: Hailun Ni, Ph. D., Research Assistant Professor, Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Jackson School of Geosciences, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin Sand tank experiments can be used to model and de-risk geologic CO2 storage by helping us better understand how heterogeneities large and small affect CO2 plume migration and trapping. In this talk I will present two typ...
Playing for Keeps: Novel Concepts for Carbon Sequestration
Переглядів 6703 місяці тому
Speaker: Alex Bump Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a key technology for climate change mitigation that relies on geologic reservoirs to permanently sequester CO2 rather than venting it into the atmosphere. Experience with oil and gas proves the ability of geologic reservoirs, traps and seals to retain bouyant fluids on long timescales. Those same goals, constraints and boundary conditions c...
Innovative Teams, Impactful Research
Переглядів 1945 місяців тому
Although the Bureau of Economic Geology is the oldest research organization of The University of Texas, it continues to evolve and expand the frontier of innovative energy, environmental and energy economics research. Its teams of geoscientists, economists and engineers are answering the boldest research questions in areas ranging from geothermal energy to carbon sequestration to the real costs...
Geological Net Zero: How we will stop fossil fuels from causing global warming
Переглядів 8055 місяців тому
Speaker: Myles Allen, Director of the Oxford Net Zero Initiative, Professor of Geosystem Science in the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, Department of Physics, University of Oxford With a changing climate, the northern Gulf of Mexico suffers from various coastal hazards, in a remarkably short space of time, net zero has become common currency. Yet as net ...
Modeling the Potential for Geothermal Electricity in the United States
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Modeling the Potential for Geothermal Electricity in the United States
Statistics and Attributes of Earthquakes Across Texas
Переглядів 1326 місяців тому
Statistics and Attributes of Earthquakes Across Texas
Retooling Supervised Machine Learning for Data-Driven Hydrothermal Resource Assessments
Переглядів 716 місяців тому
Retooling Supervised Machine Learning for Data-Driven Hydrothermal Resource Assessments
Surge and Flooding in Coastal Areas Due to Natural Hazards, Sediment Transport and Structural Damage
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Surge and Flooding in Coastal Areas Due to Natural Hazards, Sediment Transport and Structural Damage
Structural Geology and Crustal Evolution of the Sierra Madre Oriental During the Mexican Orogeny...
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Structural Geology and Crustal Evolution of the Sierra Madre Oriental During the Mexican Orogeny...
Developing new fast tools for assessing coastal compound flood hazards
Переглядів 3038 місяців тому
Developing new fast tools for assessing coastal compound flood hazards
Multi-physics simulation of a floating offshore wind turbine
Переглядів 2998 місяців тому
Multi-physics simulation of a floating offshore wind turbine
Nonstationary compound flood hazard assessment for coastal communities
Переглядів 899 місяців тому
Nonstationary compound flood hazard assessment for coastal communities
Predictive multiphase flow assessments of fluid-mineral interactions during CO2 and H2 storage
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Predictive multiphase flow assessments of fluid-mineral interactions during CO2 and H2 storage
From Earth to the Cloud: Harnessing Open Source Tools for Cloud-based Geospatial Analysis
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From Earth to the Cloud: Harnessing Open Source Tools for Cloud-based Geospatial Analysis
Aquifer Recharge and Sustainable Aquifer Management - Climate Resilient WASH and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aquifer Recharge and Sustainable Aquifer Management - Climate Resilient WASH and Sub-Saharan Africa
The Origin of Modern Atolls: Challenging Darwin’s Deeply Ingrained Theory
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The Origin of Modern Atolls: Challenging Darwin’s Deeply Ingrained Theory
Insights from GRACE Satellites on Global Water Resources
Переглядів 462Рік тому
Insights from GRACE Satellites on Global Water Resources
The Acceleration of Climate Change and the Complexity of the Energy Transition
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The Acceleration of Climate Change and the Complexity of the Energy Transition
Origins and Habitats of Super-Giant Fields
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Origins and Habitats of Super-Giant Fields

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @joesample3796
    @joesample3796 День тому

    TY Basil - love your content, sharing far & wide!!!

  • @TheAnarchitek
    @TheAnarchitek 12 днів тому

    Doesn't it stand to reason, the titanic forces necessary to push quadrillions of tons of rock miles into the sky came from an impact collision? Or, more accurately, a series of impact collisions, Earth doesn't compress and expand in some weird routine way that pushes, or pulls, outward, so the motive force had to be external.

  • @Dwrkprnt
    @Dwrkprnt Місяць тому

    How good is NRELs OpenFAST for Time Domain coupled assessment?

  • @jacksprat9972
    @jacksprat9972 Місяць тому

    Very good video. You are way ahead of the curve. Does the part at time stamp 42:29 about high PO4 in olivine that crystalizes fast have anything to do with the origin of carbonatites?

  • @rakkassan2187
    @rakkassan2187 Місяць тому

    Thank you all for your time and for sharing this presentation.

  • @mapache_del_sur
    @mapache_del_sur Місяць тому

    Makes sense that Austin has the bat caves. It’s interesting how it’s farm land east of the escarpment. We always noticed it in a simpler way, that it’s flatter and more green east of I-35. Thanks for the insight, really cool video.

  • @alitheia4946
    @alitheia4946 2 місяці тому

    Lacking scientific explanation

  • @7inrain
    @7inrain 2 місяці тому

    First heard of that model 2 days ago from a lecture from Nick Zentner. Fascinating how new (or in this case: partly old) evidence can overturn what was thought to be common wisdom. Lets hope that more evidence can be collected and the issue can finally be laid to rest.

  • @uncleryan3393
    @uncleryan3393 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for sharing

  • @cybernescens
    @cybernescens 4 місяці тому

    This is by far the most enlightening and rational lecture and approach I have ever heard on the subject. How can we help getting this information into the hands of policy makers?

  • @TheJagjr4450
    @TheJagjr4450 5 місяців тому

    There are entirely too many people being paid to do nothing except analyze nonsense. Until environmental science can account for EVERY SINGLE VARIABLE which contributes to the climate, we have no idea EXACTLY what problems we MAY BE CREATING for the future by interferring in the earth's cycle. I beleive that the sudden cessation of chlorinated hydro carbons had the effect of causing a temp spike.. WHY WOULD IT NOT HAVE CAUSED THIS? The earth had been slowly changing cycling to compensate for the chloro floro carbons AND THEN all of a sudden they are gone... the earth now has to change to mitigate a different alteration, do you think that such a large complex system can account for a sudden CHANGE, from what had been steadily increasing for the prior 60-80 years to suddenly completely devoid of it? BTW any carbon released from digging materials out of the earth is CARBON which has always been in the EARTH's CARBON CYCLE, and had been naturally sequestered. Natural sequestration occured in the past and there is no reason to beleive it will not happen again... why? because raised C02 levels produce a GREENING of the planet, which will in turn will absorb more PLANT FOOD/C02. PLUS higher C02 levels actually makes plants more resistant to DROUGHT!

  • @rodsquad8341
    @rodsquad8341 5 місяців тому

    which company do you send them out to for chemical analysis

  • @habibashamsy5177
    @habibashamsy5177 5 місяців тому

    How can we collect data?

  • @berniefynn6623
    @berniefynn6623 5 місяців тому

    ICE MELTING DOES NOT RAISE SEA LEVELS.

  • @berniefynn6623
    @berniefynn6623 5 місяців тому

    WE HAD HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS IN THE PAST AND COOLER TEMPS, ANOTHER COLD MORNING IN MID SUMMER, HOW MANY PERSONAL JETS ARE FLYING AROUND GOING TO CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCES.

  • @frankknight7968
    @frankknight7968 5 місяців тому

    It's all a big money spinner. Isn't it Myles?

  • @michaelharrison9340
    @michaelharrison9340 5 місяців тому

    The Tom Nelson YT channel contains talks from experts who disagree with the anthropogenic global warming agenda. It should be obvious to anybody not captured by the alarmist agenda that net zero is a scam.

  • @Don-kr5tp
    @Don-kr5tp 5 місяців тому

    Man made CO2 causing climate change is the biggest hoax/scam/shakedown of all time.

  • @JK-nk6tl
    @JK-nk6tl 5 місяців тому

    Or you could accept the mountain of evidence from real science that prove that CO2 can not be a driver of climate...

  • @KenJohnson-xr1tk
    @KenJohnson-xr1tk 5 місяців тому

    The IPCC has been a scientific fraud from the beginning. When their first draft report went out the data set used in their models did not support any climatological catastrophes. Instead of accepting the normal scientific discipline of changing or discarding one's theory, in order to keep the institution alive, the "scientists" chose to change the data. The 'little ice age " data from the i300-1400's in the original data set magically disappeared. Look up "The Truth About Greenhouse Gasses" written by Dr. Will Happer, a real scientist.

  • @mechanicjamz
    @mechanicjamz 5 місяців тому

    This climate agenda is bout human population control we have very little control of the climate changes 😂😂😂

  • @paulb9453
    @paulb9453 5 місяців тому

    Fantastic factcheck presentation. Since 2000, China almost eliminated energy poverty to the tune of of supplying hundreds of millions of people with electrons from coal and hydro. That's a bad thing apparently. Anti-coal narratives will be the most obvious and largest form of net zero failure and maintaining fuel poverty, while decarbonising coal is easy, the will power is lacking.

  • @CBultmann
    @CBultmann 5 місяців тому

    Why is nobody asking if those advisors and experts had ever been right before with their climate doomsday predictions? In the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star from April 13 1931? “Will melting ICEBERGS Engulf WORLD?”. So called experts and scientist warned the public of a pending catastrophe where by the year 1950 Manhattan would be flooded. And if all the ice one the planet is going to melt see level would rise by 150 feet. When climate science has failed for the last century in predicting future events, why do we believe them now.

  • @orsisrutherford4705
    @orsisrutherford4705 5 місяців тому

    This is BS science

  • @daveandrews9634
    @daveandrews9634 5 місяців тому

    Net zero is gross ignorance!!

  • @James-hb8qu
    @James-hb8qu 5 місяців тому

    If you look at the actual data, which you are never presented, you see three things very clearly. 1) the data shows that the Earth isn't warming. 2) The data that is manipulated by people shows the Earth is warming rapidly, 3) the process used to manipulate the data is fraudulent.

  • @spex357
    @spex357 5 місяців тому

    How will we stop this scam, as so much is invested in it. The word bandwagon springs to mind. Co2 at 0.04% of the Atmosphere is supposed to be in control of the temperature. Clouds determine the temperature, and the sea controls the amount of them. I'm hoping it gets as warm as the Romans had it, or maybe the Medieval warm period.

  • @GrowlingBearMedia
    @GrowlingBearMedia 5 місяців тому

    Real tittle: How we lie, so the tyrannical elite can keep their power. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

  • @alexd7466
    @alexd7466 5 місяців тому

    well, good news: all climate models projected temperatures too high, which becomes clear now that real measurement data is coming in after over 30years of satelite data. The real measurement data shows 0.1C per decade, while all models projected 0.2 up to 1C per decade. The models where ALL wrong. The talk begins with claiming that we reach 2C in 3 decades, which in reality (as the data now shows) is 0.3C. And that amount isn't unusual, as it happened many times in the past (both cooling and warming). A shame that Oxford employs such swindlers - it used to be a place of real science.

    • @daveandrews9634
      @daveandrews9634 5 місяців тому

      That’s the truth! Well said!

    • @andrewchristie2713
      @andrewchristie2713 5 місяців тому

      Heard one solar physicist comment that were still warming from the lows of the maunder minimum

  • @nickbagnall
    @nickbagnall 5 місяців тому

    A nutter who believes he can stop the earth from warming should be in an asylum, not a university... A pig in the money trough of alarmism.

  • @chi-jenyang9752
    @chi-jenyang9752 5 місяців тому

    What it takes to net zero is a permanent COVID trajectory. Therefore, the answer is bio-terrorism.

  • @jamesconger8509
    @jamesconger8509 6 місяців тому

    Great talk and great questions.

  • @user-zx9bp8rx7t
    @user-zx9bp8rx7t 6 місяців тому

    Go Shukuru nd friends 👍

  • @digitalearth8103
    @digitalearth8103 6 місяців тому

    Thanks

  • @digitalearth8103
    @digitalearth8103 6 місяців тому

    Thank you ❤

  • @cposch2004
    @cposch2004 6 місяців тому

    According to this, what exactly was responsible for the building of the Southern Rockies in Colorado?

  • @imaginanalyst3317
    @imaginanalyst3317 6 місяців тому

    This is totally awesome. It cleans up confusion about the Salinian block being in between the Franciscan and Nacimiento blocks. Some thought there could have been over a hundred miles of sinistral motion along the Sur-Nacimiento fault on top of SAF dexteal motion. That seemed like a ridiculous explanation to me. Another explanation was that the Salinian block squeezed into the Franciscan/Nacimiento accretionary wedge, from a southern california/mexico origin point where the granite batholith fit to the southern end of the sierras. That was also clunky. The hit and run model basically claims there was a much broader accretionary wedge and the northward shearing of the insular subcontinent slid the Salinian block and Nacimiento block up along the central coast of california *prior* to SAF displacement

  • @peggieincolfaxca3818
    @peggieincolfaxca3818 7 місяців тому

    fascinating!

  • @taiyeogunsanya2976
    @taiyeogunsanya2976 7 місяців тому

    Hi, am interested in analysing sample, how do I go about it?

  • @lorrinbarth1969
    @lorrinbarth1969 7 місяців тому

    The West Coast Baha-BC story is becoming established science. But the story of the Colorado Rockies still seems hand wavy to me. Then East of there we have an ocean. All are different parts of the same story. Who is going to tie it all together?

  • @VladRepin
    @VladRepin 7 місяців тому

    Leva's voice has not changed at all! :) The same as it was 30 years ago.

  • @andrewyokel-deliduka799
    @andrewyokel-deliduka799 7 місяців тому

    The Stuart Batholith and Swakane Gneiss are both in central Washington state, not northwest WA.

  • @earthexpanded
    @earthexpanded 7 місяців тому

    These dates are quite fascinating as they relate to the Ontong Java Nui hypothesis ("New evidence for the Ontong Java Nui hypothesis" Tejada et al. 2023 paper for example). Ontong Java Plateau is proposed to have formed as a single unit with Manihiki and Hikurangi Plateaus at 125-120Ma, and to have broken up 118-86Ma, with the plateaus moving apart from one another from 86-40Ma. It is further worth noting that the Pinon Formation in Ecuador is considered to be a piece of the Manhiki Plateau that is proposed by Reynaud et al. in their 1999 paper "Oceanic plateau and island arcs of southwestern Ecuador: their place in the geodynamic evolution of northwestern South America" to have "not been transported passively by the oceanic plate during the whole 123-80Ma tie-span. Therefore, the hotspot responsible for the generation of the Pinon Formation may have been located closer to the Ecuadorian margin." In other words, there is evidence to suggest that a component of the Ontong Java Nui plateau complex was in the region of Ecuador, and thus the Ontong Java Nui complex also has evidence that it formed nearer to the western margin of South America than present models indicate. This would put the OJN complex much nearer also to the area where all these terranes in Baja-BC proposals are generally originating from. There is thus a high probability that there is a very important relationship between the OJN formation, its breakup, and its spreading apart, to the "hit-and-run" motions of terranes in western North America. This connection really strains the plausibility of plate tectonics, however. It, instead, is far more readily explained as part of an earth expansion model. In fact, it is possible to interpret the entire magnetic anomaly map of the Earth as being the result of undercurrents below the crust that flowed in all directions (from the area of Eastern Pakistan as a location where they erupted from the mantle itself) and this brings to light a highly anomalous but revealing structure in the area of Fiji--between the OJP, MP, and HP's. Namely, a high magnetic intensity anomaly in an oval shape that is surrounded by a "Figure-8" structure to the east and west. Below it and above it are additional peculiarities, but most significantly coming out of its northern section is a "fracture zone" like structure that goes in a straight line upward and then branches off like a trident shape. To the left of this is the OJP while to the right is the MP and the main conduit--if positioned along the western margin of North America at an earlier time in Earth's expansion history--that goes upward would provide a mechanism for why these terranes were caused to "hit-and-run" North America. In addition, the flow seemingly caught at the bend from BC to Alaska, which would help explain the clockwise rotation of North America as well. There is much more evidence to these concepts than can be put into a quick comment on a UA-cam video, but, regardless of the model being incorporated, the relationship of the formation and breakup and separation of the Ontong Java Nui complex is unequivocally related to the accretion of terranes onto northwestern North America's margin.

  • @koksalan75
    @koksalan75 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for the video. Why is ideal depth between 500 and 2000m? Why not deeper? What is determining the ideal depth?

    • @princee9385
      @princee9385 3 місяці тому

      At such depth, the compressed gas could be safely stored within the geostatic temperature and pressure suitable for the long term storage however such pressure would be monitored and must be less than the pressure are the LCCS.

    • @koksalan75
      @koksalan75 3 місяці тому

      What if we store deeper? ​@@princee9385

  • @desktoprhyme3996
    @desktoprhyme3996 7 місяців тому

    Great conversation y’all, very informative!

  • @dianesantrock4322
    @dianesantrock4322 8 місяців тому

    He is deliberately and intentionally lying. He is deluding himself if he thinks he comes off as believable.

  • @user-rz2yd7wx5r
    @user-rz2yd7wx5r 8 місяців тому

    Excellent research

  • @Siletzia
    @Siletzia 8 місяців тому

    Excellent presentation, Dr. Gray. And a shout out to what's now SOU!

  • @Sir_punchwood
    @Sir_punchwood 8 місяців тому

    These are fantastic, keep it up!

  • @Sir_punchwood
    @Sir_punchwood 8 місяців тому

    LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO