Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Oil sands
- 1Automated lithological mapping
- 1Deltas
- 1Hyperspectral imaging
- 1Sedimentological feature enhancement
- 1Tide-dominated
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Fall 2016
The Athabasca oil sands of northeastern Alberta, Canada, are one of the largest accumulations of crude bitumen in the world. Drill core sampling is the principal method for investigating subsurface geology in the oil sands industry. Cores are logged to record sedimentological characteristics and...
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Fall 2011
The Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation in east-central Alberta contains the second largest oil sands deposit in Canada. In the Cold Lake area, 43 cored intervals were examined and classified based on physical and biogenic sedimentary structures. Core analysis and stratigraphic mapping...