Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 150, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 4, 2012 (open access)

Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 150, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 2, 2012 (open access)

Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 2, 2012

Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 2, 2012
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 151, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 (open access)

Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 151, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 5, 2012
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), December 2013 (open access)

North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), December 2013

Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date: December 1, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), December 2015 (open access)

North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), December 2015

Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), December 2010 (open access)

North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), December 2010

Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date: December 1, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies (open access)

Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies

This report provides background on regulatory requirements, controversies and legal challenges to mountaintop mining, and recent Administration actions. Congressional interest in these issues also is discussed, including legislation in the 111th Congress seeking to restrict the practice of mountaintop mining and other legislation intended to block the Obama Administration’s regulatory actions.
Date: December 2, 2013
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pahute Mesa Well Development and Testing Analyses for Wells ER-20-7, ER-20-8 #2, and ER-EC-11, Revision 1 (open access)

Pahute Mesa Well Development and Testing Analyses for Wells ER-20-7, ER-20-8 #2, and ER-EC-11, Revision 1

This report analyzes the following data collected from ER-20-7, ER-20-8 No.2, and ER-EC-11 during WDT operations: (1) Chemical indicators of well development (Section 2.0); (2) Static hydraulic head (Section 3.0); (3) Radiochemistry and geochemistry (Section 4.0); (4) Drawdown observed at locations distal to the pumping well (Section 5.0); and (5) Drilling water production, flow logs, and temperature logs (Section 6.0). The new data are further considered with respect to existing data as to how they enhance or change interpretations of groundwater flow and transport, and an interim small-scale conceptual model is also developed and compared to Phase I concepts. The purpose of well development is to remove drilling fluids and drilling-associated fines from the formation adjacent to a well so samples reflecting ambient groundwater water quality can be collected, and to restore hydraulic properties near the well bore. Drilling fluids can contaminate environmental samples from the well, resulting in nonrepresentative measurements. Both drilling fluids and preexisting fines in the formation adjacent to the well can impede the flow of water from the formation to the well, creating artifacts in hydraulic response data measured in the well.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Ruskauff, Greg
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 2016 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2016
Creator: Wells, Tommy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 2016 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 21, 2016
Creator: Wells, Tommy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 14, 2016 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 2016
Creator: Wells, Tommy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 7, 2016 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 2016
Creator: Wells, Tommy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Deepwater Coral Distribution and Abundance on Active Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms and Decommissioned Rigs-to-Reefs Platforms (open access)

Deepwater Coral Distribution and Abundance on Active Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms and Decommissioned Rigs-to-Reefs Platforms

This is a study on the oil industries offshore equipment offers substratum base for coral to spawn and grow.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Sammarco, Paul W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Palo Pinto County, Inset B01

Inset map for Palo Pinto County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,005.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Palo Pinto County, Block 14

Parent map for Palo Pinto County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Integrated Reflection Seismic Monitoring and Reservoir Modeling for Geologic CO2 Sequestration (open access)

Integrated Reflection Seismic Monitoring and Reservoir Modeling for Geologic CO2 Sequestration

The US DOE/NETL CCS MVA program funded a project with Fusion Petroleum Technologies Inc. (now SIGMA) to model the proof of concept of using sparse seismic data in the monitoring of CO{sub 2} injected into saline aquifers. The goal of the project was to develop and demonstrate an active source reflection seismic imaging strategy based on deployment of spatially sparse surface seismic arrays. The primary objective was to test the feasibility of sparse seismic array systems to monitor the CO{sub 2} plume migration injected into deep saline aquifers. The USDOE/RMOTC Teapot Dome (Wyoming) 3D seismic and reservoir data targeting the Crow Mountain formation was used as a realistic proxy to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed methodology. Though the RMOTC field has been well studied, the Crow Mountain as a saline aquifer has not been studied previously as a CO{sub 2} sequestration (storage) candidate reservoir. A full reprocessing of the seismic data from field tapes that included prestack time migration (PSTM) followed by prestack depth migration (PSDM) was performed. A baseline reservoir model was generated from the new imaging results that characterized the faults and horizon surfaces of the Crow Mountain reservoir. The 3D interpretation was integrated with the petrophysical …
Date: December 31, 2011
Creator: Rogers, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maximal Proposition, Environmental Melodrama, and the Rhetoric of Local Movements: A Study of The Anti-Fracking Movement in Denton, Texas (open access)

Maximal Proposition, Environmental Melodrama, and the Rhetoric of Local Movements: A Study of The Anti-Fracking Movement in Denton, Texas

The environmental problems associated with the boom in hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," such as anthropogenic earthquakes and groundwater contamination, have motivated some citizens living in affected areas such as Denton, Texas to form movements with the goal of imposing greater regulation on the industry. As responses to an environmental threat that is localized and yet mobile, these anti-fracking movements must construct rhetorical appeals with complicated relationships to place. In this thesis, I examine the anti-fracking movement in Denton, Texas in a series of three rhetorical analyses. In the first, I compared fracking bans used by Frack Free Denton and State College, Pennsylvania to distinguish the argumentative claims that are dependent on the politics of place, and affect strategies localities must use in resisting natural gas extraction. In the second, I compare campaign strategies that use local identity as a way of invoking legitimacy, which reinforces narrative frameworks of environmental risk. In the third, I conduct and analyze interviews with anti-fracking leaders who described the narrative of their movement, which highlighted tensions in the rhetorical construction of a movement as local. Altogether, this thesis traces the rhetorical conception of place across the rhetoric of the anti-fracking movement in Denton, Texas, while …
Date: December 2017
Creator: Hensley, Colton Dwayne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Palo Pinto County, Index

Index map for Palo Pinto County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:92,115.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bakken-An Unconventional Petroleum and Reservoir System (open access)

The Bakken-An Unconventional Petroleum and Reservoir System

An integrated geologic and geophysical study of the Bakken Petroleum System, in the Williston basin of North Dakota and Montana indicates that: (1) dolomite is needed for good reservoir performance in the Middle Bakken; (2) regional and local fractures play a significant role in enhancing permeability and well production, and it is important to recognize both because local fractures will dominate in on-structure locations; and (3) the organic-rich Bakken shale serves as both a source and reservoir rock. The Middle Bakken Member of the Bakken Formation is the target for horizontal drilling. The mineralogy across all the Middle Bakken lithofacies is very similar and is dominated by dolomite, calcite, and quartz. This Member is comprised of six lithofacies: (A) muddy lime wackestone, (B) bioturbated, argillaceous, calcareous, very fine-grained siltstone/sandstone, (C) planar to symmetrically ripple to undulose laminated, shaly, very fine-grained siltstone/sandstone, (D) contorted to massive fine-grained sandstone, to low angle, planar cross-laminated sandstone with thin discontinuous shale laminations, (E) finely inter-laminated, bioturbated, dolomitic mudstone and dolomitic siltstone/sandstone to calcitic, whole fossil, dolomitic lime wackestone, and (F) bioturbated, shaly, dolomitic siltstone. Lithofacies B, C, D, and E can all be reservoirs, if quartz and dolomite-rich (facies D) or dolomitized (facies B, …
Date: December 31, 2011
Creator: Sarg, Frederick
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Parker County, Index

Index map for Parker County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:86,998.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of Arctic-related issues for Congress, and refers readers to more in-depth CRS reports on specific Arctic-related issues. Some general issues include Arctic territorial disputes; commercial shipping through the Arctic; Arctic oil, gas, and mineral exploration; endangered Arctic species; and increased military operations in the Arctic, which could cause the region in coming years to become an arena of international cooperation or competition.
Date: December 7, 2016
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Isotopic evidence for the infiltration of mantle and metamorphic CO2-H2O fluids from below in faulted rocks from the San Andreas Fault System (open access)

Isotopic evidence for the infiltration of mantle and metamorphic CO2-H2O fluids from below in faulted rocks from the San Andreas Fault System

To characterize the origin of the fluids involved in the San Andreas Fault (SAF) system, we carried out an isotope study of exhumed faulted rocks from deformation zones, vein fillings and their hosts and the fluid inclusions associated with these materials. Samples were collected from segments along the SAF system selected to provide a depth profile from upper to lower crust. In all, 75 samples from various structures and lithologies from 13 localities were analyzed for noble gas, carbon, and oxygen isotope compositions. Fluid inclusions exhibit helium isotope ratios ({sup 3}He/{sup 4}He) of 0.1-2.5 times the ratio in air, indicating that past fluids percolating through the SAF system contained mantle helium contributions of at least 35%, similar to what has been measured in present-day ground waters associated with the fault (Kennedy et al., 1997). Calcite is the predominant vein mineral and is a common accessory mineral in deformation zones. A systematic variation of C- and O-isotope compositions of carbonates from veins, deformation zones and their hosts suggests percolation by external fluids of similar compositions and origin with the amount of fluid infiltration increasing from host rocks to vein to deformation zones. The isotopic trend observed for carbonates in veins and …
Date: December 15, 2010
Creator: Pili, E.; Kennedy, B.M.; Conrad, M.E. & Gratier, J.-P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 161, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 8, 2010 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 161, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 8, 2010
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neptunium Transport Behavior in the Vicinity of Underground Nuclear Tests at the Nevada Test Site (open access)

Neptunium Transport Behavior in the Vicinity of Underground Nuclear Tests at the Nevada Test Site

We used short lived {sup 239}Np as a yield tracer and state of the art magnetic sector ICP-MS to measure ultra low levels of {sup 237}Np in a number of 'hot wells' at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), formerly known as the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The results indicate that {sup 237}Np concentrations at the Almendro, Cambric, Dalhart, Cheshire and Chancellor sites, are in the range of 3 x 10{sup -5} to 7 x 10{sup -2} pCi/L and well below the MCL for alpha emitting radionuclides (15 pCi/L) (EPA, 2009). Thus, while Np transport is believed to occur at the NNSS, activities are expected to be well below the regulatory limits for alpha-emitting radionuclides. We also compared {sup 237}Np concentration data to other radionuclides, including tritium, {sup 14}C, {sup 36}Cl, {sup 99}Tc, {sup 129}I, and plutonium, to evaluate the relative {sup 237}Np transport behavior. Based on isotope ratios relative to published unclassified Radiologic Source Terms (Bowen et al., 1999) and taking into consideration radionuclide distribution between melt glass, rubble and groundwater (IAEA, 1998), {sup 237}Np appears to be substantially less mobile than tritium and other non-sorbing radionuclides, as expected. However, this analysis also suggests that {sup 237}Np mobility is …
Date: December 3, 2010
Creator: Zhao, P.; Tinnacher, R. M.; Zavarin, M.; Williams, R. W. & Kersting, A. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library