Climatic and halokinetic controls on alluvial–lacustrine sedimentation during compressional deformation, Andean forearc, northern Chile

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The Impact of Carbonate Texture on the Quantification of Total Porosity by Image Analysis

Date of Acceptance: 31/08/2015 The authors would like to thank Total E&P and BG Group for project funding and support and the Industry Technology Facilitator for enabling the collaborative development (grant number 3322PSD). The authors would also like to thank Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society and the College of Physical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen for partial financial support. Dougal Jerram, Raymi Castilla, Claude Gout, Frances Abbots and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their constructive comments and suggestions to improve the standard of this manuscript. The authors would also like to express their gratitude toJohn Still and Colin Taylor for technical assistance in the laboratory and Nick Timms (Curtin University) and Angela Halfpenny (CSIRO) for their assistance with the full thin section scanning equipment.

The Impact of Carbonate Texture on the Quantification of Total Porosity by Image Analysis

Date of Acceptance: 31/08/2015 The authors would like to thank Total E&P and BG Group for project funding and support and the Industry Technology Facilitator for enabling the collaborative development (grant number 3322PSD). The authors would also like to thank Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society and the College of Physical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen for partial financial support. Dougal Jerram, Raymi Castilla, Claude Gout, Frances Abbots and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their constructive comments and suggestions to improve the standard of this manuscript. The authors would also like to express their gratitude toJohn Still and Colin Taylor for technical assistance in the laboratory and Nick Timms (Curtin University) and Angela Halfpenny (CSIRO) for their assistance with the full thin section scanning equipment.

Permeability evolution across carbonate hosted normal fault zones

Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank Total E&P and BG Group for project funding and support, and the Industry Technology Facilitator for facilitating the collaborative development (grant number 3322PSD). The authors would also like to express their gratitude to the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society and the College of Physical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen for partial financial support. Raymi Castilla (Total E&P), Fabrizio Agosta and Cathy Hollis are also thanked for their constructive comments and suggestions to improve the standard of this manuscript as are John Still and Colin Taylor (University of Aberdeen) for technical assistance in the laboratory. Piero Gianolla is thanked for his editorial handling of the manuscript.

Primary aragonite and high-Mg calcite in the late Cambrian (Furongian) : Potential evidence from marine carbonates in Oman

Acknowledgements Fieldwork and sampling was funded by Petroleum Development Oman during S. Al Marjibis’s Ph.D. Their help is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank colleagues at the University of Aberdeen, Julie Dougans (SUERC) for assisting with stable isotope analysis and Dr. Richard Hinton (EIMF) for assistance with ion microprobe analysis. Profs. Kiessling, Tucker, Bosence, Coleman, Dr. Dickson and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their helpful and encouraging comments.