This study presents a 3D seismic velocity model of the crust beneath northwestern Iran. The data include arrival times of 76,589 P-waves and 10,796 S-waves from 7245 events recorded by 233 stations. The seismic velocity model presented in this research provides a detailed understanding of the crustal structure and tectonic processes shaping northwestern Iran. The interplay between volcanism, fa…
In this study, we present an artificial neural network (ANN)-based approach for travel-time tomography of a volcanic edifice under sparse-ray coverage. We employ ray tracing to simulate the propagation of seismic waves through the heterogeneous medium of a volcanic edifice, and an inverse modeling algorithm that uses an ANN to estimate the velocity structure from the “observed” travel-time …
Rock cuttings from destructive boreholes are a common and cheaper source of drilling materials that can be used to determine underground geology compared to rock core samples. Classifying manually the series of cuttings can be a long and tedious process and can also be prone to subjectivity leading to errors. In this paper, a framework for the classification of multiple types of rock structures…
Utilization of subsurface resources is essential to achieve energy sustainability including large-scale CO sequestration, H storage, geothermal energy extraction, and hydrocarbon recovery. In-situ visualization of fluid flow in geological media is essential to understand complex, coupled, physical and chemical processes underlying fluid injection, storage, extraction. X-ray Computed Tomogra…