Project Number | 18 |
Date of Summary | September 30, 1983 |
Subject | Overpressured Marine Sediments |
Performing Activity | Texas A&M Research Foundation |
Principal Investigator | Dr. L. Thompson |
Contracting Agency | Minerals Management Service |
Estimated Completion | Complete |
Description | To study the formation of overpressured marine sediments to predict their occurrence during drilling operations. |
Progress | Complete. A consolidation theory was developed which applied to the progressive burial of ocean bottom sediment, describing porosity as a function of depth and time of various rates of deposition. Laboratory experiments conducted by the principal investigator confirm the theoretical formulations which challenge Terzaghi's time honored effective stress principle. Thompson contends that pore water pressures in marine sediments can substantially exceed geo static pressures. A review panel of Thompson's peers (see below report of Schiffman and 11 others) have stated that the evidence is not convincing but that the implications of his theory, if correct, have far reaching practical importance. The project was concluded and referred to the National Science Foundation. |
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Thompson, L. J., Chen, R. M., Bryant, W. R., Overpressured Marine Sediments, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, January 1977. |
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Thompson, L. J., Overpressured Marine Sediments; The Thermomechanics of Progressive Burial, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, July 1979. |
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Thompson, L. J., Soil and Rock Contact Areas Revisited, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 1980. (Unpublished) |
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Lee, H. T., Compressibility and Permeability of Clays at High Pressure, Masters Degree Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 1980. |
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Callanan, M. J., The Prediction of Hydrofracture Pressure and K, During Drilling, Masters Degree Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 1980. |
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Schiffman, R. L., and 11 others, Report on Research Being Conducted by Dr. Louis Thompson on Overpressured Marine Sediments, March 10, 1981. |
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Thompson, L. J., Callanan, M. J., Overpressured Marine Sediments, Volume I: The Prediction of Hydrofracture and K, During Drilling, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Mary 5, 1981. |
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Miller, J. W., The Thermal Conductivity of Sediments as a Function of Porosity, A Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 1979. |
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Huang, C. S., Childs, S. B., and Thompson, L. J., Computer Analysis of the Consolidation of Ocean Bottom Sediments (draft), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 1982. |
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Morita, Nobuo. Gray, K. E. Effective Stress Concepts, Definitions, and Restriction. Center for Earth Science and Engineering University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas. |
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Morita, Nobuo. Gray, K. E. A Constructive Equation for Nonlinear Stress-Strain Curves in Rocks and Its Application To Stress Analysis Around a Borehole During Drilling SPE 9328. |
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Scgiffman, Robert L. Effective Stress Concept Texas A&M University Civil Engineering Department April 13, 1981. |
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