Emmanuel Etim Okon

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What is the most suitable approach for determining the presence of iron ore deposit in the subsurface ?

Conventional geophysics have been deployed and observed to be the methods of choice (magnetics and electrical sounding). Is it possible to distinguish the different types of iron ores from the...

09 February 2022 9,335 6 View

What is the main process of formation of secondary iron ore deposit?

Iron ore known to form from secondary oxide enrichment in the near surface may not be defined by fracture patterns in the host rock; the water table and climatic conditions, redox potential of...

09 February 2022 4,574 4 View

How has the mysteries (surrrounding the initial death rates) of corona virus shed light on other possibilities of the K-T boundary extinctions?

Could there have been some subtle underlying, seemingly unidentifiable cause of death that combined with the closely related catastrophes (eg asteroid impact hypothesis and/or disruption in animal...

02 August 2020 3,982 5 View

How do one effectively carryout an outcrop-sequence stratigraphic study of an area that has no association with open marine setting?

Basically most studies try to relate the rise and fall in sea level to the various stacking patterns/building blocks of the depositional sequence. For instance, in a typical fluvial system, or...

28 December 2018 256 4 View

Radiometric analysis (geochronology) of heavy mineral concentrates - Heavy Mineral Analysis Studies

I am considering the suitability of geochonological studies of heavy mineral concentrates from a sedimentary formation that is devoid of fossils and fall within a "magnetic reversal-quiet zone"....

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