...Dave Keighley Abstract The Albert Formation (Horton Group) of the Moncton Basin, New Brunswick, is host to the only onshore petroleum system in the Maritime Provinces from which oil and natural gas are commercially produced. Production from the McCully gas field is from tight reservoir sandstone...

.... Hydrocarbon exploration is presently concentrated in the McCully and Hillsborough areas (Figs. 2 , 3 and 4 ). In the Hillsborough area, small quantities of oil have been produced from two wells near Edgetts Landing. The McCully gas field, near the town of Sussex, was discovered in 2000. Production from two...

...Figure 2. The simplified geological map of the Moncton sub‐basin in southern New Brunswick. The map illustrates the complex relationships between the Devonian–Permian succession and the pre‐Devonian crystalline basement uplifts. The Stoney Creek (oil) and McCully (gas) fields are shown...

... = 28.317 dm 3 ) of sweet gas were produced from the Stoney Creek field before production ceased in 1991 ( St. Peter 2001 ). More recently, interest has been renewed in the area as a result of the Maritimes and Northeast gas pipeline. In the study area, the McCully gas field was discovered in 2000 (Fig.  1...

... Australian soils . J. Soil Sci. 39 : 99 – 110 . doi:10.1111/j.1365-2389.1988.tb01198.x McCully M.E. Boyer J.S. . 1997 . The expansion of maize root-cap mucilage during hydration: 3. Changes in water potential and water content . Physiol. Plant. 99 : 169 – 177 . doi:10.1111/j.1399...

... opportunity to unify research advances from fields that operate as independent disciplines (e.g., results obtained using novel observation techniques such as nondestructive and cryoscanning imaging of roots under field conditions [ Pierret et al., 2003 ; McCully, 1999 ], microsensors [ Portefield, 2002...

...Fig. 21. Geological cross-sections of the onshore Mississippian Stoney Creek oil field (A–A′) and McCully gas field (B–B′) in the Moncton Sub-basin in New Brunswick (field locations in Fig. 18 ; modified from Fyffe and St. Peter, 2006 ). ...

..., and vegetation is well known to exert a major influence on catchment hydrology. The potential use of vegetation to manage hydrologic processes at field scale is considered briefly as a way of influencing water outflow rates and engineering soils for particular purposes. * Corresponding author...

... ( Nishiyama, 2005 ; Carminati et al., 2010 ; Moradi et al., 2011 ). The hypothesis on the role of mucilage was confirmed by the experiments of McCully and Boyer (1997) , who measured the water content of mucilage at varying water potentials. They found that fully hydrated mucilage can contain water up...

... traps in sandstone of the same stratigraphic unit. The nearby, historically producing Stoney Creek oil and gas field is part of this petroleum play, as is the more recently exploited McCully gas field further west near Sussex, New Brunswick ( Hinds and St. Peter, 2006 ; Fig. 1 ). However, in the area...

... mechanical and hydraulic stresses that are expected to alter the density and structure of the rhizosphere. Mucilage exuded by the roots, with its high water holding capacity ( McCully and Boyer, 1997 ), may increase the water holding capacity of the rhizosphere. On the other hand, lipids present...

... l’étude des xénolites péridotitiques de la région du lac Tana : Paris, Académie des Sciences Compte Rendus, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes , v. v. 324 pp. 1009 ߝ 1016 . Schilling , J.G. , Kinsley , R.H. , Hanan , B.B. , and McCully , B.L. , 1992 , Nd-Sr-Pb isotopic...

... were gas wells and 32 per cent were dry holes. Drilling operations in the older proved fields were largely routine with the greatest number of completions reported from the general Seminole-St. Louis area. Drilling at Oklahoma City was limited largely to the Dolomite zone at the north end...

...- offset Romanche transform combined with a regional mantle thermal minimum; however, modeling allows a limited extent of hydrous melting. This unusual lithosphere, unable to expel the melt fraction, characterizes cold spots along mid-ocean ridges. Field work on cruises S-16 and S-19 was part...

... primitive domains of Pl and Cpx (high anorthite and high Mg# plus low TiO 2 /Cr 2 O 3 content, respectively) were selected for in situ microanalysis after polished blocks were element mapped on a Zeiss Sigma HD field emission gun scanning electron microscope (SEM) at Cardiff University, UK. Neodymium...

... was initiated ∼30 Ma ago by far-field stresses on plate boundaries generated by the Africa-Eurasia collision [ 10 ]. East African rift system Cenozoic volcanic rocks 40 Ar/ 39 Ar K-Ar Rb-Sr geochronology The present-day knowledge of Cenozoic magmatism and rifting in Africa is due mostly...