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Braunschweig, Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2001. / Dateiformat: tgz, Dateien im PDF-Format. - Enth.: Hauptbd. Anlagenbd.

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Master of Science / Department of Geology / Matt Totten / The Mississippian-aged St. Louis Limestone has been a major producer of oil, and natural gas for years in Kearny County, Kansas. Since 1966 two major fields in the County, the Lakin, and Lakin South fields, have produced over 4,405,800 bbls of oil. The St. Louis can be subdivided into six different depositional facies, all with varying lithologies and porosities. Only one of these facies is productive, and the challenge of exploration in this area is the prediction of the productive facies distribution. A previous study by Martin (2015) used a neural network model using well log data, calibrated with established facies distributed within a cored well, to predict the presence of these facies in adjacent wells without core. It was assumed that the model’s prediction accuracy would be strongest near the cored wells, with increasing inaccuracy as you move further from the cored wells used for the neural network model. The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy of the neural network model predictions. Additionally, is the greater accuracy closest to the cored wells used to calibrate the model, with a corresponding decrease in predictive accuracy as you move further away? Most importantly, how well did the model predict the primary producing unit (porous ooid grainstone) within the St. Louis Limestone? The results showed that the neural network was not completely reliable in predicting total facies distribution. This can be attributed to many different inefficiencies in the data, including different resolutions between cuttings data and well logs, limited well cuttings available, and missing cuttings from the wells that were observed. Relating the neural network predictions to actual well productivity validates the neural network’s ability to predict the producing facies. There are also instances of the productive facies being present when not predicted. This is likely a function of different facies thickness in these wells from the cored wells used to calibrate the model, rather than distance from the cored well.

Although there is a vast body of secondary literature on Mark 4:11-12, the interpretation of this passage has been dominated by source, form, and redaction critical methods which have tended to limit, or even discount, the importance of these verses in the Gospel. This study, in contrast, uses reader response criticism. Graeco-Roman rhetoric, and sociological approaches as aids to understanding the literary and social functions of Mark 4:11-12. Since the methods used in this study are still fairly novel in New Testament research, the first two chapters provide a detailed introduction to interpreting Mark from the perspectives of reader response, ancient literary theory (Chapter 1), and social setting (Chapter 2). The main questions posed in these chapters are: 'how would Mark have been evaluated literarily by a Graeco-Roman reader?'; and 'what was the Gospel used for in its original setting?' After a survey of the literature on Mark 4:11-12 (Chapter 3), material in Mark which seems to echo these verses verbally or thematically is reviewed in detail (Chapter 4), and the passage is studied in its immediate context, the parable chapter (Mark 4:1-34) (Chapter 5). Two final chapters summarize the findings of the study from literary and sociological perspectives. Mark 4:11-12, it is concluded, is not, as several important interpreters (E. Schweizer, T.H. Weeden, H. Raisanen) have asserted, a 'foreign element' to be ascribed to pre-Marcan tradition, but integral to the Gospel as a literary whole, and to the function of the book in its original setting. Mark 4:11-12, part of Mark's secrecy motif, focuses the reader's attention on certain aspects of the Gospel's eschatological teaching (parables, miracle stories, confession scenes, apocalyptic discourse), and served the needs of early Christian missionaries anxiously awaiting the parousia of the son of man and the establishment of the kingdom of God.

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This is a study of the presence and function of Scripture within the first two chapters of Paul's letter to the Galatians. The study takes a broad, comprehensive look at the intertextual relationships that exist between Paul's presuppositions, statements and arguments and the Scriptures of Israel. These relationships go beyond the use of citations and allusions (which are not conspicuous in these chapters) and include implicit and intuitive uses which are recognized and which function in ways quite distinct from more formal and explicit uses of Scripture. These more subtle and implicit uses of Scripture are detected by reading Paul's discourse in the light of the Old Testament Scriptures which were read in his churches and of those Jewish interpretative traditions of the period that may have informed his (and his churches') understanding of those Scriptures. The concern of this study goes beyond the detection of scriptural presence to the investigation of the function of that scriptural material within the framework of the discourse in which it is found. To this end the investigation has been conducted on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the semantic and rhetorical structure of the letter as a whole and of the various units out of which it is constructed. The study concludes: that Paul describes the situation facing the Galatians as one of impending apostasy, in distinctly Jewish terms; that the function of Scripture within these two chapters tends to mirror the rhetorical function of the chapters themselves; that Paul uses Scripture as a tool for redescribing people, situations and things around him; and that there is an apocalyptic-restorationist theological orientation that guides him in his reading and use of Scripture.

Part of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1930. / Lithographed. "Private edition, distributed by the University of Chicago libraries."

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