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WEDNESDAY, JULY ID, i»/d RIDE OH! Sales Center For: PEUGEOT RAL£i<ZW FOLLIS r fiff WE SERVICE ALL MAKES OF BICYCLES Bicycle parts & accessories CENTRAL CYCLE & SUPPLY 3505 E. 29th St. — 822-2228 Take East University to 29th St. (Tarrow Street) Overpressurized rocks threaten offshore drilling MSC Cafeteria SWEET SHOP now featuring Beautiful, Taste Tempting CAKES Made to Order and Decorated to Suit Your Individual Needs for BIRTHDAYS WEDDINGS And Other Special Occasions Choose a delicious pie or cake from our attractive display or place an order for your next special occasion or call 845-1118 QUALITY FIRST” Overpressurized rocks threaten every offshore drilling rig in Texas. Dr. William R. Bryant, a marine geologist, and Dr. L. J. Thompson, a civil engineer, have been given $50,000 by the U. S. Geological Survey to find a solution. “Overpressurized sediments occur when the material being de posited on the ocean floor starts to consolidate and traps pockets of water, ”, Thompson said. “As more sand and sediment is deposited the pressure on the entrapped water in creases. “Now when you drill into one of these high pressure zones it tries to blow the mud, drill stem, and ev erything else out the top of the oil rig, ” said. “These over pressures are common to oil companies at great depths. “For example, from New Orleans to Corpus Christi, there are many such pockets at the 10,000 to 12,000 foot level,” Thompson said. “Re cently, there was a blowout as shal low as 3,000 feet. “Not only that but overpressured sediments are unstable and subject to slides, he said. “An understand ing of this phenomenon needs to be developed if the overpressured zones that constitute a hazard to $25,000 for alcohol study granted The Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare has awarded more than $25,000 to TAMU to study the effect of alcohol on the brain. Dr. W. R. Klemm, project head, has made some interesting observa tions on drug rats. He found he could make them mentally alert while intoxicated. By injecting a drug, physostig- mine, into drunken rats, the cortical brain waves appear as those of ex tremely alert rats. Meanwhile, they physically bump into objects, fall off the edge of the table, and topple over. Klemm hinted that this might be a first step on the way to developing an instant “sober-up” drug. “This work reveals that ethanol caused motor problems more or less independently of cortical influ ence,” Klemm said. The cortex of the brain is where thinking proces ses occur. “To extrapolate this to normal drinking in the human is not clearly justified,” he said. “However, such a relation would indicate that there is a brief phase of the intoxicated state when thinking is active. “The fact that physical intoxica tion persists when a major part of the brain is protected by the drug against alcohol, indicates that al cohol acts on chemical processes in the brain in ways which have yet to be discovered,” he said. offshore structures are to be lo cated. “As a result, we’ve laid out a four-year program to attack this problem,” Thompson said. “The first year a theory needs to be de veloped that will predict excess pore pressures for the steady state process. We’ve got to be able to predict where they will occur. “The second year’s task will be to develop equipment, like a probe, that will allow us to locate the high pressure zones,” he said. “Also this technique might have possibilities as a mapping tool for shallow sedi ments. The probe will use the rela tionship between excess pore pres- sure with temperature, electrical resistivity, sonic velocity and poros- ity. “The third year will be spent con structing the probe and the de monstration of its use through map ping continental shelf areas where excess pore pressure might exist,” Thompson said. “And, the final year will be spent locating and mapping the zones of high excess pore pres sure. ” The rest of the project staff con sists of graduate students Phillip and Robert Chen. Dave Powley, from AMOCO Oil Company, will serve as an unpaid consultant on the project. He has examined over 4,000 well-records studying the deep problem. 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