Figure 1, in the Hyal-like enzymes column, illustrates the evolution of the Hyal-like sequences: From one in C. elegans, to three in the sea squirt, to six such sequences in the zebra fish.
Data on the relation between intergranular volume and burial depth indicate that the observed intergranular volume reduction in the upper ~ 800 m of the sediment column corresponds to the evolution of RLP to RCP, and is thus fully explained by non-destructive grain rearrangement.
Also, four other columns are cured for 7, 28, 90 and 150 days and then small samples are taken out from the columns to investigate the evolution of unconfined compressive strength (UCS), shear strength parameters, microstructural properties, and pore fluid chemistry.
The justification for this conversion was our clustering procedure done on frequency distributions and the random simulation of the column evolution.
Assuming that the water depth and flow velocity are constant in space and time and that the water column is well mixed, the evolution in concentration, Cs, within the flooding tidal water can be expressed as: C s = C s 0 exp − w s / h t = C s 0 exp − w s x / Uh (5).
Tomographic measurements have been carried out in a large number of packing cross sections situated at different heights between the top and the bottom of the packed column, giving access to the evolution of axial profiles of liquid hold up and of gas liquid interfacial area as a function of the operating conditions.
These histograms run pretty close one against each other proving that our random procedure can essentially reproduce the column evolution that exists in nature.
Each generated sequence was considered to be an ancestral sequence, and the process of column evolution in each column of the generated sequence was modeled by random generation of 32 amino acid residues to obtain the same depth of the generated multiple alignment as the average depth of multiple alignments in our clustering procedure done on BLOCKS.
In situations where natural water quality differences occur such as flowing boreholes or injection experiments, the simple mass-balance code can be used to quantitatively model the evolution of fluid column logs.
