Geosciences  

Evgeny Abakumov, Rustam Tembotov, Vyacheslav Polyakov, Mikhail Ivanov, Bulat Mavlyudov, Ivan Kushnov, Timur Nizamutdinov, Rositsa Yaneva and Miglena Zhiyanski

The surface of mountain glaciers is a place of accumulation of various biogenic organomineral and mineral compounds. As a result of intensive mass deglaciation of glaciers due to climate change and anthropogenic activity, this material can significantly a... see more

Pedro Ojeda, Davide Elmo, Steve Rogers and Andres Brzovic

Volumetric fracture intensity (P32) is a parameter that plays a major role in the mechanical and hydraulic behaviour of rock masses. While methods such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) are available to map the 3D geometrical characteristics of the fractu... see more

Evgeny Abakumov, Timur Nizamutdinov, Alla Lapidus, Georgy Istigechev and Sergey Loiko

The Chernevaya taiga is a unique ecosystem formed under the influence of a complex of geogenic and bioclimatic factors located in the foothill border of the southeastern part of Western Siberia. The combination of local climatic conditions and the composi... see more

Avirut Puttiwongrak, Solina Keo, Sakanann Vann, Tanwa Arpornthip, Thongchai Suteerasak and Piti Sukontasukkul

Understanding the technical properties of the subsurface soil is essential for carrying out any building project correctly. In sandy soils in Phuket, Thailand, a correlation between electrical resistivity and the SPT N-value should be established in desig... see more

Gezahegn Weldu Woldemariam, Kalid Hassen Yasin and Anteneh Derribew Iguala

Water erosion is accelerating soil loss rates in the East Hararghe Zone due to inappropriate human activities and their complex and intertwined interactions with natural factors, particularly in sensitive agroecosystems that lack soil and water conservati... see more

Theofani Psomouli, Ioannis Kansizoglou and Antonios Gasteratos

The increase in the concentration of geological gas emissions in the atmosphere and particularly the increase of methane is considered by the majority of the scientific community as the main cause of global climate change. The main reasons that place meth... see more

Luuk Dorren, Christoph Schaller, Alexandra Erbach and Christine Moos

The aim of this study was to delimit potential rockfall propagation zones based on simulated 2 m resolution rockfall trajectories using Rockyfor3D for block volume scenarios ranging from 0.05–30 m3, with explicit inclusion of the barrier effect of standin... see more

Brandon Keough and Kenneth Ridgway

The Cantwell Formation of the central Alaska Range provides a robust archive of high-latitude, Late Cretaceous depositional systems and paleo-floral/faunal assemblages. Our stratigraphic analysis defines two mappable members. The lower member (1500–2000 m... see more

Hassan Al-Budairi, Zhiwei Gao and Andrew Steel

Low-energy rockfall catch fences are designed to protect infrastructure such as railways and roads wherein the kinetic energy of falling rocks is less than 100 kJ. The typical design consists of a double-twisted steel wire mesh supported by ground posts a... see more

Haïfa Ben-Romdhane, Diana Francis, Charfeddine Cherif, Kosmas Pavlopoulos, Hosni Ghedira and Steven Griffiths

In this paper, the feasibility of satellite remote sensing in detecting and predicting locations of buried objects in the archaeological site of Saruq Al-Hadid, United Arab Emirates (UAE) was investigated. Satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is... see more

Ivo Baselt, Adis Skejic, Budo Zindovic and Jens Bender

Landmines and explosive remnants of war are still present in the Western Balkans and remain a deadly legacy of the hostilities at the end of the 20th century. Over the years, several incidents have occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Serbia, and in Cro... see more

Masashi Hayakawa, Yuriy P. Galuk and Alexander P. Nickolaenko

This paper addresses the accuracy of estimates for the contemporary level of global thunderstorm activity found from the synchronous records of integrated Schumann resonance (SR) intensity at two high-latitude observatories in the Northern and Southern he... see more

Carl Job, Carlos G. Ochoa, W. Todd Jarvis and Robert E. Kennedy

In the Willcox Groundwater Basin (WGB), increasing rates of agricultural groundwater withdrawal have led to significant regional groundwater level decline, threatening the basin’s long-term water resource security. Updated characterization of the basin’s ... see more

Sabrina Nazzareni, Simona Alunno, Federica Zaccarini, Michele Mattioli, Alessandro Murroni, Alessandro Di Michele and Alberto Renzulli

The Murcielago gold placer is located in the Lepaguare Valley, Olancho Department (Central Honduras). The placer mineralogy includes silicates (quartz, garnets, amphibole, Ca-pyroxene, micas, epidote, and tourmaline); calcite; and in the heavy fraction, z... see more

Daniela Giretti and Vincenzo Fioravante

This paper reports the results of dynamic centrifuge tests carried out on sandy models alternatively equipped with vertical or horizontal drains. The main aim of the experimentation was to investigate the use of horizontal drains to mitigate the liquefact... see more

Stefan Marz, Anja Schlicht and Urs Hugentobler

Today, concepts within the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) aim a Terrestrial Reference System (TRS) with 1 mm accuracy and long-term stability of 0.1 mm/year. GETRIS (Geodesy and Time Reference In Space) is a concept that aims to realize a relativ... see more

Nicholas R. MacDonald, Timothy R. M. Packulak and Jennifer J. Day

Direct shear (DS) is a common geotechnical laboratory test used to determine strength and deformation properties of rock discontinuities, such as normal and shear stiffness, peak and residual shear strength, and dilation. These are used as inputs for disc... see more

Leopold I. Lobkovsky, Alexey A. Baranov, Igor A. Garagash, Mukamay M. Ramazanov, Irina S. Vladimirova, Yurii V. Gabsatarov, Dmitry A. Alekseev and Igor P. Semiletov

A correlation is observed between changes in the level of Earth’s seismic activity and increments of the atmospheric methane concentration over the past 40 years. Trigger mechanisms are proposed for methane emissions and glacier collapse in polar regions.... see more

Mohamed Ismail Moustafa

One of the most extensively studied topics in dozens of studies is the alteration process of ilmenite, the formation of leucoxene, and the presence of some impurity oxides: SiO2 and Al2O3. The altered Egyptian black sand ilmenite grains of relatively lowe... see more

Patricio Venegas-Aravena and Enrique G. Cordaro

Field measurements in subduction regions have revealed the presence of non-seismic pre-earthquake signals such as electromagnetic or acoustic emission, gas liberation, changes in Earth’s surface temperature, changes at the ionospheric level, or fluid migr... see more

Andrés Cardenas, Maria I. Dias, Catarina Diamantino, Edgar Carvalho, Dulce Russo and Rosa Marques

New insights about the geochemical behavior of actinides and lanthanides in an old uranium mine are provided for the first time in this work. Fifteen samples (water, soil, and sediments) were collected inside and outside the Quinta do Bispo old mine (Port... see more

Marina Leibman, Nina Nesterova and Maxim Altukhov

The Arctic zone of West Siberia (Yamal and Gydan peninsulas) is an area with continuous permafrost and tabular ground ice close to the surface, active thermodenudation, and related landforms: retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS); in Russian referred to as ther... see more

Katherine Carol Swager, Suzanne Michelle Bourret, Gilles Y. Bussod, Noa Balaban, Hakim Boukhalfa, Ran Calvo, Ofra Klein-BenDavid, Dolan Lucero, Itay J. Reznik, Ravid Rosenzweig and Philip H. Stauffer

A scientific collaboration between the U.S. and Israel is underway to assess the suitability of a potential site for subsurface radioactive waste disposal in the Negev Desert, Israel. The Negev Desert has several favorable attributes for geologic disposal... see more

Antonio Pasculli, Nicola Sciarra and Massimo Mangifesta

The values of the physical–mechanical properties of any soil are affected by uncertainties both due to experimental measurements and the impossibility of knowing them, in detail, at every point of the spatial domain. Accordingly, this work focuses on unce... see more

Stefano Furlani, Fabrizio Antonioli, Emanuele Colica, Sebastiano D’Amico, Stefano Devoto, Pietro Grego and Timmy Gambin

Sea caves are a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea. The coastal scenery of the Gozitan coast is very interesting in that sea caves and other coastal landforms, such as sea arches, develop at the sea level. We mapped seventy-nine s... see more

Roberto Bizzarri and Angela Baldanza

Pliocene (?)—early Pleistocene shallow marine deposits, varying from gravel to sand to clay, characterize the southernmost sector of the Valdichiana Basin, between Orte and Città della Pieve, across Tuscany, Umbria and Latium (Central Italy). Facies assoc... see more

Cristian Acuña, Juan Betancur, Jair Arrieta Baldovino, Guilliam Barboza and Manuel Saba

This study assessed the dispersivity of soils extracted from the northern region of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) using the pinhole test, crumb test, and chemical–microstructural analyses. Dispersive soils are susceptible to erosive phenomena upon contac... see more

Alexander Safonov and Kirill Minchenkov

Honeycomb weathering is a common phenomenon found on various rock surfaces all around the world. However, honeycomb formation mechanisms are still poorly understood. In this study, we propose a model describing moisture transport within the sandstone and ... see more

Manuel Vargas-Yáñez, Elena Tel, Marta Marcos, Francina Moya, Enrique Ballesteros, Cristina Alonso and M. Carmen García-Martínez

We present an attempt to estimate the long-term changes in Relative Sea Level (RSL), in addition to the different factors contributing to such trends on a local and regional scale, using a statistical linear model. The time series analysis corresponded to... see more

Georgios Makrodimitras, Anastasios Nikitas, Dimitrios Ktenas, Angelos G. Maravelis, Niki Marina Rokana, Nikolaos Pasadakis, Efthimios Tartaras and Aristofanis Stefatos

The Epanomi gas field discovery during the 1980s at the eastern fringe of the Thermaikos Basin in Northern Greece proved the existence of an active petroleum system in the area. Seismic and drilling exploration programs in the area provide data to study t... see more

Jiao Guo, Jiansheng Shi, Hongyun Chen, Chao Song, Qiuyao Dong and Wei Wang

Paleoclimate studies of loess in China have focused mostly on the time series of a single borehole or profile. However, research on loess strata and regional paleoenvironmental patterns could facilitate a deeper understanding of loess as a paleoenvironmen... see more

Elena Marrocchino, Maria Grazia Paletta, Lorenzo Ferroni, Rino Manfrini and Chiara Telloli

Geoscience disciplines play a pivotal role in the assessment of the conservation state of Cultural Heritage to orient the subsequent restoration interventions. In this report, we exemplify the potential of petrographic and thermographic analyses for the e... see more

Olga Mavrouli, Athanasia D. Skentou, Josep Maria Carbonell, Markos Z. Tsoukalas, M. Amparo Núñez-Andrés and Panagiotis G. Asteris

Although the principal aim of the rockfall management is to prevent rock boulders from reaching the buildings instead of the buildings resisting the boulder impacts, there usually exists a residual risk that has to be assessed, even when structural protec... see more

Sergio Leyva, Noelia Cruz-Pérez, Jesica Rodríguez-Martín and Juan C. Santamarta

Due to their genesis, volcanic rocks present some singularities that make their geotechnical characteristics significantly different from other more common types of massifs, such as sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The formation mechanisms of volcanic r... see more

Federico Mantovani, Franco Marco Elter, Enrico Pandeli, Antonino Briguglio and Michele Piazza

The Portofino Conglomerate (PC) cropping out in the Eastern Liguria is an approximately 500 m thick, very gently folded succession mainly composed of poorly bedded and mostly matrix-supported conglomerates. It stratigraphically rests on the Helminthoid Fl... see more

Elena V. Novikova, Mariia A. Trimonova, Sergey B. Turuntaev, Evgeny V. Zenchenko and Petr E. Zenchenko

This work presents an analysis of data obtained through unique laboratory experiments on hydraulic fracturing. In the experiments, sufficiently large artificial samples were used to model a reservoir. Thus, it was possible to simulate several wells simult... see more