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Geosciences, Volume 10, Issue 10

October 2020 - 40 articles

Cover Story: The active emission of gas (mainly methane) from terrestrial and subsea permafrost in the Russian Arctic has been confirmed by ample evidence. A generalization and some systematization of gas manifestations recorded in the Russian Arctic are carried out. All events of onshore and shelf gas release may be divided into natural and man-caused and the natural events can be further classified as venting from lakes or explosive emissions in dryland conditions that produce craters on the surface. Observed man-caused gas manifestations associated with the drilling of geotechnical and production wells in the Arctic region. The reported evidence demonstrates the effect of permafrost degradation on gas release. View this paper
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Articles (40)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,400 Views
19 Pages

Evidence of Predation on Early Pleistocene Freshwater Ostracods (Umbria, Central Italy)

  • Angela Baldanza,
  • Roberto Bizzarri,
  • Francesco Posati and
  • Manuel Ravoni

20 October 2020

Although drillholes in modern and ancient ostracods are known, the record is relatively scarce when compared to other taxa, and mainly exist with reference to the marine environment. Moreover, less is known about perforated ostracods, and more genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,750 Views
13 Pages

Magnetic Anomaly and Model of the Lonar Meteorite Impact Crater in Maharashtra, India

  • Kalle Kiik,
  • Jüri Plado,
  • Muddaramaiah Lingadevaru,
  • Syed Hamim Jeelani and
  • Mateusz Szyszka

20 October 2020

The ground magnetic field of the Lonar impact crater (Maharashtra State, India) and its surrounding area was measured and studied utilizing 2.5-dimensional potential field modelling. Field data showed the crater depression is associated with a strong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,315 Views
21 Pages

Characterizing Stalagmites’ Eigenfrequencies by Combining In Situ Vibration Measurements and Finite Element Modeling Based on 3D Scans

  • Aurélie Martin,
  • Thomas Lecocq,
  • Klaus-G. Hinzen,
  • Thierry Camelbeeck,
  • Yves Quinif and
  • Nathalie Fagel

20 October 2020

Broken or deformed speleothems have been used as indicators of paleo-earthquakes since the 1990s; however, a causal link is difficult to prove except for some thin speleothems. In contrast, the presence of intact speleothems permits estimating an upp...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,668 Views
3 Pages

Earth Tides and H2 Venting in the Sao Francisco Basin, Brazil

  • Jacob Simon,
  • Patrick Fulton,
  • Alain Prinzhofer and
  • Lawrence Cathles

19 October 2020

Hydrogen gas seeping from Proterozoic basins worldwide is a potential non-carbon energy resource, and the vents are consequently receiving research attention. A curious feature of H2 venting in the Sao Francisco Basin in Brazil is that the venting di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,292 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2020

Virginia is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States of America that offers spectacular sceneries and varied geologic history that covers about 1.5 billion years. A rock garden was developed at the Edith J. Carrier Ar...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,427 Views
30 Pages

15 October 2020

Foraminifers and ostracods were studied in a gravity-core recovered near Cape Adare (Ross Sea, Antarctica) with the aim of identifying the climatic and oceanographic variations during the last 30 ka. The sedimentary sequence represents conditions of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,224 Views
33 Pages

14 October 2020

The Pacific coast of the Shimokita Peninsula, Northeast Japan, is occupied by one of the larger dune complexes in Japan. This coastal aeolian dune complex developed during the Holocene in a monsoon-influenced temperate climatic belt. The stratigraphi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,587 Views
14 Pages

Sonar Estimation of Methane Bubble Flux from Thawing Subsea Permafrost: A Case Study from the Laptev Sea Shelf

  • Denis Chernykh,
  • Vladimir Yusupov,
  • Aleksandr Salomatin,
  • Denis Kosmach,
  • Natalia Shakhova,
  • Elena Gershelis,
  • Anton Konstantinov,
  • Andrey Grinko,
  • Evgeny Chuvilin and
  • Oleg Dudarev
  • + 2 authors

14 October 2020

Seeps found offshore in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf may mark zones of degrading subsea permafrost and related destabilization of gas hydrates. Sonar surveys provide an effective tool for mapping seabed methane fluxes and monitoring subsea Arctic p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,415 Views
21 Pages

Methane Content and Emission in the Permafrost Landscapes of Western Yamal, Russian Arctic

  • Gleb E. Oblogov,
  • Alexander A. Vasiliev,
  • Irina D. Streletskaya,
  • Natalia A. Zadorozhnaya,
  • Anna O. Kuznetsova,
  • Mikhail Z. Kanevskiy and
  • Petr B. Semenov

14 October 2020

We present the results of studies of the methane content in soils of the active layer and underlying permafrost, as well as data on the emission of methane into the atmosphere in the dominant landscapes of typical tundra of the western coast of the Y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,392 Views
26 Pages

Field Measurements of Soil Water Content at Shallow Depths for Landslide Monitoring

  • Rossella Bovolenta,
  • Alessandro Iacopino,
  • Roberto Passalacqua and
  • Bianca Federici

13 October 2020

Monitoring changes in soil saturation is important for slope stability analyses. Soil moisture capacitive sensors have recently been developed; their response time is extremely fast, they require little maintenance, and they are relatively inexpensiv...

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