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Geosciences, Volume 10, Issue 7

July 2020 - 30 articles

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Cover Story: On 22 March 2020, Zagreb was struck by an M5.5 earthquake that had been expected for more than 100 years and revealed all the failures in the construction of residential buildings in the Croatian capital. The first-order assessment of seismic amplification in the Zagreb area shows that ground motions were amplified at least twice. The observed co-seismic deformation implies an approximately 3 cm uplift of the epicentral area. Based on the preliminary analyses of the earthquake sequence, the mainshock and the first aftershocks occurred in the subsurface of the Medvednica Mountains along a deep-seated southeast-dipping thrust fault. View this paper

Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,488 Views
11 Pages

Ground-Penetrating Radar Study of Progradational Units in Holocene Coastal Plains: Carchuna Beach (SE Spain)

  • Javier Rey,
  • Julián Martínez,
  • Mᵃ Carmen Hidalgo,
  • Rosendo Mendoza and
  • Mᵃ José Campos

The internal geometries of progradational units on the coastal plain in southeastern Spain (Carchuna Beach, Granada) since the maximum Holocene marine transgression (ca. 7000 cal BP) have been analysed using ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Radargram...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,312 Views
27 Pages

We compare two ensemble Kalman-based methods to estimate the hydraulic conductivity field of an aquifer from data of hydraulic and tracer tomographic experiments: (i) the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) and (ii) the Kalman Ensemble Generator (KEG). We...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,109 Views
17 Pages

Seabed Mapping: A Brief History from Meaningful Words

  • Pedro Smith Menandro and
  • Alex Cardoso Bastos

Over the last few centuries, mapping the ocean seabed has been a major challenge for marine geoscientists. Knowledge of seabed bathymetry and morphology has significantly impacted our understanding of our planet dynamics. The history and scientific t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,350 Views
14 Pages

Data from geocryological studies of soil and rock massifs in permafrost zone are very important as a basis for predicting possible negative consequences associated with climate change. A promising technique for studying geocryological structures (var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,941 Views
17 Pages

Characterization of Potential Micrometeorites by Synchrotron Analysis

  • Madison Esposito,
  • Kevin Souhrada,
  • Erin Garland,
  • Mary Kroll,
  • Robert Bolen,
  • Victoria Hernandez,
  • Janet Kaczmarek,
  • David Meisel,
  • Anya Swiss and
  • Paul Northrup
  • + 3 authors

Micrometeorites (MMs) are small particles that account for most of the extraterrestrial material deposited on Earth. Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence and diffraction allowed for chemical and mineral characterization to distinguish MM from atmospheric p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
22,381 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Proxy Characterisation of the Storegga Tsunami and Its Impact on the Early Holocene Landscapes of the Southern North Sea

  • Vincent Gaffney,
  • Simon Fitch,
  • Martin Bates,
  • Roselyn L. Ware,
  • Tim Kinnaird,
  • Benjamin Gearey,
  • Tom Hill,
  • Richard Telford,
  • Cathy Batt and
  • Ben Stern
  • + 15 authors

Doggerland was a landmass occupying an area currently covered by the North Sea until marine inundation took place during the mid-Holocene, ultimately separating the British landmass from the rest of Europe. The Storegga Event, which triggered a tsuna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,033 Views
21 Pages

The Medicine Hat Block and the Early Paleoproterozoic Assembly of Western Laurentia

  • Jennifer N. Gifford,
  • Shawn J. Malone and
  • Paul A. Mueller

The accretion of the Wyoming, Hearne, and Superior Provinces to form the Archean core of western Laurentia occurred rapidly in the Paleoproterozoic. Missing from Hoffman’s (1988) original rapid aggregation model was the Medicine Hat block (MHB)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,342 Views
17 Pages

Recent Climatic Mass Balance of the Schiaparelli Glacier at the Monte Sarmiento Massif and Reconstruction of Little Ice Age Climate by Simulating Steady-State Glacier Conditions

  • Stephanie Suzanne Weidemann,
  • Jorge Arigony-Neto,
  • Ricardo Jaña,
  • Guilherme Netto,
  • Inti Gonzalez,
  • Gino Casassa and
  • Christoph Schneider

The Cordillera Darwin Icefield loses mass at a similar rate as the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields, showing contrasting individual glacier responses, particularly between the north-facing and south-facing glaciers, which are subject to cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,304 Views
14 Pages

The present work is concerned with the effect of soil spatial variability on estimating the ultimate soil resistance of floating axially loaded piles from point measurements of soil properties along the pile. The ultimate limit state is considered. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,765 Views
21 Pages

This paper presents the use of a 700 mm-diameter contiguous bored pile (CBP) wall for a main basement deep excavation project with cut-and-cover tunnel. Due to the presence of cement grout columns between piles behind the CBP wall, the main basement...

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