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Geosciences, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2021 - 43 articles

Cover Story: At the southern termination of the Western Alps, a system of transpressive faults and deformation units developed externally to the Penninic Front in Oligocene and Miocene, while the shortening of the SW Alps and tectonic transport toward SSW (Dauphinois foreland) was continuing. The activity of these tectonic features of the SW Alps’ axial belt was recorded by the sedimentary evolution of the adjoining, inner synorogenic basin (Tertiary Piemonte Basin, TPB), which also rested on the simultaneously forming Apennines belt. The TPB setting thus allows us to constrain the kinematics of the interfering northward propagating Apennines thrust fronts and transpressive Oligocene-Miocene faults of the exhuming SW Alps. View this paper.
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Articles (43)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
18,337 Views
15 Pages

A Review on Historical Tsunamis in the Canary Islands: Implications for Tsunami Risk Reduction

  • Inés Galindo,
  • Carmen Romero,
  • Esther Martín-González,
  • Juana Vegas and
  • Nieves Sánchez

The analysis of the historical documentary sources together with evidence from the geological record is essential to understand the impact and processes triggered by tsunamis on the Canary Islands. This archipelago has been affected by tsunamis cause...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,073 Views
27 Pages

Small cities are an important part of the settlement system, a link between rural areas and large cities. Although they perform important functions, research focuses on large cities and metropolises while marginalizing small cities, the study of whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,373 Views
23 Pages

Spatial Assessment of Wildfires Susceptibility in Santa Cruz (Bolivia) Using Random Forest

  • Marcela Bustillo Sánchez,
  • Marj Tonini,
  • Anna Mapelli and
  • Paolo Fiorucci

Wildfires are expected to increase in the near future, mainly because of climate changes and land use management. One of the most vulnerable areas in the world is the forest in central-South America, including Bolivia. Despite that this country is hi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,575 Views
20 Pages

Analyses of benthic foraminiferal assemblages were carried out on sediment samples collected in the Gulf of Patti (NE Sicily, Tyrrhenian Sea), where high sedimentation rates in front of the Mazzarrà River led to the growth of a prodelta. The frequenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,207 Views
17 Pages

The Biot coefficient is a parameter that is encountered in the theory of classical poroelasticity, dealing with the mechanics of a fluid-saturated porous medium with elastic grains and an elastic skeletal structure. In particular, the coefficient pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,063 Views
22 Pages

Stiffness and Strength of Stabilized Organic Soils—Part II/II: Parametric Analysis and Modeling with Machine Learning

  • Negin Yousefpour,
  • Zenon Medina-Cetina,
  • Francisco G. Hernandez-Martinez and
  • Abir Al-Tabbaa

Predicting the range of achievable strength and stiffness from stabilized soil mixtures is critical for engineering design and construction, especially for organic soils, which are often considered “unsuitable” due to their high compressibility and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,638 Views
11 Pages

Water-Rock Interaction and Potential Contamination Risk in a U-Enriched Area

  • Margarida Antunes,
  • Rui Teixeira,
  • Teresa Albuquerque,
  • Teresa Valente,
  • Paula Carvalho and
  • António Santos

The Picoto mining area is in the village of Vilar Seco (Viseu), central Portugal. Mineralization occurs mainly in quartz veins with meta-torbernite and uranophane and some U-bearing minerals, cutting a Variscan granite. Exploitation took place in two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,923 Views
19 Pages

In this study, we propose a predictive model for maceral discrimination based on Raman spectroscopic analyses of dispersed organic matter. Raman micro-spectroscopy was coupled with optical and Rock-Eval pyrolysis analyses on a set of seven samples co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,169 Views
20 Pages

Kinematics is a key component of a landslide hazard because landslides moving at similar rates can affect structures or collapse differently depending on their mechanisms. While a complete definition of landslide kinematics requires integrating surfa...

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