Geosciences, Volume 13, Issue 9

Advances in research on environmental problems and public awareness of them have led to renewed concern about the need to establish mechanisms and figures to protect and manage sites so that geoecological processes remain outside the dynamics of anth...

Magnetic fabric, paleomagnetic, and petrophysical studies were conducted on rocks in the Tafresh area of the central Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc in Iran. The samples included Late Triassic dark gray sandstone, a mafic dyke, diorites, and a felsic dy...

There are different ideas about the classification and distribution of permafrost in Mongolia. Terms such as continuous, discontinuous, sporadic, and isolated permafrost are inconsistently applied; hence, maps of permafrost display different distribu...

We report estimated stable isotope compositions of Artic paleoprecipitation using phyllosilicates sampled from three paleosols and two bentonites in the Prince Creek Formation (Maastrichtian) in northern Alaska. Previous studies reported a deuterium...

This paper uses the displacement discontinuity method, one of the boundary element methods, to solve two major engineering problems. The first one addresses the safe design of underground excavations in fractured rock masses. The implemented method w...

This study delves into the southern Aegean regionwhere the subduction of the oceanic Mediterranean lithosphere under the Aegean continental one takes place. This region is considered one of the most active ones in the eastern Mediterranean Sea due to...

Cultural heritage is one of the most exceptional resources characterizing the Italian territory. Archaeological heritage, i.e., the archaeological sites with different types of archaeological artifacts, strongly contributes to enriching the national...

The presence of active hydrothermal vent fields near residential areas and their possible link to volcanic activity poses a potential hazard to the environment, society, and the economy. By capitalizing on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle sampling metho...

This study reports a fractal analysis of one-year radon in groundwater disturbances from five stations in China amidst the catastrophic Wenchuan (Mw = 7.9) earthquake of 12 May 2008 (day 133). Five techniques are used (DFA, fractal dimensions with Hi...

We utilized the random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm, along with nine topographical/morphological factors, namely aspect, slope, geomorphons, plan curvature, profile curvature, terrain roughness index, surface texture, topographic wetness in...