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Geosciences, Volume 14, Issue 8

August 2024 - 30 articles

Cover Story: Virtual 3-D reconstruction of Marseille basin (Bouches-du-Rhône, France) 1 Myr ago, with its landscape diversity, its edible plants including proto-cereals, fruits and herbaceous plants, and its water resources. Based in particular on pollen records (four examples shown), it was a favorable site for the early Pleistocene hominin migration along the northern shore of the Mediterranean. The Marseilles basin is the third site after Acıgöl and Kocabaş, in south-west Anatolia, to show the presence of proto-cereal pollen well before the start of the Neolithic period 12,000 years ago. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,052 Views
27 Pages

An understanding of the trend and relationship between rainfall patterns and water quality dynamics can provide valuable guidelines for the effective management of water resources. The aim of this study was to reveal the synchronous trends in rainfal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,650 Views
23 Pages

The Origins of the Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) Gas in the Triassic Montney Formation, British Columbia, Canada

  • Gareth Chalmers,
  • Pablo Lacerda Silva,
  • Amanda Bustin,
  • Andrea Sanlorenzo and
  • Marc Bustin

The inexplicable distribution of souring wells (presence of H2S gas) of the unconventional Montney Formation hydrocarbon resource (British Columbia; BC) is investigated by analysing sulphur and oxygen isotopes, coupled with XRD mineralogy, scanning e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,426 Views
19 Pages

Worldwide, landslides claim many lives each year, with an average of 162.6 deaths reported in Japan from 1945 to 2019. There is growing concern about a potential increase in this number due to climate change. The primary source of shallow and rapid l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,133 Views
19 Pages

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Investigations in Urban Areas Affected by Gravity-Driven Deformations

  • Nicola Angelo Famiglietti,
  • Pietro Miele,
  • Bruno Massa,
  • Antonino Memmolo,
  • Raffaele Moschillo,
  • Luigi Zarrilli and
  • Annamaria Vicari

The 1980 Ms 6.9 Irpinia earthquake was responsible for the activation or reactivation of numerous gravitative deformations mainly hosted by clayey lithotypes, affecting wide areas of Benevento Province and the Sele and Ofanto R. Valleys. The case of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,681 Views
15 Pages

Risk Assessment of Nephrotoxic Metals in Soil and Water in Areas with High Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in Panama

  • Benedicto Valdés-Rodríguez,
  • Virginia Montero-Campos,
  • Matthew G. Siebecker,
  • Amanda Jo Zimmerman,
  • Mauricio Vega-Araya,
  • Sharon P. Ulate Chacón and
  • Dalys Rovira

Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN) is a non-traditional chronic kidney disease in some areas of Mesoamerica. The health risk from nephrotoxic metals, such as arsenic (As), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), vanadium (V), cadmium (Cd), rubidium (Rb), chromium (Cr),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,679 Views
23 Pages

For most landslides, several destabilising processes act simultaneously, leading to relative sliding along the soil or rock mass surface over time. A number of machine learning approaches have been proposed recently for accurate relative and cumulati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,379 Views
21 Pages

Makran Subduction Zone: A Review and Synthesis

  • Peyman Namdarsehat,
  • Wojciech Milczarek,
  • Seyed-Hani Motavalli-Anbaran and
  • Matin Khaledzadeh

This review synthesizes existing research to elucidate the factors driving the distinct tectonic behaviors in the western and eastern Makran subduction zone, focusing on seismic activity, uplift rate, convergence rate, coupling, and subduction angle....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,007 Views
32 Pages

Stealth Metasomatism in Granulites from Ivrea (NW Italy): Hydration of the (Variscan) Lower Crust by Melt Flow

  • Stylianos Karastergios,
  • Simona Ferrando,
  • Barbara E. Kunz and
  • Maria Luce Frezzotti

Granulites and associated dykes from the less well-studied southern Ivrea–Verbano Zone (around Ivrea town) are characterized by combining field, macro, micro and chemical (major and trace-element mineral composition) data to identify chemical a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,296 Views
18 Pages

Interpreting Soft-Sediment Deformation Structures: Insights into Earthquake History and Depositional Processes in the Dead Sea, Jordan

  • Bety S. Al-Saqarat,
  • Mahmoud Abbas,
  • Mu’ayyad Al Hseinat,
  • Tala Amer Qutishat,
  • Duha Shammar and
  • Ehab AlShamaileh

Soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDSs) typically form in unconsolidated sedimentary deposits before lithification. Understanding these structures involves evaluating their characteristics, genesis timing, and the dynamics of sediment deformatio...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,053 Views
9 Pages

On 8 July 2024, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck the province of Chiriquí in Panama, primarily impacting areas characterized by informal settlements and low-income neighborhoods. The earthquake was recorded by both the Panama Accelerographic...

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Geosciences - ISSN 2076-3263