2025 October - 36 articles
Metabasic rocks (eclogites and amphibolites) from four Betic ophiolite outcrops (Lugros, Almirez, Cóbdar, and Algarrobo), comprising Ol-Px gabbros, dolerites, and MORB-affinity basalts, were studied. U-Pb SHRIMP zircon dating yielded Early to...
Soil piping is the process by which subsurface water creates and enlarges channels, or “pipes,” within soil, enabling rapid and preferential flow beneath the surface. The collapse of these eroded pipes can lead to land degradation, gully...
Determining a high-precision national geoid is a fundamental step in modernizing Kazakhstan’s vertical reference system. However, the country’s vast territory, complex topography, and limited coverage of modern terrestrial and airborne gr...
Unauthorized fossil trafficking violates national legislation and deprives cultural and natural heritage. This study proposes a pilot method to fingerprint the origin of fossils by characterizing the carbon and oxygen stable isotope signatures of fos...
Flash floods in Mediterranean mountain catchments are a significant natural hazard, but systematic historical records of their occurrence are often lacking. This study reconstructs the history of torrential activity in the previously unexplored Arroy...
The need to mathematically model and numerically simulate the effect of temperature on the hydro-mechanical behavior of soils, driven by the increased interest in energy geostructures and sundry other geothermal systems, has necessitated the developm...
The Manicouagan impact structure in northeastern Canada is one of the largest, well-documented impact sites among Phanerozoic structures. Once considered a candidate for the cause of end-Triassic extinctions, radioisotopic dating of impact melt rock...
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The Kavokta deposit in Russia contains gray and black dolomite-type nephrite, which is in high demand commercially. Although the fact that black nephrite has been found in several deposits, the reasons for its color are not well understood. The prese...
Reservoir landslides undergo saturated–unsaturated transitions under hydrological variations. Matric suction significantly influences slip-zone soil strength. Existing studies lack analysis of suction–rate–strength coupling, while A...
Costa Rica has experienced 45 tsunamis at both its Pacific and Caribbean coasts, with none to moderated impact. However, the coastal population has increased exponentially in the past few decades, which might lead to higher impact in future tsunamis....
Ordovician marine red beds (OMRBs) are widely developed along the margins of Gondwana and represent distinctive limestone facies. These red beds are known for their diverse sedimentary structures and have been described by scholars as the “fash...
Asbestos, consisting of six natural mineral fibrous silicate phases, was widely utilized in industrial development during the 20th century and has left a global legacy of health, environmental, and regulatory challenges. Its remarkable properties (e....
Limestone in Japan exhibits distinct distribution patterns and associated lithologies compared to limestone found in most other parts of the world. These differences reflect contrasting depositional settings and formation processes. While the majorit...
The Early Pleistocene continental deposits of the Tiberino Basin (Central Italy) host exceptionally preserved fossil charophyte assemblages that provide critical insights into palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic dynamics during a key phase of the...
This study develops a geomorphological identification methodology for wall reefs in the microcontinental environment of Wangiwangi Island, Indonesia, using medium-resolution Landsat 8 satellite imagery and morphological analysis based on Maxwell&rsqu...
Landslides represent a recurrent hazard in tropical mountain environments, where rapid urbanization and extreme rainfall amplify disaster risk. The Sentani region of Papua, Indonesia, is highly vulnerable, as demonstrated by the catastrophic debris f...
Nano- and micro-indentation have become essential tools for quantifying the micromechanical behavior of rocks beyond traditional macroscopic tests. This review summarizes the historical evolution, experimental methodologies, and interpretation models...
This study reconstructs seven decades (1949–2019) of morphodynamic changes and sediment dynamics in the Diable River (Québec, Canada) using nine series of aerial photographs, a high-resolution LiDAR Digital Elevation Model (2021), and gr...
Accurate inversion of the T2 spectrum of shale oil reservoir fluids is crucial for reservoir evaluation. However, traditional nuclear magnetic resonance inversion methods face challenges in extracting features from multi-exponential decay signals. Th...
Understanding the fluid storage and production mechanisms in sedimentary rocks is vital for optimising natural gas extraction and subsurface resource management. This study applies high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (≈15 μm) to digiti...
The West Qinling Orogenic Belt (WQOB) contains a sedimentary succession that is approximately 15 km thick, spanning from the Carboniferous to the Jurassic period. This succession offers critical insights into the tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Tethy...
The paper presents the main features of a Web-GIS platform designed to compute real-time scenario-based seismic risk assessments at the national level. Based on the Italian experience, the platform enables DRM scientist and policymakers to readily ge...
This study predicts sedimentary architectures and facies distribution within the Pliocene prograding prism of the Roussillon Basin (Gulf of Lion, France), developed along an onshore–offshore continuum. Boreholes and outcrops provide facies-scale obse...
Mineral prospecting from vast geological text corpora is impeded by challenges in domain-specific semantic interpretation and knowledge synthesis. General-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to parse the complex lexicon and relational seman...
The karst landscape of Trenggalek Regency, located in several sub-districts including Dongko, Kampak, and Watulimo, is shaped by the Wonosari Formation and is characterized by springs and underground rivers. Due to water scarcity in the region, local...
The aim of this study is to determine the spatial distribution of geochemical anomalies of selected potential toxic elements in the soils of the river basins in the Northeastern Caucasus—specifically the Ulluchay, Sulak, and Sunzha Rivers. A co...
An exposed sedimentary succession, ca 115 m of a total of 1000 m, from the Eastern Carpathian foredeep was, for the first time, analyzed using facies analysis and scale- and time-independent sequence stratigraphy methods to reveal the depositional en...
Cave systems are a kind of natural laboratory for interdisciplinary research on karstogenesis in the context of global changes. In this study, we investigate the concentration of 222Rn at 65 points in 37 representative caves of Bulgarian karst throug...
The lack of research on the slip behavior of the NW-trending faults in the central Tibetan Plateau constrains our understanding of the deformation models for this region. The Ba Co Fault, located in the central Tibetan Plateau, is a NW–SE-trend...
Cave systems serve as key interfaces connecting surface and underground carbon cycles, and research on their carbon dynamics provides a unique perspective for revealing the mechanisms of carbon transport and transformation in karst critical zones. In...
Small landslides, though frequent, are often overlooked despite their significant potential impact on human-affected areas. This study presents an analysis of the Bella Orxeta landslide in Alicante, Spain, a rotational landslide event that occurred i...
This article discusses the growing role of Geomatics and Geoinformatics in the education of specialists at various universities, with particular emphasis on the mining industry. The study used a qualitative desk research approach that included analys...
The digitization of geological heritage is essential for geoconservation, research, and education, yet traditional 3D methods like photogrammetry struggle to accurately capture specimens with complex optical properties. This paper evaluates 3D Gaussi...
Low-temperature oxidation of titanomagnetite in oceanic basalts distorts the primary thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) signal essential for reconstructing Earth’s magnetic field history, though the specific impact of magma intrusion-induced ox...
The presence of discontinuities in fractured reservoirs, their mechanical and physical characteristics, and fluid flow through them are important factors influencing their effective large-scale properties. In this paper, the variation of elastic modu...
