2025 April - 45 articles
This study employs a multidisciplinary approach, integrating geoarchaeology, geomorphology, archaeometry, and palynology to analyze settlement patterns and land use in the surroundings of Capua (southern Italy) during the medieval transition. Borehol...
The Afghanistan earthquake of 21 June 2022 ruptured a ~10 km-long fault segment in the North Waziristan–Bannu fault system (NWBFS) located towards the north of the Katawaz Basin. The earthquake was shallow and reportedly caused widespread devas...
Understanding the in situ stress state and mechanical properties of rock masses is essential for ensuring the stability and safety of quarrying operations. This study aims to estimate the natural stress state of rock using the CSIRO HI (Hollow Inclus...
The European Ground Motion Service (EGMS), part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), provides free pan-European ground motion data to support local and regional ground deformation analyses. To enhance the accessibility and usability of E...
A comprehensive analysis of modern tsunami deposits offers a valuable opportunity to elucidate the characteristics of paleo-tsunami deposits. On 1 January 2024, a tsunami was generated by a magnitude 7.6 seismic event and subsequently struck the Noto...
Landslides are one of the most serious problems affecting large parts of the world. There are two approaches that are used to study the organization of these land cover features: firstly, an approach utilizing lithostratigraphic tools, where soils ar...
Recently published marine geophysical and seafloor drilling data permit a substantive reappraisal of the rifting and spreading that formed the South China Sea (SCS). The SCS rifted margins are different from those of the Atlantic type, having higher...
The Mesoproterozoic (~1470 Ma) Wolf River batholith (WRB) is exposed over 6500 km2, encompassing 11 plutons that crosscut the Archean Marshfield and Proterozoic Penokean terranes. As the WRB is the classically defined anorogenic batholith, to test th...
For the safety assessment of concrete dam–foundation systems, this study used an explicit time-stepping small-displacement algorithm, which simulates the hydromechanical interaction and considers the discrete representation of the foundation di...
The Sredogriv greenschist facies rocks belong to the Western Balkan Zone in northwestern Bulgaria. The low-grade rocks consist of clastic-tuffaceous precursors and presumably olistostromic magmatic bodies. We present U-Pb LA-ICP-MS zircon age constra...
Earthquakes (EQs) are the most unpredictable and damaging natural disasters. Over the last hundred years, the scientific community has been engaged in an intense endeavor to attain a confident and secure method of seismic activity forecasting. So far...
This paper utilises teleseismic Z-component data to investigate rupture propagation, extent, and velocity for two very destructive earthquakes in the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ): the
Digital image correlation (DIC) is a non-contact optical method that can provide high-resolution strain and displacement measurements, but its effectiveness depends on surface texture contrast. This study investigates the effects of surface character...
We report on the resolution of the vibration problem for a homogeneous and isotropic elastic half-space (the Lamb problem), with application to the seismic tensorial force. We assume a homogeneous and isotropic half-space with a localized force which...
The North Caspian Basin, known for its oil and gas potential, was formed because of the evolution of the ancient Tethys Ocean and is also a result of the collision of the East European, Kazakhstania, and Siberian paleocontinents. At the beginning of...
Hydraulic fracturing experimentation is an essential tool for understanding the application of hydraulic fracturing in producing hydrocarbons from unconventional reservoirs. Laboratory testing methods such as uniaxial, biaxial, and true triaxial test...
This study investigates the characteristics of secondary fragmentation and fines generation in cave mining through DEM simulations. The objective is not to develop a tool for accurately estimating fragmentation observed at drawpoints. Instead, the re...
The morphological characteristics of catchments are key controls on how flow is routed through catchments and the spatial and temporal dynamics of floods, therefore influencing the shape of hydrographs at any location. Here, we developed a hydro-morp...
The stability analysis of rock slopes traditionally involves the evaluation of limit state conditions to determine the potential for rockslides and rockfalls. However, empirical evidence supported by experimental studies has highlighted the complex r...
This study focused on identifying Th-, Nb-Ta-, Zr-, and REE-bearing minerals with a multivariate statistical approach in alkaline syenite to evaluate their radiological risks, at Nikeiba, Egypt. Through microchemical analyses, by utilizing electron p...
This study examines the relative sea-level changes during the Upper Holocene period along the south coastline of Cyprus through the investigation of beachrock formations and their impact on archaeological sites. Beachrock, as a natural indicator of p...
The Brazilian semiarid region faces water scarcity, with alluvial aquifers playing a crucial role in agricultural water security. This study assesses the spatiotemporal variability of groundwater quantity and salinity, analyzing natural and anthropog...
Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks in Jordan are the main resources for construction and paint-related industrial applications. This study evaluates the elemental composition, mineralogy, and petrography of two main geological formations from two local...
Deep gravitational slope deformations (DsGSDs) are a geological and engineering challenge with important implications for slope stability, the reliability of existing infrastructures, land use and, above all, the safety of settlements. This paper foc...
Detrital zircon (DZ) ages of Cretaceous sandstones in the United States contain critical spatial and temporal information on their sedimentary provenance and on the reorganization of drainage patterns. Herein, we report zircon U-Pb ages of sandstones...
The prediction of structural fractures in concealed coal-bearing strata has always been a complex problem. The purpose of this study was to clarify the tectonic evolution of the study area, i.e., the Tucheng syncline, since the coal-forming period an...
Landslides present remarkable hazards in the Himalayan region, particularly in areas with young and fragile topography. Mitigating vulnerability requires assessing susceptibility, which relies heavily on the accuracy of susceptibility maps generated...
When rivers impinge on the steep bluffs of valley walls, dynamic changes stem from a combination of fluvial and mass wasting processes. This study identifies the geomorphic changes, drivers, and timing of a landslide adjacent to the Apalachicola Rive...
This study examines four shallow-water, reef-coral-bearing carbonate successions belonging to the Jhill Limestone Unit of the Gaj Formation, exposed in the area near Karachi (southern Pakistan). Sixty-two samples were collected for the quantitative a...
Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) is a widely used geophysical technique for imaging subsurface resistivity variations, providing critical insights for geological engineering and hazard assessment applications. While open-source inversion tools...
This study incorporates the comprehensively observed proxies of in situ geotechnical, geophysical, petrophysical, and lithological datasets to estimate groundwater presence. Two machine-learning approaches, random forest regression (RFR) and deep neu...
Prediction of the intensity of earthquake-induced motions at the ground surface attracts extensive attention from the geoscience community due to the significant threat it poses to humans and the built environment. Several factors are involved, inclu...
The geoheritage present on the “Tindari Cape and Marinello Lakes” site (TCML, Messina Province, NE Sicily, Italy) drew our attention due to the acquired contrasting information. Indeed, the TCML geoheritage was classified in the geosite n...
We draw connections between eight different theories used to describe microscopic (atomic) and macroscopic (seismological) scales. In particular, we show that all these different theories belong to a particular case of a single partial differential e...
In geosciences, soil–water interactions are defined by soil water potential, which provides a quantitative estimate of the soil water thermodynamic state. Due to the interactions between water and soil particles, soil water has different physic...
Geopolymers have attracted wide attention as effective soil stabilisers, presenting significant potential for several geotechnical engineering applications. These binders offer environmental benefits by utilising abandoned aluminosilicate industrial...
The long-offset transient electromagnetic (LOTEM) method, as a widely applied electromagnetic exploration technique, plays a significant role in mineral resource exploration, hydraulic fracturing monitoring, and fluid identification in oil and gas re...
The traditional design of foundations in soft clay often relies on large-diameter piles, which, although effective, are costly and impractical for low- to medium-rise buildings. Micropiles have emerged as a cost-effective alternative, offering an eff...
Climate during the Late Cretaceous is characterized by a long-term cooling trend interrupted by several periods of increased warming. This study focuses on the terrestrial response to two rapid climate events just prior to the K-Pg boundary marked by...
Rainfall is one of the major causes of geological hazards such as landslides and slope failures because it decreases shear strength along the failure surface and increases the driving force of the sliding mass due to the movement of the wetting front...
The discrepancy between perceived and actual data quality, shaped by stakeholders’ interpretations of technical specifications, poses significant challenges in governance, impacting decision-making and stakeholder trust. To address this, we int...
An analysis of different geosites as territories of high geo-biodiverse value located within the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ) in Ecuador is performed based on the geoscientific inventory of thirty-six territorial zones and their geological hi...
In practice, site-specific one-dimensional (1D) seismic site response analyses are conducted to compute surface acceleration time histories considering shear wave velocity profile, modulus reduction, damping, and site-specific ground motions. The com...
The well-known uncertainties in subsurface velocity field definition call for the integration of all the available data, including vintage seismic profiles, which, despite typically being in raster or paper format, often contain velocities derived fr...
A magnitude (M) 7.7 quake struck on 6 February 2023 in Turkey. Nine hours later, a M7.5 quake occurred near the initial M7.7 quake. We studied seismicity before and after these doublet quakes, integrating physics-based and statistical approaches. We...
