2025 July - 41 articles
With growing reliance on hydraulic fracturing to develop tight oil and gas reservoirs characterized by low porosity and permeability, optimizing proppant transport and placement has become critical to sustaining fracture conductivity and production....
The increasing demand for high-resolution subsurface imaging has driven significant advances in geophysical inversion methodologies. Despite the availability of various software packages for electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), time-domain induce...
Intensive irrigation in arid and semi-arid regions can cause significant environmental issues, including salinity, waterlogging, and water quality deterioration. Watershed modeling helps us understand essential water balance components in these areas...
Accurate precipitation forecasting remains a critical challenge due to the nonlinear and multifactorial nature of rainfall dynamics. This is particularly important in arid regions like Tamanghasset, where precipitation is the primary driver of agricu...
The number of publications in the scientific literature dealing with geomorphological mapping has increased over the last two decades. Although geomorphological maps are utilised in various contexts, such as hazard assessment, archaeology, and touris...
The worldwide expansion of geotourism and its ongoing development have captured the interest of numerous scholars, prompting them to investigate various theoretical dimensions within this emerging field. This paper explores the concept of geotourism...
The Sidi Aissa Pb-Zn-(Ag) District, located within the Nappe Zone of northern Tunisia, has been reinterpreted as a typical intermediate-sulfidation (IS) epithermal mineralization system based on field observations and lithogeochemical analyses. Previ...
This study presents the living coccolithophore communities and the morphological variability of Emiliania huxleyi in the South Aegean Sea from three sampling regions during winter-early spring (March 2017, March 2019) and summer (August 2019). Emphas...
Impact cratering determined by collisions with meteorites and asteroids is considered one of the main natural processes in the Solar System, modifying the planets and their satellites surface during time. The Earth includes in its impact record a sma...
Carbon isotopes in magmatic systems serve as powerful tracers for understanding magma evolution, mantle processes, the deep carbon cycle, and the origin of Earth’s carbon. This review provides a comprehensive overview of carbon isotope measurem...
The soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) is a key foundation in unsaturated soil mechanics describing the relationship between matric suction and water content, which is crucial for studies on effective stress, permeability coefficients, and other...
A new Integrated Spatial Geophysical and Geotechnical Evaluation (I.S.G.E) methodology has been developed to estimate the spatial distribution of geotechnical parameters using high-resolution geophysical methods. The proposed algorithm is based on fu...
An experimental study was conducted to investigate the flexural mechanical properties of mineralized (massive sulfides) and non-mineralized (meta-rhyolitic tuff) rock samples using a three-point bending test. Mineralogical analysis was conducted on s...
The Kaiparowits Formation preserves one of the best fossil records of Cretaceous North America, which provides great insight into the paleoecology. In an effort to investigate the paleohydrology of the Kaiparowits Formation, stable isotope compositio...
Considering the increasing requirements for the recovery of different natural and industrial waste materials, the application of volcanic ash as an alternative sustainable binder to traditionally employed lime and cement is proposed for soil stabiliz...
This study presents the first detailed analysis of a Late Pleistocene cliff-front dune in northern Mallorca (Western Mediterranean). The research is based on sedimentological fieldwork conducted in a disused coastal quarry, where stratigraphic column...
This research aims to characterize sediment dynamics in the Rupinaro catchment, a uniquely terraced and human-shaped basin in Italy’s Liguria region, employing geomorphometric methods to unravel sediment connectivity in a landscape vulnerable t...
Seismic data processing is essential in hydrocarbon exploration, with normal moveout (NMO) correction being a pivotal step in enhancing seismic signal quality. However, conventional NMO correction often suffers from the stretch effect, which distorts...
Amid increasing interest in enhanced oil recovery and carbon geological sequestration programs, improved static reservoir lithofacies models are emerging as a requirement for well-guided project management. Building reservoir models can leverage seis...
The Eastern Carpathians are thrust to the east and north over their Eastern European foreland, tectonically covering it over an area several hundred kilometers across. Information about the nature of the underthrust part of the Carpathian foreland ca...
Accurate surface water volume (SWV) estimates are crucial for effective water resource management and for the regional monitoring of hydrological trends. This study introduces a multi-resolution surface water volume estimation framework that integrat...
Simulating potential glacier collapses can provide crucial support for local disaster prevention and mitigation efforts. The Xiaomagou Glacier in the Amnye Machen Mountains, Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, has experienced five collapses in the past tw...
Internal soil erosion caused by water infiltration around defective buried pipes poses a significant threat to the long-term stability of underground infrastructures such as pipelines and highway culverts. This study employs a coupled computational f...
Field surveys focused on detailed mapping and measurements of coseismic surface ruptures along the causative fault of the 6 February 2023, Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake. The aim was filling gaps in the previously available surface-faulting tra...
Infrasound signal classification remains a critical challenge in geophysical monitoring systems, where classification performance is fundamentally constrained by feature extraction efficacy. Existing two-dimensional feature extraction methods suffer...
Field-based landslide mapping is a crucial task for geo-hydrological risk assessment but is often limited by the lack of integrated tools to capture accurate spatial and temporal data. This research investigates a Direct Numerical Cartography (DNC) s...
Ice wedges, which are ubiquitous in permafrost areas, play a significant role in the evolution of permafrost landscapes, influencing the topography and hydrology of these regions. In this paper, we combine a detailed multi-generational, interdiscipli...
Specific computational methods, such as machine learning algorithms, can assist mining professionals in quickly and consistently identifying and addressing classification issues related to mineralized horizons, as well as uncovering key variables tha...
In this study, we analyzed the microearthquake seismicity in the Enguri area (Georgia) recorded between 2020 and 2023 using a newly installed seismic network developed within the DAMAST project. The high sensitivity of the network allowed the detecti...
A long-wavelength geoidal geometry reflects mainly lateral density variations in the Earth’s mantle, with the most pronounced features of the Indian Ocean Geoid Low and the West Pacific and North Atlantic Geoid Highs. Despite this spatial patte...
This work presents an analysis of the sub-ionospheric VLF transmitter signal disturbances which were detected more than one week before the Turkey–Syria EQ occurrence. We have applied the multi-terminator method when considering amplitude and p...
The dynamics of large lake circulations are strongly modulated by wind forcing, thermal gradients, and shoreline topography, yet their integrated effects remain insufficiently quantified. To address this, numerical simulations were conducted in Lake...
Standalone tsunami defense structures have demonstrated limitations in mitigating wave energy during the 2011 Japan tsunami. In order to mitigate future tsunamis in Japan, multi-layered protective mechanisms have been suggested or implemented after t...
Ice thickness is a key parameter for glacier mass estimations and glacier dynamics simulations. Multiple physical models have been developed by glaciologists to estimate glacier ice thickness. However, obtaining internal and basal glacier parameters...
Atmospheric pressure gradients determine the dynamics of the southwest monsoon (SWM) and northeast monsoon (NEM), resulting in rainfall in the Indian subcontinent. Consequently, the surface salinity, mixed layer, and thermocline are impacted by the s...
Non-Newtonian mud and debris flows include a wide range of physical processes depending on the setting, concentration, and soil properties. Numerical modelers have developed a variety of non-Newtonian algorithms to simulate this range of physical pro...
Managing groundwater flow in crystalline basement aquifers (CBAs) remains challenging due to their dependence on secondary permeability fields characterized by high spatial variability. This study combines pumping and tracer tests to estimate the hyd...
In open-pit mines, substantial amounts of dust are generated at various stages. Due to the long duration, repeated mechanical disturbance, and large volume of material handled during the shoveling and loading of blasting piles, this stage is recogniz...
In intermittent gas lift (IGL), not all the liquid initially in the tubing is usually produced at the surface in one cycle. This is due to a concept known as fallback, which occurs when some amount of the initial liquid column drops back to join the...
Natural caves have a great heritage and natural value, which has made them a tourist attraction that contributes positively to the diversification of tourist offerings in Spain. Volcanic caves are a particular type of natural cave, exclusive to the C...
Case histories have shown that the liquefaction behavior of soils can differ depending on the pre-seismic history of sites. Assessing the shear modulus in soils subjected to seismic events is critical for advancing the fundamental understanding of so...
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