2026 October - 47 articles
This study combines Raman Spectroscopy on Carbonaceous Matter (RSCM) thermometry and 40Ar/39Ar dating to constrain the thermal structure of the Variscan Para-autochthonous Unit (PAU) in the southern French Massif Central. The RSCM data define a regio...
Key stress thresholds—crack initiation stress (Ci), crack damage stress (Cd), and peak strength (Cp)—delineate the progressive stages of crack development, yet their utility for characterizing rock damage in unconventional reservoirs rema...
This study presents a probabilistic deep learning framework developed for full waveform inversion (FWI) to detect and characterise subsurface velocity anomalies induced by stored CO2. Three convolutional neural network architectures—LinkNet, UN...
Lithofacies heterogeneity may separate organic matter enrichment from the normalized oil-bearing response of lacustrine shale, complicating the identification of effective shale oil intervals. To examine this relationship, the Chang 9 Member of Well...
Mineral scale deposits in groundwater-supplied drinking water distribution systems reduce hydraulic efficiency and increase maintenance costs. This study evaluated the effectiveness of citric acid as a descaling agent for natural scale deposits colle...
Establishing the groundwater geochemical background (GGBC) is fundamental for distinguishing seismic precursors from non-tectonic environmental influences. This study characterizes the spatiotemporal evolution of the GGBC in Beijing using 60 groundwa...
Precise assessment of landslide potential in tectonically active mountainous areas like the Darjeeling Sikkim Himalaya (DSH) is a scientific challenge because of the complexity of the terrain and the factors controlling landslides. Despite several st...
This study demonstrates the application of passive seismic interferometry, specifically through single-station autocorrelation, to extract high-resolution P-wave reflections from seismic data acquired during hydraulic fracturing. Using 10 h of contin...
Roman aqueduct bridges are widespread across the seismically active Mediterranean, but their seismic response in areas of very high seismicity remains poorly documented. Here, we present a first-order numerical investigation of the in-plane seismic r...
Regional climate models (RCMs) have become established as essential dynamical downscaling tools, providing physically consistent, high-resolution climate information where global climate models (GCMs) are unable to resolve. Added value is obtained ov...
Time-lapse (4D) seismic inversion is a key tool for monitoring subsurface changes caused by fluid injection and production, but model-based workflows require repeated forward and adjoint evaluations, a wavelet estimate for every vintage, and survey-s...
Deep learning-based mineral image recognition from macroscopic hand-specimen photographs has emerged as an important approach for mineral identification. However, the inherent imbalance in the natural distribution and reserves of minerals leads to a...
Energy piles are multifunctional deep foundations that structurally support buildings while enabling heat exchange between the superstructure and shallow subsurface. It is crucial for the wider use of energy piles and thus reliance on clean, renewabl...
To investigate the influence of joint spatial orientation on the rockburst mechanism of deep roadways, this study employs a true triaxial rockburst testing system to conduct physical simulation experiments on three types of limestone specimens from Y...
An integrated petrographic–geophysical workflow is applied to the Castellina Fortress (16th century AD) to investigate: the masonry texture, construction techniques and lithological provenance. The field activities focused on several architectu...
Right and bowhead whales represent key species in modern-day marine ecosystems because of their capacity to catch enormous amounts of prey items (especially calanoid copepod crustaceans). However, their evolutionary history is still not completely un...
Root systems, the hidden half of terrestrial plants, have been a fundamental geological agent since the late Early Paleozoic, with their evolution preserved in a rich but underutilized archive of soils and sediments. This review adopts a rhizolith-ce...
Pressure-limited dynamic capacity in the Lopín structure is controlled primarily by reservoir transmissibility rather than by static pore volume. This study applies a MATLAB/MRST vertical-equilibrium (VE) workflow to the Lopín horst, a...
Projecting runoff and extreme hydrological events in human-modified basins requires climate, land-use and reported water-consumption forcings to be represented within a single, traceable scenario framework. Here, the Dawen River, the largest tributar...
Seismoelectric responses generated in fluid-saturated porous media contain indirect geophysical information related to subsurface interfaces, material contrasts, and electrokinetic coupling. Many three-dimensional simulations adopt a quasi-static ele...
Remote sensing can support mineral exploration in geologically complex terrains, but distinguishing mineralisation-associated spectral responses from lithological and surficial variability remains challenging. This study presents and evaluates an int...
The Chang 9 interval of the lower Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin is an important exploration target. Integrating stratigraphic correlation of 163 wells, sedimentary facies analysis of 10 wells, reservoir testing, and fluid pressure–tempe...
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is a core indicator of atmospheric evaporative demand and plays a critical role in drought dynamics. Yet the characteristics of extreme PET events and their governing mechanisms remain poorly understood. Unlike prev...
This study investigates the Jurassic successions of the Foligno mountains by tracing tectono-sedimentary contacts across the study area, with particular attention to the relationships between pelagic deposits and the Calcare Massiccio carbonate platf...
Positioned where the Paleo-Tethyan and Paleo-Pacific tectonic systems converge, Hainan Island preserves an important geological archive for deciphering Indosinian tectonism in the southern South China Block. However, the Indosinian magmatic–tec...
Based on a horizontal velocity field of 1123 stations derived from the fusion of multi-source GNSS data spanning 1999–2024 (including CMONOC, densified observations, and SDCORS stations), we utilized the TDEFNODE block-dislocation model to inve...
Bioturbated Viséan sandstone–siltstone intervals of the South Tatar Arch have been interpreted as recording short-lived marine influence, but their ichnological basis has not been examined in detail. This study assesses the palaeoecologi...
This review synthesizes current knowledge of Enceladus as an Ocean World, with emphasis on habitability, organic chemistry, and the search for life. We summarize data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft, including the discovery and characterization of...
Reservoir screening for geological CO2 storage must balance hydraulic performance against geochemical reactivity, but these attributes are rarely compared under a common numerical design. We used a unified two-dimensional radial TOUGHREACT v3.32/E CO...
The Jbel Merguechoum fluorite–barite deposit in northeastern Morocco is a granite-hosted fluorite–barite vein-type deposit whose trace and rare-earth element (REE) geochemistry, role of structural defects and trace elements in fluorite co...
Groundwater ingress and moisture-related deterioration threaten railway tunnels in fractured and hydrogeologically active terrains. This study evaluates sidewall-based three-dimensional (3D) direct current resistivity (DCR) imaging for investigating...
The lack of consensus on appropriate formulations for effective stress, the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC), and the critical-state void ratio has plagued the constitutive modeling of unsaturated soils. This paper presents a numerical parametr...
To evaluate the organic geochemical characteristics, source-rock quality, and remaining hydrocarbon potential of the Lin 1–Lin 2 source rocks in the Xinglong structural belt, Hetao Basin, 20 samples from eight wells were analyzed using TOC, roc...
The growing demand for critical metals associated with the global energy transition has increased interest in their potential recovery as by-products of copper processing. This study investigates critical- and associated-element deportment in ores an...
Magnetic lineaments are usually delineated from derivative-based images through visually selected thresholds, a subjective procedure that is difficult to reproduce over large surveys. We present an automatic workflow based on semantic segmentation. T...
The role of the Ross Sea continental shelf in global carbon cycling has been studied under variable ecological conditions. Here, the spatial distributions of microfossil assemblages and silica-rich spherules from surface sediments across the Ross Sea...
Rapid slip along discontinuities in deep coal–rock systems releases stored energy and generates transient loading that may trigger coal bursts. This review compares intra-coal, coal–rock interface, and fault-zone slip using evidence from...
Gas hydrate accumulations are often hosted in loose and weakly cemented sandy sediments, where hydrate dissociation weakens its cementing effect on the granular skeleton. Under these conditions, flow behavior may depend not only on the release of por...
The Gadvan Formation (Barremian–lower Aptian) is an important Lower Cretaceous unit in the Zagros Basin and the Persian Gulf region. In this study, a detailed microfacies analysis of the Gadvan Formation was conducted based on thin sections fro...
Western Greece poses significant challenges in terms of understanding its tectonic and deformation context. The Aitolo-Akarnania region of our interest is located in the eastern part of the Ionian Akarnanian Block (IAB). Its main active tectonic stru...
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) deployed on submarine telecom cables is bound to revolutionize the earthquake monitoring routine currently performed by seismic network operators, particularly in domains where most seismic activity originates offsh...
Accurate prediction of overpressure in deep reservoirs is critical for hydrocarbon ex-ploration and development. Conventional approaches, such as interpolation of sin-gle-well pressure data and seismic inversion, often produce considerable errors and...
The ~29.5 Ma Topernawi Formation of the northern Turkana Depression, Kenya, is among the few Oligocene syn-rift sedimentary sections exposed in the East African Rift System. We present new 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and field reconnaissance that expand...
On 20 April 2026 at 07:52:58 UTC, an Mw 7.4 earthquake struck offshore Miyako, northeastern Japan. We investigated the resulting coseismic ionospheric disturbances (CIDs) using 1 Hz multi-frequency GNSS observations and ionosonde measurements. Slant...
Between 1922 and 1926, the Geological Mission of Angola, set up by the High Commissioner Norton de Matos and based in the city of Huambo, surveyed over 30,000 km across the former Portuguese colony, while assembling large collections of fossils and r...
The Shitoukoumen area in central Jilin Province, NE China, preserves a Permian blocks-in-matrix assemblage containing pre-Permian mafic and sedimentary blocks that provides an important record of the Paleozoic evolution of the eastern Paleo-Asian Oce...
Rapid regional evaluation of earthquake-induced landslide susceptibility via the traditional Newmark model is often constrained by geotechnical parameter spatial variability and subjective empirical adjustments in static factor of safety (Fs) calcula...
