2026 February - 38 articles
We develop a minimal thermodynamic model to predict Titan’s surface temperature based on radiative–convective equilibrium and the principle of maximum entropy production (MEP). The model retains only the essential atmospheric constituents...
The integration of sedimentological and micropaleontological data in the Zanclean and Gelasian shallow-marine deposits of the Crotone Basin (southern Italy) has allowed documentation of meter-to-decameter-scale high-frequency sequences bounded by wav...
Extreme rainfall events often trigger landslides, debris flows, and sediment-laden floods that cause severe damage in built-up areas, yet sediment deposition is rarely quantified in hazard assessments. This study evaluates the capability of the physi...
This study evaluates the stability and failure probability of rock slopes at Mount Uhud, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, with particular attention to a representative slope in the densely populated southern part. A combined deterministic–probabilistic a...
The paper addresses the limitations of fragmented and delayed hydrological information systems in supporting timely disaster risk mitigation. The paper introduces the RoWaterAPI, a framework that integrates near real-time hydrological measurements wi...
The Bahamas is an ideal location for studying the calcium carbonate sedimentation of Holocene strandplains in relation to seaward progradation. We use ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to image and interpret the fine-scale stratigraphy of three carbonat...
The Marnoso-arenacea basin (MaB) of the Northern Apennines represents one of the most significant lower–middle Miocene foredeep turbidite systems in the Mediterranean region. While the northern part of the basin (Emilia-Romagna Region) has been...
Among the most serious types of land degradation, soil erosion poses a major threat to agricultural productivity, water quality, and ecosystem stability. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this study aimed to identify the spatial patterns of soil er...
This study investigates the presence of Technology-Critical Elements in the Trepça mine (Stan Tërg, Mitrovicë), representing the first assessment of their distribution within this mining district. Samples were collected in all ore bo...
This study addresses a critical knowledge gap in quantifying strategic mineral resources within hyper-arid, tectonically complex terrains by establishing a recursive framework that reconciles deterministic resource estimation with the nonlinear dynam...
Recent exploration has demonstrated significant prospecting potential at the Huayagou Au deposit in Longnan mineral Field, Gansu Province, West Qinling Orogen, Central China. However, the nature and evolution of the auriferous fluids responsible for...
Conventional wisdom posits that smog suppresses outdoor activity while shifting peoples’ activities indoors. Using anonymized Mobile Phone Data Provider Records fused with Point-of-Interest (POI) data sourced from the Gaode (Amap) open database...
Coari Lake is a critical area in the Amazon due to the oil exploration that began in the 1980s. The present study evaluates the impact on Coari Lake and the Solimões River in order to identify the origin of the sedimentary organic matter. This...
A comprehensive investigation was conducted on high-hafnium zircons from the LCT (Li-Cs-Ta) pegmatites of the Vasin-Mylk rare-metal deposit within the Fennoscandian Shield. In situ analysis of trace element composition and oxygen isotope ratios were...
The 2023 Al Haouz earthquake (Mw 6.7–6.9) is the strongest quake ever recorded in modern Morocco and ranks among North Africa’s most significant seismic events of the century. It struck the High Atlas region, causing widespread land chang...
The Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes is a high-elevation asymmetric plateau subjected to NW–SE shortening. An interesting aspect of this plateau is the presence of high geothermal gradients (up to 52 °C/km), constrained by wells dr...
Knowledge of the trace element contents of petroleum can improve crude oil exploration and refining and aid environmental studies. Analytical challenges prompt experimentation with various digestion methods and analytical techniques, but the assessme...
It is important for the rock engineering practice to acknowledge the difference between uncertainty, which diminishes with adequate data access, and radical uncertainty, which persists because critical features and failure mechanisms may remain undet...
This study reveals the effects of artificial space-like proton irradiation on three meteorite samples that are Northwest Africa (NWA) 4560 LL3.2 and NWA 5838 H6 chondrite meteorites, as well as the Dhofar (Dho) 007 eucrite. We used low-vacuum scannin...
We have proposed the reduction in triple integral to double integral that is used in multiple shear mechanism model for faster 3D nonlinear ground motion analysis. In this study, we propose reformulation of the mechanism which results in the expressi...
This study presents an integrated geophysical–geomatic approach for the investigation of archaeological sites, combining low-frequency Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and close-range photogrammetry at the Archaeological Park of Abellinum (southe...
This study is carried out to investigate the radiological characteristics and mineralogical controls of natural radioisotopes (238U, 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K) in granitic pegmatites from Abu Zawal Area (AZA) in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The analyzed...
This review deals with the issue of operational coal quality control using instrumental nuclear–physical methods. The existing traditional method of coal testing, characterized by high labor intensity and low representativeness, cannot serve as...
The efficient extraction of natural gas from water-drive reservoirs is often hindered by premature water breakthrough and the consequent trapping of significant residual gas, which collectively result in suboptimal recovery and economic returns. Trad...
Based on true triaxial loading experiments and particle flow numerical simulations (PFC3D), this study systematically analyzes the mechanical behavior and failure mechanisms of granite under the influence of stress difference (deviatoric stress). The...
Full waveform inversion (FWI) iteratively improves the accuracy of the model by minimizing the discrepancies between the predicted and the observed data. However, FWI commonly suffers from cycle skipping when the initial model is poor, leading to an...
Long-term monitoring of radon (222Rn) and thoron (220Rn) radioactive gases has been used in earthquake forecasting. Seismic activity before earthquakes raises the levels of these gases, causing abnormalities in the baseline values of radon and thoron...
In February 2024, the European Union published its Industrial Carbon Management Strategy, setting ambitious goals for carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), and related technologies. Industrial decarbonisation will re...
Characterization of shale pore architecture forms the scientific basis for effective shale gas exploitation. Deep LMX FM shale from the Luzhou area was analyzed using SANS, LTPA, XRD, and SEM. This study quantitatively characterized the pore structur...
The prediction of earthquake-induced excess pore water pressure is becoming a crucial step for liquefaction-related problems, such as the prediction of settlements, assessment of bearing capacity of shallow foundations, and efficiency of liquefaction...
In 2023–2025, a research study named “Application of nuclear, seismic and infrasound methods for assessing climate change and mitigating the effects of climate change” was conducted in Kazakhstan under the Targeted Funding Program....
Potential tropospheric noise is a critical factor that undermines the effectiveness of deformation monitoring in Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) technologies. In most scenarios, many point targets within the InSAR deformation monitori...
The Jaboi geothermal field, located on Weh Island in western Indonesia, has a potential output of approximately 55 MWe. Previous geophysical surveys have not sufficiently identified the components of the geothermal system. The success of drilling in...
Land subsidence constitutes a critical hazard to coastal megacities globally, amplifying flood risks and damaging infrastructure. Taking Tianjin—a major port city underlain by compressible sediments and affected by groundwater over-exploitation...
The Jurassic reservoirs in the Fukang Sag of the Junggar Basin exhibit heterogeneous overpressure. As the mechanisms underlying overpressure generation remain poorly constrained, this poses challenges for accurate pre-drilling-pressure prediction and...
Accurate numerical simulation of debris flows is essential for hazard assessment and early-warning design, yet high-fidelity solvers remain computationally expensive, especially when large ensembles must be explored under epistemic uncertainty in rhe...
The age, provenance, and evolution of some terranes in the Klamath Mountains are poorly constrained because of low detrital zircon yields. We present petrography and 947 new detrital and igneous zircon U-Pb ages from the North Fork (NFT), Eastern Hay...
Pre-seismic anomalies in solid tidal factors can reveal crustal stress accumulation and predict seismic risk; such disturbance signals associated with earthquake incubation are extremely subtle and easily obscured by environmental noise, instrument e...
