You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

Geosciences, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2013 - 6 articles

  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (6)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,902 Views
12 Pages

Verde Macael: A Serpentinite Wrongly Referred to as a Marble

  • Rafael Navarro,
  • Dolores Pereira,
  • Ana Gimeno and
  • Santiago Del Barrio

5 February 2013

Serpentinites are used in both exterior and interior locations, but not all serpentinites are equal: they vary in physical-mechanical behavior and are not all suitable for similar uses. The serpentinites most commonly used worldwide come from India,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,585 Views
26 Pages

5 February 2013

The Quaternary mammals of Sicily are well known, and five faunal complexes have been distinguished on the basis of bioevents (extinctions and new arrivals) and evolution of endemic species. It is clear that the composition of mammal faunas is strictl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
17,409 Views
39 Pages

25 January 2013

Materials that store the energy of warm days, to return that heat during cool nights, have been fundamental to vernacular building since ancient times. Although building with thermally rechargeable materials became a niche pursuit with the advent of...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,719 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2013

Modern sustainable architecture indicates the use of local natural stones for building. Greek sandstones from Epirus (Demati, Greece, EN 12440) used as building facades meet aesthetic and have high mechanical properties, but the inevitable interactio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,643 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2013

Presented herein is a cartographic procedure that is easy to utilise and at low-cost, which facilitates the first stages of planning and management of a naturally protected space and considers the geotechnical parameters that influence human activity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,414 Views
29 Pages

Nacre in Molluscs from the Ordovician of the Midwestern United States

  • Michael J. Vendrasco,
  • Antonio Checa,
  • William P. Heimbrock and
  • Steven D.J. Baumann

Nacre was previously thought to be primitive in the Mollusca, but no convincing Cambrian examples are known. This aragonitic microstructure with crystal tablets that grow within an organic framework is thought to be the strongest, most fracture-resis...

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Geosciences - ISSN 2076-3263