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Geosciences, Volume 8, Issue 6

June 2018 - 37 articles

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Cover Story: Shrubby microbial structures known as dendrolites are common in the rock record but rare in modern environments. This paper describes living dendrolites that were recently discovered in low energy intertidal settings in Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay. Thick filaments of Lyngbya aestuarii form the “trunks” of the dendrolitic shrubs, with finer filaments of Lyngbya fragilis, Phormidium sp., and Schizothrix sp. forming the “branches.” These modern structures provide insight into our understanding of dendrolite formation throughout the rock record. View Paper here.

Articles (37)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,531 Views
28 Pages

A Numerical 1.5D Method for the Rapid Simulation of Geophysical Resistivity Measurements

  • Mostafa Shahriari,
  • Sergio Rojas,
  • David Pardo,
  • Angel Rodríguez-Rozas,
  • Shaaban A. Bakr,
  • Victor M. Calo and
  • Ignacio Muga

In some geological formations, borehole resistivity measurements can be simulated using a sequence of 1D models. By considering a 1D layered media, we can reduce the dimensionality of the problem from 3D to 1.5D via a Hankel transform. The resulting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
15,784 Views
20 Pages

The Netherlands has just finished implementing the Room for the Rivers program along the Rhine and Meuse Rivers in response to increasing river discharges. Recently, making more room for the river is, however, being challenged for future application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,966 Views
19 Pages

The lakes across China’s middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River system have a long history of sustaining human pressures. These aquatic resources have been exploited for fisheries and irrigation over millennia at a magnitude of scales, w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,290 Views
22 Pages

Extending INSPIRE to the Internet of Things through SensorThings API

  • Alexander Kotsev,
  • Katharina Schleidt,
  • Steve Liang,
  • Hylke Van der Schaaf,
  • Tania Khalafbeigi,
  • Sylvain Grellet,
  • Michael Lutz,
  • Simon Jirka and
  • Mickaël Beaufils

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) established during the past two decades “unlocked” heterogeneous geospatial datasets. The European Union INSPIRE Directive laid down the foundation of a pan-European SDI where thousands of public sector...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,640 Views
28 Pages

Sensitivity analysis (SA) describes how varying inputs to a model subsequently varies its outputs. Its inclusion can support the systematic calibration of numerical models to back-calculate intensity properties of past torrent events that would other...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,727 Views
16 Pages

Regional Landslide Potential Mapping in Earthquake-Prone Areas of Kepahiang Regency, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia

  • Arif Ismul Hadi,
  • Kirbani Sri Brotopuspito,
  • Subagyo Pramumijoyo and
  • Hary Christady Hardiyatmo

Kepahiang regency is an area above the Musi segment of the Sumatran fault system. This condition makes the study area prone to natural disasters such as landslides in the slope area caused by earthquakes due to tectonic plate movement. The objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,186 Views
14 Pages

Clay mineralogy is an important characteristic of mud volcano sediments. This study determined the clay mineral compositions of sediment from two submarine mud volcanoes in the Kumano forearc basin, Nankai Trough, by X-ray diffraction analysis. Simil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,567 Views
33 Pages

Hybrid GMPEs for Region-Specific PSHA in Southern Italy

  • Maria D’Amico,
  • Giovanni Lanzano,
  • Marco Santulin,
  • Rodolfo Puglia,
  • Chiara Felicetta,
  • Mara Monica Tiberti,
  • Antonio Augusto Gomez-Capera and
  • Emiliano Russo

This paper describes the main findings of the project HYPSTHER (HYbrid ground motion prediction equations for PSha purposes: the study case of souTHERn Italy; supported by the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology). The goal of the project...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,423 Views
24 Pages

Joint and Lineament Patterns across the Midcontinent Indicate Repeated Reactivation of Basement-Involved Faults

  • Caroline M. Burberry,
  • Jerlyn L. Swiatlowski,
  • Mindi L. Searls and
  • Irina Filina

Joint networks hosted in successively younger rocks, developing as a result of forced (trishear) folding of a rock mass above a deep-seated fault, can be used to infer the reactivation history of that deep-seated fault. This study aims to use joint n...

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