An accurate estimation of vegetation carbon pools and their carbon sequestration potential is significant in global carbon cycle research but the existing estimations are still insufficient and largely uncertain. Here, we estimated the vegetation car...
Coal is one of the important energy sources for industry. When it is mined, it will cause the destruction of bedrock and surface. However, it is more severe in mining shallow-buried multi coal seams (SBMCS). To better reveal the characteristics of th...
Accurate, high-resolution maps of bedrock outcrops can be valuable for applications such as models of land–atmosphere interactions, mineral assessments, ecosystem mapping, and hazard mapping. The increasing availability of high-resolution image...
In this paper, the mechanical characteristics of stabilizing piles embedded in layered bedrocks are studied both experimentally and numerically. The influence of soft and hard interbedded layers in the structure of the bedrock on the mechanical chara...
River courses are rarely straight. Rather, they tend to be meandering. Incision meandering is one of the most common types of meandering discussed in river engineering. The availability of abrasive tools, coverage thickness, appropriate flow velocity...
High-speed water flow conditions can cause erosion of the bedrock in engineering areas. Due to the lack of accurate evaluation of bedrock scour and erosion rates, there has been a consumption of manpower and resources without achieving satisfactory e...
Cd (cadmium) has been categorized as a crucial food pollutant by the World Health Organization. Research regarding Cd pollution mainly centers on the source of anthropogenic pollution. Nevertheless, there is scarce knowledge concerning the natural we...
The effective characterization of landscape water balance components—evapotranspiration, runoff, recharge, and soil storage—is critical for understanding the integrated effects of the water balance on vegetation dynamics, water availabili...
Bedrock channel evolution is shaped by the combined effects of mechanical incision and weathering processes that operate under seasonal variability. This study employs numerical simulations to examine how bedload-impact abrasion and freeze–thaw...
To effectively predict the water richness of weathered bedrock aquifers, the West First Plate area of the Hongliulin coal mine was taken as the study area, and 42 sets of pumping test borehole data from the weathered bedrock in the study area were us...
This paper describes the relationship between bedrock depth (D) and site fundamental frequency (f0) in the Nakdonggang delta region in the southeastern part of the Korean peninsula. We collected borehole logs to confirm the thickness of the sediments...
The variation in roof structure induced by changes in bedrock thickness exerts a direct influence on the stress distribution within lower strata, consequently governing the stability of roadway surrounding rock. To investigate the impact of bedrock t...
The deep bedrock surroundings are an analog for extraterrestrial habitats for life. In this study, we investigated microbial life within anoxic ultradeep boreholes in Precambrian bedrock, including the adaptation to environmental conditions and lifes...
The 300 m-level high arch dams built in China have different degrees of valley-narrowing deformation in the initial impoundment. This unexpected phenomenon may increase the long-term safety risk of high arch dams. There are several explanations for t...
Bedrock topography is known to affect subsurface water flow and thus the spatial distribution of pore water pressure, which is a key factor for determining slope stability. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of bedrock topo...
For the thick alluvium and thin bedrock coal seam mining in East China, it is easy to produce water by pressing the frame. Taking the engineering geological conditions of the thin bedrock coal seam 1611 (3) working face in the Zhangji Coal Mine of Hu...
Pile composite foundations (PCFs) have been commonly applied in reinforcement engineering to adjust the vertical stiffness of foundations, due to the displacement control design criteria for foundations. PCFs that have dissimilar pile lengths, locate...
The weathered bedrock aquifer in the Jurassic coalfield of northern Shaanxi Province is a direct water-bearing aquifer, and accurately predicting its water-bearing properties is essential for preventing and controlling water hazards in mining operati...
The estimation of seismic shaking is essential for a realistic assessment of the local seismic hazard and the implementation of effective strategies for prevention and mitigation of the seismic risk. One of the most important aspects in the analysis...
Global warming is expected to enhance the severity and frequency of drought in subtropical areas; thus, understanding how vegetation growth responds to precipitation is crucial to comprehending the impact of these changes on ecosystem services, such...
Bedrock fault dislocation is a crucial structural factor influencing landslide movement. Accurately predicting the location and scale of rupture zones within a slope body is essential for effective slope construction design and risk mitigation. Based...
In marked contrast to alluvial rivers, few studies have examined the physical and geochemical controls on the spatial distribution of toxic trace metals along bedrock channels. This study examined the factors controlling the geographical pattern of s...
The deformation and failure mechanisms of historical landslides, characterized with different types of bedrock surface shapes which are known to have been induced by rainfall and reservoir water fluctuations, is an important issue currently being add...
By combining model testing and numerical simulation, this paper focuses on the influence of landslides on tunnels in loess-bedrock strata by using the perfect landslide–tunnel system (LTS). A mechanical test and simulation (MTS) system was used...
To investigate the influence of bedrock fragmentation by intensive tillage on the hydrological characteristics and soil erosion processes on slopes, two experimental treatments (soil–bedrock mixtures, WB, and pure soil, CK) in steel tanks were...
Aiming to better understand the fracture evolution characteristics of thin bedrock affected by mining, a program was developed to establish a numerical calculation model for the fracture evolution of the overlying rock in the stope under the coupled...
This study focused on characterising aquifer systems based on water-level changes observed systematically at 159 paired groundwater monitoring wells throughout Korea. Using spectral analysis, principal component analysis (PCA), and cross-correlation...
A study approach is developed to assess the longitudinal channel slope under the equilibrium condition as well as the transient evolution of a mixed alluvial-soft-bedrock stream. Both the historical field data and 2D mobile-bed numerical modeling are...
The surface discontinuous deformation caused by coal mining has great damage to the ecological environment and threatens the safety of human lives. Focusing on the problem of discontinuous deformation (ground fissures and collapsed pits) in mining ar...
A multidisciplinary approach was employed to construct a three-dimensional model of the bedrock top surface within the Palermo Plain, Sicily, Italy. This urban area is characterized by a dense and extensive built environment that largely obscures its...
The shear band is a prominent feature within the Banbiyan hazardous rock mass located in the Wushan section of the Three Gorges Reservoir area. This band constitutes a latent risk, as the potential for the rock mass to slide along the region threaten...
Bedrock rivers, whose sedimentary geochemistry has been scarcely investigated, are suitable to test geochemical approaches in order to assess the existence and extent of human alterations in the natural abundance of rare earth elements. This work pre...
In this study, the seismic response of the buried structure of a nuclear power plant (NPP) located on a non-bedrock site is investigated using a three-dimensional finite element model incorporating soil–structure interaction (SSI). Three distin...
When a drought occurs, drought response is mainly focused on the development of new wells. However, it is inefficient to respond to droughts by developing additional new wells in areas where many existing groundwater wells have been developed. Rather...
Karst rocky desertification (KRD) has become the primary ecoenvironmental problem in the karst regions of southwest China. The rapid and efficient acquisition of exposed bedrock fractions (EBF) is crucial for the monitoring and assessment of KRD degr...
The extraction of thin bedrock coal seams with thick alluvium poses a challenging issue in the realm of coal safety production in China. Especially for mining under aquifers, knowing the development height of water-conducting fracture zones above the...
Regolith, or unconsolidated materials overlying bedrock, exists as an active zone for many geological, geomorphological, hydrological and ecological processes. This zone and its processes are foundational to wide-ranging human needs and activities su...
As a result of the severe natural environment with oxygen deficit in the Antarctic, using conventional manual work to screw and unscrew the drill pipe increases the labor intensity tremendously and causes an efficiency reduction. Therefore, it would...
In order to ascertain the concealed bedrock and its spatial distribution in an urban low-resistance coverage area of a typical lacustrine basin in Hunan Province, a multi-method comprehensive experimental study was carried out in Dingcheng District,...
Significant risk of water and sand inrushes is commonly encountered during coal seam mining when thin bedrock is directly overlain by thick, water-bearing, unconsolidated layers. Achieving effective strata control and establishing reliable water-isol...
When mining deep coal seams with thin bedrock and thick alluvium, the collapse and fracture of thin bedrock layers may cause geological disasters, such as water inrush and sand inrush of the mining face. Comprehensively obtaining the response data of...
Accurately mapping surface freshwater bodies (e.g., ponds, reservoirs, and small lakes) is vital for managing insular ecosystems and communities. However, satellite-based extraction in coastal settings is challenged by seawater intrusion, complex top...
With the rapid development of the economy in China, the scale and quantity of urban underground space development continue to grow rapidly; as such, geological safety problems in urban underground space development and utilization are a research hots...
The hydrogeochemical properties of bottled waters (n = 37) were examined to evaluate the factors governing their quality and to suggest the natural background levels (NBLs) of groundwater. The bottled waters were sourced from bedrock aquifers of vari...
Due to the long-term coupling effect of a train load and groundwater, the surrounding rock at the tunnel bottom will soften in a certain range and the mechanical parameters of the surrounding rock will decrease, causing the uneven distribution of the...
The clear and detailed images of geological structures that can be obtained by seismic methods are one of the main drivers of their popularity in geological research. The quality of final geophysical images and models relies strongly on the amount of...
The overburden movement of the large mining height working face of shallow buried thin bedrock (SBTB) is a complex engineering problem with “time-space-intension”, which is of great significance to realize efficient and safe mining in the...
The advancement of remote sensing has enabled the creation of high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). Topographic features such as slope gradient (SG), local convexity (LC), and surface texture (ST), derived from DEMs, are related to subsurf...
Validation and scaling of sophisticated physical and numerical fluvial hydraulic models to real field conditions are limited by temporal and spatial constraints of field measurement technologies. These limitations increase when analyzing hydraulic pr...
The Sencelles Fault constitutes the main extensional structure of Mallorca Island (Spain), holds a NE-SE orientation, and has been identified as the possible seismic source of the 1851 CE Palma earthquake (VII EMS.) The SE termination of the fault (S...
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