Trilobites
What are trilobites? Trilobites are a fossil group of extinct marine arthropods with a heavily calcified external skeleton that populated the oceans from about 520 million years ago to about … Read More
Tag: geology
Characterisation of karst hydrogeology in Western Ireland using geophysical and hydraulic modelling techniques
Introduction Methods of hydrogeological investigation for karst catchments have long been established. Traditional techniques include tracers (Baedke and Krothe, 2000, Goldscheider et al., 2008), spring hydrograph analysis (Fiorillo, 2009) and … Read More
Post-seismic relaxation from geodetic and seismic data
Introduction The physics of the earthquake and post-shock process remains vague. The nature of changes occurring in the rocks on the threshold of a large earthquake, in the main shock … Read More
The giant Jiaodong gold province: The key to a unified model for orogenic gold deposits?
Introduction Groves et al. (1998), following Gebre-Mariam et al. (1995), defined the term orogenic gold deposit to obviate the necessity to refer to a wide variety of terms for a … Read More
Mapping interactions between geology, subsurface resource exploitation and urban development in transforming cities using InSAR Persistent Scatterers: Two decades of change in Florence, Italy
Introduction Cities are vital anthropogenic settings changing in time in response to the needs of the living communities, and their use of the local natural environment and resources. Processes involved … Read More
An integrated multiscale approach for characterization of rock masses subjected to tunnel excavation
Introduction An in-depth knowledge of the geological aspects of the area in which a tunnel will be excavated is fundamental for optimizing the layout. In fact, costs, duration of the … Read More
Human-induced landslide on a high cut slope: a case of repeated failures due to multi-excavation
Introduction Human activity has been recognized as an important triggering factor that leads to many landslides (Turner and Schuster, 1996, Huang and Chan, 2004, Erginal et al., 2008, Ayalew et … Read More
Rockburst management in Canadian hard rock mines
Introduction Rockburst, the sudden violent failure of rock, has been a significant hazard in hard rock mining for many decades. Andrieux et al. (2013) provided a series of rockburst case … Read More
Design adaptations in a large and deep urban excavation: Case study
Introduction Due to the rapid population growth in urban areas, deep and large underground excavations have been increased in the world. In many countries such as China (Tan and Wang, … Read More
Design and operation problems related to water curtain system for underground water-sealed oil storage caverns
Introduction China has become the largest net importer of petroleum in the world from October 2012 onward, followed by the USA. Establishing national strategic energy reserve storage is critically important. … Read More