Geosciences, Volume 14, Issue 10

Landslides pose a significant threat worldwide, leading to numerous fatalities and severe economic losses. The city of Manizales, located in the Colombian Andes, is particularly vulnerable due to its steep topography and permeable volcanic ash-derive...

Possible deterioration of a rock’s structure and mechanical properties due to chemical reactions between the host rock, formation water, and CO₂ requires due attention. In this study, cylindrical sandstone specimens obtained from the Hanna Form...

The southeastern coastal regions of China are characterized by typical hilly terrain with abundant rainfall throughout the year, leading to frequent geological hazards. To investigate the measurement accuracy of surface deformation and the effectiven...

It is hypothesized that the present tectonic setting of the Anatolian, Aegean and Balkan regions has been deeply influenced by the different deformation styles of the inner and outer belts which constituted the Oligocene Tethyan system. Stressed by t...

Identifying locations of landslide slip surfaces provides critical information for understanding the volume of landslides and the scale of disasters, both of which are essential for formulating disaster preparedness and mitigation strategies. Based o...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most controversial tools of recent times. Offering an extremely simple operating system, users can generate texts, images, videos and even human voices. The possibility of using such a powerful tool...

Rainfall-induced shallow slope instability is a significant global hazard, often triggered by water infiltration that affects soil stability and involves dynamic changes in the hydraulic behavior of unsaturated soils. This study employs a hydro-mecha...

The water retention capacity of porous materials is crucial in various geotechnical and environmental engineering applications such as slope stability analysis, landfill management, and mining operations. Filtered tailings stacks are considered an al...

The evaluation of landslide hazards in seismic areas is based on a deterministic analysis, which is unable to account for various uncertainties in the analysis process. This paper focuses on the probabilistic local seismic hazard analysis and extends...

Earthquake forecasting is arguably one of the most challenging tasks in Earth sciences owing to the high complexity of the earthquake process. Over the past 40 years, there has been a plethora of work on finding credible, consistent and accurate eart...

High-pressure air injection (HPAI) is an enhanced oil recovery process in which compressed air is injected into deep, light oil reservoirs, with the expectation that the oxygen in the injected air will react with a fraction of the reservoir oil at an...

Anthropogenic global challenges and environmental pressures are increasingly significant. Developing pro-environmental behavior and geoethics is crucial for enhancing awareness, action capability, and respect for natural systems. UNESCO Global Geopar...

Reservoir quality prediction in deeply buried reservoirs represents a complex challenge to geoscientists. In sandstones, reservoir quality is determined by the extent of compaction and cementation during burial. During compaction, porosity is lost th...

The Kribi-Campo sub-basin, located in the Gulf of Guinea, constitutes the southeastern segment of the Cameroon Atlantic Margin. Drilling in the Aptian salt unit revealed a sparse hydrocarbon presence, contrasting with modest finds in its counterparts...

This study investigates public interest in geological disasters by analyzing Google Trends data from 2023. This research focuses on earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and tsunamis to understand how search behaviors reflect public awareness a...

This study conducts a morphodynamic analysis of beaches located in the northern sector of the Gulf of Roses (NW Mediterranean, Spain). The primary objective is to investigate mid-short (2004–2020) term spatial and temporal variations in shoreli...

The mechanical behaviour of soils subjected to any stress path in which deviatoric stresses are present is heavily characterised by non-linearity, irreversibility and is strongly dependent on the initial state of stress. The latter, for the majority...

This study is focused on one of the most active features of the Hellenic Volcanic Arc Southern Aegean Sea, the Santorini Island Volcanic Complex (SVC). The recent volcano-tectonic crisis in the intracalderic area has emerged the need for closer monit...

The Storegga slide tsunami (SST) at ca. 8100 ± 100–250 cal BP is known to be the largest tsunami that affected the North Sea during the entire Holocene. Geological traces of tsunami landfall were discovered along the coasts of Norway, Sc...

A reinforced earth wall is a structure in which reinforcement materials are placed in an embankment to build a vertical or nearly vertical wall surface. Such walls have been widely used in roads and in developed land since around 1960. Reinforcement...

This study presents an updated interpretation of geological data collected between 1984 and 2022. The area under consideration holds significant regional importance as it is located between the Internal Nappe Zone (INZ) and the Regional Mylonitic Com...

In this study, the geomorphological evolution of an inner flank of the Cratère Dolomieu at Piton de La Fournaise/La Réunion was investigated with the help of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data, terrestrial photogrammetric images, and...

The structural evolution of Andean-type orogens is strongly influenced by the geometry of the subducting slab. This study focuses on the flat-slab subduction of the Nazca Ridge and its effects on the South American Plate. The process of flat slab sub...

The main purpose of this study is the subsurface investigation of two complex geological environments focusing on the improvement of data acquisition and processing parameters regarding electric and seismic tomographic techniques. Two different study...

The Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) was applied to four portions of Acadia National Park, USA, focusing on intertidal rocky and tidal flat habitats. Side-scan sonar coupled with multi-phase echo sounder bathymetry are th...

Facing global warming’s consequences is a major issue in the present times. Regarding the climate, projections say that heavy rainfalls are going to increase with high probability together with temperature rise; thus, the hazard related to rain...

Detrital zircons from two samples of metasandstones from the Lykhmanivka Syncline, Middle Dnieper Domain of the Ukrainian Shield (Skelevate Formation of the Kryvyi Rih Group), have been dated by the LA-ICP-MS U-Pb method. Metasandstones from the nort...

This review paper addresses the recent and past advancements in investigating the anisotropic behavior of foliated metamorphic rock strength subjected to uniaxial or triaxial compression loading, direct or indirect tensile loading, and shear loading....

New data obtained from core samples of two boreholes and dredged samples from the Alba Guyot in the Magellan Seamount Trail (MST), Western Pacific, including the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age determinations of basanite, and the mineralogy of basanite, tuff, tuffite,...

The low-frequency sea level variability in the South China Sea (SCS) is examined using high-resolution regional ocean model simulations that span the last six decades. The analysis reveals interdecadal oscillations with a periodicity of 12–13 y...

Real-time drilling analysis requires knowledge of lithology at the drill bit. However, logging-while-drilling (LWD) sensors in the bottom hole assembly (BHA) are usually positioned 2–50 m (7–164 ft) above the bit (called the sensor offset...

Territorial inventories of geosites remain on the international agenda, and they can help in acquiring information for solving pure geological research tasks. New field investigations in the northern part of Mountainous Adygeya (geoheritage-rich terr...