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Glaciers Shape Landscapes
Glacial ice can flow. And flowing ice is a force that leaves clear traces in the landscape through various processes such as ablation and deposition....
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Groundwater quality assessment of northern Harrat Rahat Aquifer, Saudi Arabia
Basaltic aquifers represent one of the major groundwater resources in the Arabian Shield, which lies in the western part of the Kingdom of Saudi...
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Effect of Soil Parameters on Resilient Modulus Using Cyclic Tri-Axial Tests on Lateritic Subgrade Soils from Dakshina Kannada, India
Resilient modulus ( M r ) of a soil is used as a basic input in the analysis of sub-grade and sub-base in the mechanistic empirical design approaches....
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Assessment of bamboo leaf ash/lime-stabilized lateritic soils as construction materials
This paper evaluates the suitability of stabilized lateritic soils as highway and building (bricks) construction materials and the influence of...
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Stratigraphy of the Quaternary Deposits in Cuba
In Cuba, the existence of an important group of geological formations and innominate deposits of Quaternary age is recognized. They encompass both...
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Aquifer characterization and hydrogeological modeling for devising groundwater management strategies for the Chennai aquifer system, southern India
The Chennai aquifer system, which occupies an area of 6629 km 2 , is one of the most stressed aquifer systems in southern India and is under severe...
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Nitrate contamination in groundwater and its health risk assessment: a case study of Quanzhou, a typical coastal city in Southeast China
Nitrate contamination has become an ecological and health issue in Quanzhou, a typical coastal city in Southeast China. Hydrogeological surveys...
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Methodologies for the Assessment of River Ecosystem in Southern West Bengal, India
Southern eco-regions of the state West Bengal (Lat. 22.0°–23.3° N; Long. 86.0°–88.3°E), India, is a mosaic of different landscape types, endowed with...
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Supergene gold in silcrete as a vector to the Scuddles volcanic massive sulfides, Western Australia
This study reports data on the first occurrence of economic supergene Au in a near-surface silcrete horizon over the Scuddles volcanic massive...
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Assessment of groundwater quality using statistical methods: a case study
Human activities substantially contribute to the rise of various contaminating ionic levels in the water, which translates in a risk to humans,...
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AVI- and GOD-based vulnerability assessment of aquifer units: a case study of parts of Akwa Ibom State, Southern Niger Delta, Nigeria
Vulnerability assessment of aquifer units is vital in groundwater management and development. In this study, aquifer vulnerability was assessed via...
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Assessment of Trace Metal Pollution in Surface Sediments from Southwestern Part of Bay of Bengal, India
Twenty-nine shelf sediment samples have been collected from the Southwestern part of the Bay of Bengal in 5 transects lying offshore between the...
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Geological, geotechnical, and mechanical characterization of lateritic gravels from Eastern Cameroon for road construction purposes
Petrographic, mineralogical (X-ray diffraction), and chemical analyses performed on granite-derived lateritic gravels of the Ngankè–Bonis road...
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Hydrogeologic and hydraulic characterization of aquifer and nonaquifer layers in a lateritic terrain (West Bengal, India)
The hydrogeologic and hydraulic characteristics of a lateritic terrain in West Bengal, India, were investigated. Test drilling was conducted at ten...
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Natural sources of iron and manganese in groundwater of the lower Kelantan River Basin, North-eastern coast of Peninsula Malaysia: water quality assessment and an adsorption-based method for remediation
Shallow groundwater resources in the lower Kelantan River Basin show anomalously high concentrations of iron and manganese. In some cases, other...
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Types and Development of Transportation Infrastructure
The current chapter gave a complete overview of the transport system’s development and the foundational elements of its architecture since 10000 B.C....
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Petrogenetic relationships between peraluminous granites and Li- Cs-Ta rich pegmatites in south Issia zone (Central-West of Côte d’Ivoire): Petrography, Mineralogy, Geochemistry and zircon U–Pb Geochronology
The Issia batholith extends over 100 km in central Ivory Coast and is surrounded by important placer deposits of columbite-tantalite associated with...
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Study on the functionality of land use land cover over the evaluation of groundwater potential zone: A fuzzy AHP based approach
Identification of groundwater potential zone has become a prime concern for the develo** countries, where the dependency of groundwater is more,...
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Kappa model and Coda-Q for Eastern Chotanagpur Plateau region (India)
The Chotanagpur Plateau (CNP) forms an important part of the Indian Shield, has experienced moderate seismicity in the past. There are records of...
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Time-lapse electrical resistivity investigation of seawater intrusion in coastal aquifer of Ibeno, Southeastern Nigeria
Saltwater intrusion, erosion, and periodic flooding during severe storms are some of the critical problems bedeviling the precarious coastal...
