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Palaeobiogeographical Implications of Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene Microbiota from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of the Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India
The charophyte assemblages of the Jhilmili and Ghat Parasia area in Central India exhibit strong relationships or affinities with Late Cretaceous...
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Map** groundwater dynamics in Iraq: integrating multi-data sources for comprehensive analysis
Iraq is known for its dry climate, often ranging from arid to semi-arid, and has a long history of struggling with water scarcity. Therefore, the...
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Facies distribution and paleogeography of the Oligocene–Miocene succession in southwestern Iran
Facies analysis and paleogeographical reconstruction of the Asmari Formation in the Lorestan and Dezful Embayment Zones are documented by studying...
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Gas fields and large shallow seismogenic reverse faults are anticorrelated
We investigated the spatial relationships among 18 known seismogenic faults and 1651 wells drilled for gas exploitation in the main hydrocarbon...
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Break to Rebuild — the First European Evidence of a Fragmented Chaine Opératoire for Handaxe Production (OIS 14, Caune de l’Arago, France)
The presence of bifacial tools for more than 1.5 Ma in African and Eurasian archaeological assemblages raises questions as to why this was so...
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The early Cenomanian crippsi Event at Lüneburg (Germany): palaeontological and stratigraphical significance of a widespread Late Cretaceous bioevent
The early Cenomanian crippsi Event comprises a 1–3-m-thick interval characterised by mass occurrences of the early Cenomanian inoceramid Gnesioceramus...
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Introduction: The Conversion of the Mediterranean into a World Centre, Its Crises and the Formation of the Late Mediaeval Commercial Empires
Since prehistory, men and innovationsinnovations had flowed from East to West for centuries along the Mediterranean and had transformed its economies...
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The Bottleneck of Reform: China’s Oil Policy in the 1980s
Oil was a crucial factor in China’s relationship with the world during the Reform Era. This chapter analyzes Bei**g’s oil policy under Deng **...
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Controls on the facies and architecture evolution of a fan delta in Qinghai Lake, China
Deltaic sedimentary systems form the most favorable hydrocarbon reservoirs in continental faulted lacustrine basins, and their types and controlling...
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A Critical Evaluation of the Role of Geotectonics in Groundwater Arsenic Contamination
It has been observed globally that primary groundwater arsenic (As) is derived from modern and ancient magmatic arcs at continental convergent...
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The Territorial Diffusion of the Gas Industry in Latin Europe Before the Competition from Electricity
This chapter analyses, from an international comparative perspective, the territorial expansion of the first public utility, namely, gas, at its...
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The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks
Karl Mayer (later Karl Mayer-Eymar, 1826–1906) was a stratigrapher and palaeontologist who assembled during his long career a collection of Cenozoic...
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The United Nations Role in the G5-Sahel, West, and Southern Africa: The Case of Angola
International powerful actors, however, have used the platform of regional instability to pursue economic growth through strong economic growth...
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The Bishop and the Abbot: Inventing the Cult
This chapter first focuses on the takeover of the lordship of Glanfeuil in the 830s by Ebroin, bishop of Poitiers and a relative of Count Rorigo....
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Groundwater in sedimentary basins as potential lithium resource: a global prospective study
Electric cars will require to increase the production of lithium dramatically (up to 2 Mtons lithium equivalent carbonate per year by 2030). However,...
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Continental Processes and Sediments on the Coast
The composition of the materials deposited on the coast depends on the clarity of the waters, the amount of suspended matter and the distribution of...
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Multicriteria Decision Aiding for a Shift Towards Best Environmental Practices in Agriculture, with a Focus on Viticulture
Intensive agriculture has led to a significant increase in agricultural production in last decades, but using a lot of chemical inputs (fertilisers,...
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Climate Issues in France: The Metropolis Against the State?
Faced with melting glaciers, retreating coastlines, rising global sea levels, eroding biodiversity and deteriorating air quality, citizens around the...
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Warmer springs favour early germination of range-wide Quercus suber L. populations
Climate change is favouring the northward shift of Mediterranean oaks which are expanding their ranges at their leading edges. However, Mediterranean...
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Pressure Transient Characteristics of Highly Deviated Wells in Fractured-Vuggy Carbonate Gas Reservoirs
More and more attention has been paid to the study of flow properties in fractured-vuggy reservoirs because lots of such reservoirs have been found...