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Mechanical Behaviour of Lump-Grout Backfill Material for Underground Spaces
Large-size lump (e.g., coal reject or waste rocks) is one of the most popular backfill materials for underground mines attributed to its...
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Understanding the provenance and production process of historic mortars—a novel approach employing calcareous nannofossils
Limestones (CaCO 3 ) have been an important source for masonry and mortars throughout approx. 10,000 years of human history. They are often composed of...
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Failure Mechanisms of Shear Zones in an Undisturbed Residual Soil by SEM Image Analysis
The mechanisms of soil failure on a microscopic scale are still not fully understood. Many soil behaviour models characterize a soil failure at the...
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Microstructural and compositional variations of allanite in hydrothermal veins: Implications for REE mobilization in Chhotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex, Purulia district, West Bengal, India
AbstractThis study employs a combination of texture and composition of allanite to investigate the chemical evolution of rare earth elements (REEs)...
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New evidence on Iron Age bronze metallurgy in southwestern Iberian Peninsula: ingots and artefacts from Cabeço Redondo (Portugal)
Archaeological works at Cabeço Redondo (southern Portugal), located in the Guadiana River basin, identified the remains of a monumental building with...
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Assessment of lumped particles effect on dynamic behaviour of fine and medium grained sands
One novel aspect addressed here is the effect of the lumped particle on the dynamic behaviour of cohesionless soil. The effects of particle size and...
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Erosion of soil around damaged buried water pipes—a critical review
Damage or deterioration of water distribution or storm water drain pipeline systems create a problem of leakage, which has the potential to erode its...
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The pavement layers of the Southwest Church of Umm el-Jimal, Jordan: stratigraphy and archaeometric characterization
The article focuses on the stratigraphy of the late Byzantine pavement of the Southwest Church, Umm el-Jimal, Jordan and the production technology of...
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Limekiln services soil enrichment and water retention of an Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm groundwater-harvesting agroecosystem in coastal dunes near Caesarea, Israel
Limekilns, common throughout the southern Levant in carbonate rock highlands, were rare in aeolian sand terrains. This study presents for the first...
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Suggesting new protocol to determine point load strength index of rocks
The point load test is widely used as an index test for determining the rock material strength and classification. The test provides an overall...
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Weathering effects on granitic rocks in North Pakistan: petrographic insights, strength classifications, and construction suitability
In this study, rock samples from various tectonic domains of North Pakistan are assessed in terms of their physical, mechanical, and petrographic...
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Landslide tsunamis: exploring momentum transfer to waves generated by a range of materials with different mobility impacting water
At impact with water, the velocity and thickness of a landslide are the key factors that govern momentum transfer and wave generation. These...
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On the security of graphite supply
In order to achieve the ambitious goals vital to successfully combat global warming, new methods for the generation, storage and transport of...
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Paleoenvironmental Dynamics in a Mesoproterozoic Epicontinental Sea, Faded Shale, Son Valley, India
This paper aims to gain insight about paleoenvironmental dynamics in a Mesoproterozoic basin through a narrow window of the faded shale (FS)...
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Smelting copper in decorated pottery: communities of practice in the Niari Basin, Republic of the Congo, fifteenth–seventeenth centuries CE
This paper considers copper production in the Niari Basin, Republic of the Congo, during a period dated to the mid-fifteenth–mid-seventeenth...
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Microbial origin of micrites in ooids: evidence from the Cambrian in North China
Ooids are common and important type of carbonate rock grain, and although they have a long development history, their origin has not been determined....
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Seasonal Dynamics of Vertical Fluxes of Phytoplankton, Tintinnids, and Stinging Cells of Coelenterates in the Kara Sea
AbstractThe research was done on the basis of monthly samples collected by sediment trap exposed over the outer shelf of the Kara Sea from September...
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Slaking and disintegration behavior of mudstone: insights from laboratory experiment and orthogonal images
The mudstone is undergoing great change and disintegration in cyclic wetting–drying due to the weak durability, and the change is expected to cause...
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Lithofacies Paleogeography and Sedimentary Evolution
In the research of carbonate lithofacies paleogeography, the method with single-factor analysis and multi-factor graphs is used. During the study,...
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Simulation study of rockfall deposition based on UAV-PCAS-PFC: a case study on the rockfall deposition of **aomaopo in Kaiyang County
This study developed a rockfall simulation method based on the actual rock block accumulation size. The terrain data and orthophoto map were obtained...
