Radionuclide Transport Simulations Supporting Proposed Borehole Waste Disposal in Israel by Katherine Carol Swager, Suzanne Michelle Bourret, Gilles Y. Bussod, Noa Balaban, Hakim Boukhalfa, Ran Calvo, Ofra Klein-BenDavid, Dolan Lucero, Itay J. Reznik, Ravid Rosenzweig, Philip H. Stauffer

“…The Negev Desert has several favorable attributes for geologic disposal, including an arid climate, a deep vadose zone, interlayered low-permeability lithologies, and carbonate rocks with high uranium-sorption potential. These features may provide a robust natural barrier to radionuclide migration. …”
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The northern Qiangtang Block rapid drift during the Triassic Period: Paleomagnetic evidence by Yanan Zhou, Xin Cheng, Yiying Wu, Vadim Kravchinsky, Ruiqi Shao, Weijie Zhang, Bitian Wei, Ruiyao Zhang, Fanrong Lu, Hanning Wu

“…Thus, for this study, we collected 226 samples (17 sites) from Triassic sedimentary rocks in the Raggyorcaka and Tuotuohe areas of the northern Qiangtang Block (NQB). …”
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Enrichment and Temporal Trends of Groundwater Salinity in Central Mexico by Claudia Patricia Colmenero-Chacón, Heriberto Morales-deAvila, Mélida Gutiérrez, Maria Vicenta Esteller-Alberich, Maria Teresa Alarcón-Herrera

“…The results showed that human activities (agriculture) and dissolution of carbonate and evaporite rocks were major sources of salinity, and evaporation an enriching factor. …”
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Mineralogy and Geochemistry of High-Sulfur Coals from the M8 Coal Seam, Shihao Mine, Songzao Coalfield, Chongqing, Southwestern China by Qingfeng Lu, Shenjun Qin, Wenfeng Wang, Shihao Wu, Fengjun Shao

“…The terrigenous clastics of the Shihao M8 coals originated from the felsic–intermediate rocks atop the Emeishan Large Igneous Provinces (ELIP) (Kangdian Upland), while the roof and floor samples were derived from Emeishan high-Ti basalt. …”
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Insights on the Permian tuff beds from the Saint-Affrique Basin (Massif Central, France): an integrated geochemical and geochronological study by Poujol, Marc, Mercuzot, Mathilde, Lopez, Michel, Bourquin, Sylvie, Bruguier, Olivier, Hallot, Erwan, Beccaletto, Laurent

“…It highlights the existence of two different groups of felsic volcaniclastic rocks. The first group, located at the base of the basin and attributed to the Stephanian continental stage, is related to a late-orogenic volcanic setting and corresponds to calc-alkaline trachy-andesitic tuffites that could not be dated due to the lack of volcanic zircon. …”
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Petrogenesis of the microcrystalline-dioritic enclaves from Jiuling granitoids in the eastern segment of Jiangnan Orogen and constraints on magma source materials by Zheng Duan, Guang-fu Xing, Sheng-bing Liao, Ping-li Chu, Wen-cheng Huang, Yan-hui Zhu, Xu-jie Shu, Chang-bo Li

“…The microcrystalline-dioritic enclaves commonly show plastic forms and contain similar plagioclase megacrysts to the host rocks, and both of the enclaves and host granitoids showed a complex composition and structural imbalance in plagioclases. …”
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Assessing Precipitation Redistribution and Hydro-Chemical Dynamics in a High-Elevation Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forest by Shiyu Dai, Nawatbhrist Kitudom, Xue Miao, Hailong Ge, Li Zheng, Hede Gong

“…Quality of surface water was affected by the weathering of rocks, resulting in a lower pH than that of atmospheric precipitation. …”
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Geochemical Characterization of Groundwater in the Confined and Unconfined Aquifers of the Northern Italy by Cristina Orecchia, Beatrice M. S. Giambastiani, Nicolas Greggio, Bruno Campo, Enrico Dinelli

“…Along the Adriatic coast, Na-Cl water confirmed saltwater intrusion phenomena. Landward, evaporitic rocks dissolution, and the upconing of relict marine water explained high EC, Na⁺, K⁺, Cl⁻, and SO₄²⁻ concentrations. …”
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Structure of the crustal magmatic system in the Geysers-Clear Lake area (Northern California) imaged by adjoint-state travel-time tomography by Qi, Yingyu, Tong, Ping

“…Our tomographic results suggest a simplified three-layer magmatic model beneath the CLVF: the upper layer (< 7 km) consists of some intrusions of silicic magma from beneath Mount Hannah to the Geysers Geothermal Field in the southwest and to the Wilbur Springs area east of Clear Lake; the median layer includes the main body of the magma chamber at 5-13 km in depth and in the shape of an oblate ellipsoid; and the lower layer includes some mafic intrusions and molten or partially molten volcanic rocks from the upwelling mantle. The detailed velocity heterogeneities revealed by the newly picked travel-time data with the adjoint-state travel-time tomography method provide necessary constraints on seismogenic, volcanic, and geothermal processes in the Geysers-Clear Lake area, which are also useful for the mitigation of geologic hazards in northern California.…”
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Relationship between water quality & black flies (Diptera: simuliidae) abundance in Tambunan district, Sabah by Nur Ashiqin Abdul Hamid, Maria Lourdes T. Lardizabal, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Estherpeni Stephen, Maznah Mahali

“…Samples of black flies’ larvae and pupae were manually collected from substrates consisting of grasses, plant roots and plastics which were found stuck in between the rocks with running water area. Water quality parameters that were measured during every sampling, include water temperature, velocity, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity and total dissolve solids (TDS). …”
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The Strength of Soft Clay Reinforced with Singular and Group Bottom Ash Column by Muzamir, Hasan, Aminaton, Marto, Hyodo, Masayuki, Ahmad Mahir, Makhtar

“…Stone column is a ground improvement technique in which some of the soil is being replaced with granular material such as crushed rocks or sand. Stone columns are usually installed in soft cohesive soil to improve bearing capacity and accelerate the dissipation of pore water pressure when load is imposed to the soil. …”
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Scale-Up Investigation of a Pilot and Industrial Scale Semi-Autogenous Mill Using a Particle Scale Model by Paul W. Cleary, Matt D. Sinnott, Rob D. Morrison

“…Grinding of the finer particles in the slurry due to collisions and shear of the coarser particles (rocks and grinding media) is achieved via the inclusion of population balance terms in these equations for each SPH particle. …”
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A Radiological Risk Assessment of ²²⁶Ra, ²²⁸Ra and ⁴⁰K Isotopes in Tilapia Fish and its Granitic Environment in Singida Municipality, Tanzania by Amin R. Kazoka, Jilisa Mwalilino, Paul Mtoni

“…People in the Singida Municipality harvest fish from lakes and ponds of granite rocks which are linked with hazardous radioisotopes that may be bio-concentrated by fishes they consume. …”
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Pore-Scale Modeling of the Effect of Wettability on Two-Phase Flow Properties for Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids by Moussa Tembely, Waleed S. Alameri, Ali M. AlSumaiti, Mohamed S. Jouini

“…The Darcy-scale properties of reservoir rocks, such as capillary pressure and relative permeability, are controlled by multiphase flow properties at the pore scale. …”
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Effect of Modified Septic Tank on Groundwater Quality around Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, South-west Nigeria by Kofoworola Olatunde, Modupe Sarumi, Sadiq Abdulsalaam, Babatunde Bada, Funmilola Oyebanji

“…A correlation analysis and a principal component analysis both reflect intrusions from biological wastes such as surrounding septic tanks or municipal waste disposals as well as dissolutions from basal rocks. The possibility of infiltration from sewage into groundwater is confirmed by the number of samples with high BOD, NO3-, and E. coli concentrations. …”
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The estimation methods of microfillers influence on cement stone properties/Mikroužpildų įtakos cementinio akmens savybėms analitinio įvertinimo principai by Juozas Deltuva, Žymantas Rudžionis

“…The concrete and cement microfillers are materials of different fineness, such as wastes of production or pulverized rocks. According to their influence on cement hardening process, they may be classified into inert microfillers or chemically active ones. …”
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Deep geothermal resources in China: Potential, distribution, exploitation, and utilization by Yongsheng Ma

“…Deep geothermal resources mainly refer to the thermal energy stored in subsurface rocks and fluids therein at a depth of 3–10 km, which is a kind of renewable and sustainable clean energy unaffected by weather and seasonal changes. …”
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MATERIALS USED IN THE ROAD BASES: METHOD OF THE RESIDUAL DEFORMATIONS’ CALCULATION by A. S. Aleksandrov, T. V. Semenova, N. P. Aleksandrova

“…The authors studied such materials as granite, gneissic, granodiorite and diorite crushed stone, sand, gravel and crushed stone, gravel mixtures with a mineral part from various rocks and fortified sands.Discussion and conclusions. …”
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Microscopic Study of Shale Anisotropy with SEM In Situ Compression and Three-Point Bending Experiments by Weibo Sui, Yulong Wang, Junwei Li

“…Uniaxial compression test and three-point bending test are considered to be efficient means to study the elastic properties and crack behavior of rocks. In this paper, uniaxial compression experiments and three-point bending experiments were conducted on shale outcrops in the Changqing area using field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and in situ tensile testing, and the microscopic deformation and crack processes were quantitatively characterized by the digital image correlation (DIC) method. …”
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Multifeature Extraction and Seafloor Classification Combining LiDAR and MBES Data around Yuanzhi Island in the South China Sea by Mingwei Wang, Ziyin Wu, Fanlin Yang, Yue Ma, Xiao Hua Wang, Dineng Zhao

“…The experimental results of the seafloor classification around Yuanzhi Island in the South China Sea indicate that, when LiDAR waveform features are merged (using an Optech Aquarius system) with MBES backscatter image features (using a Sonic 2024) to classify three types of sands, reefs, and rocks, the overall accuracy is improved to 96.71%, and the kappa reaches 0.94. …”
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