Geoaesthetics is the project of making aesthetic sense of nature through geological phenomena. The aesthetic appreciation of nature has recently become urgent because of the serious influence of the natural environment on human beings. The author’s geoaesthetical research is categorized into three problems: art in geology or geology in the arts as the close relationship between art and geology,...

Anthropogenic changes to the Earth's climate, land, oceans and biosphere are now so great and so rapid that the concept of a new geological epoch defined by the action of humans, the Anthropocene, is widely and seriously debated. Questions of the scale, magnitude and significance of this environmental change, particularly in the context of the Earth's geological history, provide the basis for t...

The Seti River originates from the Annapurna Massif in Higher Himalaya of Nepal and flows through Pokhara valley Lesser Himalaya. witnessed a disastrous flash flood on May 5th, 2012 causing death 72 people, obliterating dozens homes damaging infrastructures worth millions dollars. Despite event several warnings by scientists for more yet bigger scale future floods valley, fluvial risk is being ...

Hydro generation scheduling is a nonlinear programming problem. This paper describes the hydro generation scheduling problem constraints. The optimal hydro scheduling problem is formulated as a large scale linear programming algorithm and is solved using a commercially available linear programming package. The selected objective function requires minimization of demand and generation of a hydro...

Market-oriented reforms in the electricity supply industry worldwide have changed the decision investment context. Risks, such as the real need for new capacity and the return on investment, which were formerly borne by consumers or by taxpayers, now have to be faced by investors. However, even when scarcity prices efficiently reflect the tightness of supply in electricity markets, the reliabil...

Topological relationships between geological objects are of great interest in the process of mining and petroleum exploration. Indeed, adjacency, inclusion and intersection are common relationships between geological objects such as faults, geological units, fractures, reservoirs... However, in the context of 3D modeling, actual geometric data structures used to store objects of interest are no...

During 2000-2001, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Ocean Modeling and Prediction Division of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), constructed tidal gages at the East Pearl River at CSX Railroad near Claiborne, Mississippi, at the Rigolets at CSX Railroad near Rigolets, Louisiana, and at the Chef Menteur Pass at CSX Railroad at Chef Menteur, Louisiana, to co...