Introduction: The California Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup (CSMW) has requested proposals from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team (WCMG) to evaluate the transport and fate of fine sediments discharged into California coastal waters. The rationale for this proposed work is a need to better understand the environmental consequences of beach nourishme...

The popular bar prank known in colloquial English as beer tapping consists in hitting the top of a beer bottle with a solid object, usually another bottle, to trigger the foaming over of the former within a few seconds. Despite the trick being known for a long time, to the best of our knowledge, the phenomenon still lacks scientific explanation. Although it seems natural to think that shock-ind...

Laboratory tests were performed on 54 large size specimens of jointed rock mass under uniaxial loading conditions. Based on this experimental study, a methodology has been suggested to estimate strength and tangent modulus of rock masses through a weakness coefficient. The methodology involves mapping of joints in the field and laboratory testing of intact rock specimens to arrive at rock mass ...

A map showing the distribution of rock units and structures across a region representation, usually on a plane surface is termed a geological map. A map showing the occurrence of structural features across a region, the distribution of rock units, and their type and age relationship is termed a geological map. Geological field mapping is the process of selecting an area of interest and identify...

Convergent plate margins are arguably the most complicated and dynamic plate boundaries on Earth and have been the subject of many investigations and discussions since the advent of plate tectonic theory. Due to the varied, heterogeneous and complex structure of convergent plate margins, which arises from the multiple geological, physical and chemical processes operating at these zones, and bec...

The data management of a large geological survey is not an easy task. To efficiently store and manage the huge datasets, a database of geological information on the basis ofMicrosoftAccess has been created. By using the database of geological information, we can make easily and scientifically store andmanage the large geological information.The geological maps—borehole diagrams, the rose diagra...

The 3D data model is an important issue to be solved in 3DGIS. Based on the study of the basic characteristics of geological objects and the especial requirement for computational 3D geological volume modeling, the authors give out an object-oriented 3D topologic data model for geological volume modeling. In this data model, the geological volumes are divided into four classes: the composite vo...

Preliminary geological investigations have been conducted to find suitable construction site and to assess engineering geological characteristics before detailed in situ investigation for large scale construction activities such as highway, railroad, subway or underground cavern constructions. The geological stability is a very important and critical factor for safe maintenance of structures an...

National geological survey works have characteristics of data enormousness, computing denseness, resource distribution, and applications heterogeneousness. As innovative information infrastructure and service architecture, grid can meet geological survey application requirements by implementing sharing and cooperation of distributed and heterogeneous resources. Based on grid technologies and OG...