The Sim-SEQ project coordinated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) aims at providing a comparative study of different conceptual models with respect to predicting the behavior of CO2 geological storage operations conducted on a reservoir formation, while using the same database for site characterization. The S-3 site has been selected for conducting such a comparative study. Al...

The Synnyrsky massif is the largest intrusive containing ultra-potassium syenites, synnyrites, which are raw materials for production of potash fertilizers and aluminum. An extensive complex geological geochemical studies has been carried out, including exploratory drilling, was out on first time. data obtained made it possible to significantly change idea structure massif, a different look at ...

Measuring the geological disaster-risked situation, is a typical non-deterministic decision-making issue in disaster prevention and emergency response science for military engineering. Based on the given geological disaster risk analysis mechanism, geological disaster risk monitoring matrix was established, and risk characters’ value was obtained by mining the hidden information in the monitori...

This paper presents a geological application in a virtual immersive environment : the Immersive Geological Pilot. This application allows a user to interactively build a structured geological model and its associated geological evolution scheme (a directed acyclic graph) by setting the various geological surfaces of the model one after the other in reverse chronological order, beginning with th...

The biogeochemcical reactions responsible for fossilized minerals preservation in ancient geological conditions are very often debatable, because little is known about the in situ processes at geo-historical period. In the present study, we describe the formation of iron ores collected in the intertidal zone of the Zhujiajian Island, Zhoushan Archipelago in the East China Sea. Morphological, mi...

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 ...

We report horizontal sliding of the kilometre-scale geologic block under the Aso hot springs (Uchinomaki area) caused by vibrations from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake (Mw 7.0). Direct borehole observations demonstrate the sliding along the horizontal geological formation at ~50 m depth, which is where the shallowest hydrothermal reservoir developed. Owing to >1 m northwest movement of the geolog...