In a high-resolution small-scale seismic experiment we investigated the shallow structure of the Wadi Araba fault (WAF), the principal fault strand of the Dead Sea Transform System between the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat and the Dead Sea. The experiment consisted of 8 sub-parallel 1 km long seismic lines crossing the WAF. The recording station spacing was 5 m and the source point distance was 20 m. The...

In this paper we present on-going investigations on how complex syntactic annotation, combined with linguistic semantics, can possibly help in supporting the semi-automatic building of (shallow) ontologies from text by proposing an automated extraction of (possibly underspecified) semantic relations from linguistically annotated text.

Today, modern Geotechnical Engineers, who in the past would have considered phenomena occurring (primarily soil) environment, are faced with developments environmental sciences that becoming more and detailed sophisticated, natural processes surrounding civil engineering infrastructure being modelled, designed, monitored, assessed a holistic way [...]

One of the primary public concerns with new development of shale and other unconventional gas resources is potential contamination of shallow groundwater with natural gas (largely methane). Natural gas contamination of shallow groundwater can result from leaky gas production wellbores (e.g. Stein et al., 2003; Van Stempvoort et al., 2005). However, there is also concern that hydraulic fracturin...

– How geophysical data can inform the archaeological potential of urban land. prospecting strategies be adapted to contexts. setups and results constrained with geotechnics geomatics.

Acquiring geometric data, such as coordinates, displacements or deformations, has always been a way to verify mathematical modelling in civil engineering. The introduction of finite elements methods further reinforced this trend. This paper reports on two applications of photogrammetry to soil and rock mechanics in order to provide an accurate and dense description of the deformation fields of ...