Arsenic concentrations were measured in 992 drinking water samples collected from New Hampshire households using online hydride generation ICP-MS. These randomly selected household water samples contain much less arsenic than those voluntarily submitted for analysis to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES). Extrapolation of the voluntarily submitted sample set to all Ne...

We studied the effects of a dry rock sitting on a 3% water-containing martian-surface soil on neutron and gamma-ray fluxes. Rocks with radii of ~25 cm and bigger significantly affect these fluxes and the flux ratios of certain gamma rays. Introduction: The rock surface abundances on Mars are inferred from orbital data to vary from almost zero to ~30% [1]. These rock abundances are consistent wi...

In extra-thick coal seams, mining operations can lead to large-scale disturbances, complex overburden structures, and frequent and strong strata behavior in the stope, which are serious threats to mine safety. This study analyzed the overburden structure and strata behavior and proposed the technique of confined blasting in water-filled deep holes as a measure to prevent strong rock pressure. I...

Road and railway tunnels in cold regions are often affected by problems related to water leakage and freezing temperatures. Water leakage in a tunnel leads to ice growth when the temperature goes below freezing and creates favourable environment for fallouts of shotcrete and rock. This paper presents results and observations from laboratory freezing – thawing experiments on rock blocks covered ...

A 4-year study in a central Texas cave quantifies multiple mechanisms that control dripwater composition and how these mechanisms vary at different drip sites. We monitored cave-air compositions, in situ calcite growth, dripwater composition and drip rate every 4–6 weeks. Three groups of drip sites are delineated (Groups 1–3) based on geochemical variations in dripwater composition. Quantitativ...

various researches on laboratory and field scale illustrate that manipulating the ionic composition and the ion concentration of injected water can affect the efficiency of water flooding and the interaction of injected water with rock and other fluids present in porous media. the objectives of this paper are to investigate parameters that affect low salinity water flooding; mainly the effect o...

The ultimate goal of geochemical studies of geothermal systems is to understand the physical-chemical processes responsible for their origin and evolution. The chemical composition of fluids (separated vapor and water), collected from fumaroles, hot springs and drilled wells at the Earth’s surface (25oC) is determined in the laboratory. Using the chemical geothermometers, conservation of mass, ...

Water is the main source for domestic, engineering, industrial, agricultural and multipurpose uses which affects its supply and demand due to rapid rise in population. Occurrence and movement of groundwater are controlled by the degree of weathering, fracturing, the geomorphological set up and precipitation [1,2] Scarcity of potable drinking water is one of the major development issues in parts...

1 Cohen Geochemistry Group, Earth Surface Science Institute, School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 Rock-Water Interaction Group, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 3 Interface Geochemistry, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, 4 Nano-Science Centre, Department of Chemistry...

Introduction: The main-belt object Ceres (radius≈475 km, density≈2100 kg m-3 , semi-major axis 2.7 AU), is an exciting place to explore planetary hab-itability. Abundant volatiles could have shaped Ceres in a way analogous to that suspected on icy moons. Hydrothermalism: Ceres' surface seems blanketed by products of the interaction between silicate rock and liquid water, including carbonates [1...