Sun, Qiang Meng, Guohao Sun, Kai Zhang, Jixiong
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Solid backfill coal mining technology can be safely and efficiently used to exploit coal resources under aquifers, without causing harm to the water resources and the environment. Nevertheless, the mechanism of fracture development and seepage channel or pathway control in the key aquiclude strata (KAS) in backfill coal mining under fluid–solid cou...
Ghobadi, Azadeh Cheraghi, Mehrdad Sobhanardakani, Soheil Lorestani, Bahareh Merrikhpour, Hajar
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This study was conducted to assess the suitability of groundwater resources for drinking and irrigating purposes in Hamedan–Bahar Plain, west of Iran as a major agricultural district, in the spring and summer of 2018. In so doing, a total of 60 water specimens were collected from the semi-deep water wells of the study area with an average depth of ...
Heiskanen, Juha Hagner, Marleena Ruhanen, Hanna Mäkitalo, Kari
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Mine closures require landscape reclamation to reduce the environmental risks of tailings fields. However, information about the feasibility of recyclable waste materials as a growth medium layer for the cover systems of mine tailings and their effects on vegetation restoration and reforestation success is scant especially in the boreal climate. Th...
Wang, Li Guo, Fei Wang, Shimei
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During the storage period of the Three Gorges Reservoir, the bank erosion caused by wind-induced wave is getting more serious, especially for the crushed stone soil bank. The continuous wave scouring and erosion destabilize the bank slope and even induce the occurrence of landslides. Based on the energy conservation theory, the bank slope will reac...
Heidsiek, Matthias Butscher, Christoph Blum, Philipp Fischer, Cornelius
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Environmental Earth Sciences
The fluvial-aeolian Upper Rotliegend sandstones from the Bebertal outcrop (Flechtingen High, Germany) are the famous reservoir analog for the deeply buried Upper Rotliegend gas reservoirs of the Southern Permian Basin. While most diagenetic and reservoir quality investigations are conducted on a meter scale, there is an emerging consensus that sign...
Sun, Yin-Juan Ma, Jing Chen, Yong-Gui Tan, Bang-Hong Cheng, Wei-Jia
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Different doses of carbide slag and metakaolin are used to solidify/stabilize copper-contaminated soil in accordance with its degree of contamination. This paper presents some experimental findings on the physical and chemical properties of the treated soil, including unconfined compressive strength, stress–strain state and pH, explained by series ...
Yang, Zhiyuan Witharana, Chandi Hurd, James Wang, Kao Hao, Runmei Tong, Siqin
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Environmental Earth Sciences
This empirical research examines the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the percent impervious surface area (%ISA) as indicators of urban heat island (UHI) effects, using the relationships between land surface temperature (LST), %ISA, and NDVI. Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager and Thermal Infrared Sensor data were used to estimate t...
Liu, Wei Liu, Shenghua Tang, Changgen Qin, Wen Pan, Hongzhong Zhang, Jianmei
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Environmental Earth Sciences
In this study, we used pollution evaluation indices, principal component analysis (PCA), and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) to assess the pollution status of surface water systems after mine closure in an intensive coal-mining area of Guizhou. The concentrations of Fe, Al, Mn, Hg, total nitrogen, volatile phenols, sulfide, and petroleum in mos...
Tokatli, Cem Ustaoğlu, Fikret
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In the current research, water quality of Meriç River Delta was evaluated using some toxic element risk assessment indices. Samples were collected from 24 locations and nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), arsenic (As), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), copper (Cu) and cadmium (Cd) accumulations in delta components were read using an ICP-MS. Water quality index (WQI), ...
Adimalla, Narsimha Qian, Hui
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