Cuccuru, Stefano Deluca, Ferdinando Mongelli, Giovanni Oggiano, Giacomo
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Groundwater quality can be compromised by its interaction with deep thermal waters. In northern Sardinia, two different deep thermal-water-flow systems have recently been recognized on the basis of thermal and isotopic features. One system (GW) is hosted in deep, mainly granitic, fractured reservoirs with water temperatures of 30–45 °C and Cl–Na hy...
Kumar, Praveen Mahajan, Ambrish Kumar
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Northwest Himalaya is one of the seismically active regions that had experienced a number of major and moderate earthquakes in the past. The 4th April 1905 Kangra earthquake (Ms 7.8) is one amongst those which had caused a devastating effect to the built environment, as a consequence of amplification factor due to varied impedance contrast between ...
Fatemi, Akram
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Water quality of rivers depends on land use, sediment load, natural hazards such as flooding and drought, water pollution and eutrophication, and multiple use. The water quality management of the Gharasou River in a basin-scale approach was reviewed. Both non-point and point sources were investigated in terms of management, land use, and patterns o...
van Rooyen, J. D. Watson, A. P. Miller, J. A.
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Groundwater vulnerability is normally associated with the potential for contamination, for example the DRASTIC approach, but the increasing importance of groundwater in human, agricultural, and industrial systems, implies that groundwater vulnerability is dependent on a range of other parameters and particularly parameters impacted by climate chang...
da Costa, Luis Ricardo Dias Monteiro, José Paulo Patrício Geraldes Hugman, Rui Twohig
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Concentration of nitrates in groundwater at the Nitrate Vulnerable zone of Faro, south Portugal, reaches values as high as 300 mg/l; therefore, according to the EU Water Framework Directive, mitigation measures need to be implemented. A Managed Aquifer Recharge scheme is proposed to accelerate the dilution and natural discharge of nitrates from the...
Richter, Gudrun Hainzl, Sebastian Dahm, Torsten Zöller, Gert
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Groningen is the largest onshore gas field under production in Europe. The pressure depletion of the gas field started in 1963. In 1991, the first induced micro-earthquakes have been located at reservoir level with increasing rates in the following decades. Most of these events are of magnitude less than 2.0 and cannot be felt. However, maximum obs...
Jianbing, Wei Na, Zhang Quanguo, Cheng Shanyu, Wu Zhibo, Liu
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Shenbei district of Shenyang city, Liaoning province, northeast China is a typical urban–rural (peri-urban) fringe of a megacity that is undergoing rapid urban expansion and the intensification of agricultural management, which threatens the quality of shallow groundwater in the area. This study selects proper indices relevant to vulnerability, str...
Frozzi, José Cezar da Cunha, José Maurício Campos, Milton César Costa Bergamin, Anderson Cristian Brito, Wildson Benedito Mendes Fraciscon, Uilson da Silva, Douglas Marcelo Pinheiro de Lima, Alan Ferreira Leite de Brito Filho, Elilson Gomes
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Environmental Earth Sciences
The transformation of natural Amazonian environments into production systems, mainly related to agriculture and livestock, is considered the most frequent anthropic activity in the region, which can cause significant changes in physical attributes and soil organic carbon. On the other hand, the proper development of the plants depends basically on ...
Gül, Yavuz Hastaoğlu, Kemal Özgür Poyraz, Fatih
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Environmental Earth Sciences
The determination and monitoring of deformations that may occur in the benches of dump sites of open-pit mines are important for both security and continuity of mine production. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the most preferred method for deformation monitoring at dump sites. While the amount of deformation (3D displacements) can ...
Menningen, J. Siegesmund, S. Krompholz, R. Rieffel, Y.
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Environmental Earth Sciences
After almost 200 years of exposure, the monuments of General Scharnhorst and Bülow have been analysed by means of ultrasound. Both sculptures are made of Carrara marble, both sculptures have been exposed to the same environmental influences and both sculptures are, based on the results of the ultrasonic measurements, in alarming conditions. This st...
