The interactions between the geophysical processes and geodynamics of the lithosphere play a crucial role in the geologic structure of the Earth’s crust. The Bangui magnetic anomaly is a notable feature in the lithospheric structure of the Central African Republic (CAR) resulting from a complex tectonic evolution. This study reports on the coherenc...
Published in Frontiers in Energy Research
Geologic carbon storage (GCS) is a fundamental pillar of carbon management that helps mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and addresses the negative effects of climate change. Viable CO2 storage sites share some of the same elements required for successful petroleum systems. For example, while reservoir, seal, and trap are required, migration pathway...
Peru is the eighth largest producer of cacao beans globally, but high cadmium contents are constraining access to international markets which have set upper thresholds for permitted concentrations in chocolate and derivatives. Preliminary data have suggested that high cadmium concentrations in cacao beans are restricted to specific regions in the c...
Drones (UAV, unmanned aerial vehicles), along with the development of technology, are more and more used to solve scientific problems. This is particularly true for Earth and environmental sciences, including geomorphology, structural geology and sedimentology. In addition to hardware and technical issues, the parallel development of photogrammetri...
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Groundwater is a vital component of life; without its identification, it is impossible to live. Therefore, identifying groundwater potential zones (GWPZs) is critical. For this purpose, the study area of the Kohat District was selected to identify GWPZs using the multi-influencing factors (MIF) approach. The Kohat area has a semi-arid to sub-humid ...
I am a child of Sputnik, the satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. That event created opportunities for me to escape the horrors of apartheid by emigrating from South Africa to the United States. There, fortuitously, I was given excellent opportunities to explore how an interplay between the waves and currents influences climate variabili...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Over the last few decades, numerous geological studies have been carried out in the South Shetland Islands, which have greatly contributed to a better understanding of its geological evolution. However, few attempts have been conducted to correlate the geological units throughout this archipelago. We present herein a review of the literature availa...
An account of the geology, vegetation associations, mycobiota, flora and avifauna of Ngārango Otainui, a 0.309 ha island located at the eastern end of the Māngere Inlet, Manukau Harbour, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland is provided. This appears to be the first comprehensive account of the island’s geology, vegetation and biota. The island has been mappe...
To reveal the geological and geomorphological causes of deep-seated catastrophic landslides (DCLs) by heavy rainfall in the 1953 Aridagawa disaster, detailed geological mapping and geomorphological analysis using 1-m DEMs were undertaken in the upper reaches of the Arida River in the Kii Mountains. This area is underlain by the Cretaceous accretion...
