The New Digital Geological Map of Europe and Standardisation: Consistency as the Last Refuge of the Unimaginative?! -- Why Should We Worry about Standards for Digital Geological Maps? -- Geological Map of the Future: Digital, Interactive, and Three-Dimensional -- The Role of Engineering Geology in Standardization of Innovative Geological Mapping -- Can Geological Surveys Have Their Own Standard…
Evolution of a Concept -- Stratigraphy: Evolution of a Concept -- The Search for Patterns: Ordering the Framework -- Buried Time: Chronostratigraphy as a Research Tool -- Ecostratigraphy’s Basis, using Silurian and Devonian Examples, with Consideration of the Biogeographic Complication -- Devonian Palynostratigraphy in Western Gondwana -- Carboniferous and Permian Palynostratigraphy -- Biostr…
Transport properties of porous media -- Transport in Porous Media: Upscaling by Multiscale Asymptotic Expansions -- Micromechanical Analysis of Saturated Porous Media with Local Mass Exchange Phenomenon -- Diffusive transport in disordered media. Application to the determination of the tortuosity and the permeability of cracked materials. -- Microporomechanics -- Poroelasticity and strength of …
Introduction -- Earthquake Early Warning Systems -- A Combined Geophysical/Engineering Approach of the Seismic Safety of Long-Span Bridges -- Earthquake Modelling in the Dead Sea Basin -- Nonlinear Seismology - The Seismology of the XXI Century -- Structure of the Upper Mantle beneath Northern Eurasia Derived from Russian Deep-Seismic PNE Profiles -- True-Amplitude Imaging -- Imaging of Orebodi…
Near-Surface Site Characterization Using Surface Waves -- Surface Wave Testing for Geotechnical Characterization -- Surface Waves in Dissipative Media: Forward and Inverse Modelling -- Waves Propagation Modes: From Simple Systems to Layered Soils -- Elastic modelling of surface waves in single and multicomponent systems -- Modelling of surface waves in poroelastic saturated materials by means o…
Motivation -- Fundamentals of potential theory -- Gravity field of the earth -- Gravity reduction -- Heights -- The geometry of the earth -- Gravity field outside the earth -- Space methods -- Modern views on the determination of the figure of the earth -- Statistical methods in physical geodesy -- Least-squares collocation -- Computational methods."Physical Geodesy" by Heiskanen and Moritz, pu…
International Consortium on Landslides -- ICL History and Activities -- International Programme on Landslides -- Landslide Investigation in Machu Picchu World Heritage, Cusco, Peru (C101-1) -- Preliminary Remarks on Monitoring, Geomorphological Evolution and Slope Stability of Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu (C101-1) -- Geomorphological Investigations at Machu Picchu, Peru (C101-1) -- The Applicat…
Change of support: an inter-disciplinary challenge -- Combining categorical and continuous information using Bayesian Maximum Entropy -- Geostatistical prediction of spatial extremes and their extent -- Monitoring network optimisation using support vector machines -- Bayesian Kriging with lognormal data and uncertain variogram parameters -- Kriging of scale-invariant data: optimal parameterizat…
Chapter1: Seismic Geophysics -- Chapter2: Historical Overview of Petroleum and Seismology -- Chapter3: Seismic interpretation in Petroleum Exploration -- Chapter4: Application to Petroleum Development -- Chapter5: Summary.This book demystifies that art and science of seismic interpretation for those without formal geophysical training. From geologists to managers and investors, The Art and Scie…
Experimental and numerical modelling of a reinforced structure -- Employment of sisal natural fibers as soil reinforcement -- Bearing capacity of surface treated coir geotextile reinforced sand Load carrying capacity of expansive clay beds reinforced with geogrid-encased granular pile-anchors -- Ultimate bearing capacity prediction of eccentrically loaded rectangular footing on reinforced sand …