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Environmental Earth Sciences

Issue 8/2016

Content (94 Articles)

Original Article

Effects of biochar application on Suaeda salsa growth and saline soil properties

Junna Sun, Fuhong He, Hongbo Shao, Zhenhua Zhang, Gang Xu

Thematic Issue

Nutrient estimation by HJ-1 satellite imagery of Xiangxi Bay, Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Yuling Huang, Dongxing Fan, Defu Liu, Linxu Song, Daobin Ji, Erqing Hui

Original Article

Caprock analysis from the Mihályi-Répcelak natural CO2 occurrence, Western Hungary

Csilla Király, Ágnes Szamosfalvi, László Zilahi-Sebess, Péter Kónya, István János Kovács, Eszter Sendula, Csaba Szabó, György Falus

Original Article

Determination of the origins and recharge rates of the Sfax aquifer system (southeastern Tunisia) using isotope tracers

Rahma Ayadi, Kamel Zouari, Hakim Saibi, Rim Trabelsi, Hafedh Khanfir, Ryuichi Itoi

Original Article

A seasonal changes-based equilibrium strategy for coal–water conflict: a case study at the Yanzhou coal field

Jiuping Xu, Chengwei Lv, Jinzhong Zuo, Mengxiang Zhang, Ziqiang Zeng

Original Article

Using soil survey data for modeling phosphorus sorption capacity

Bharpoor S. Sekhon, Devinder K. Bhumbla

Original Article

Variability of dust mass concentrations and deposition rates under different weather conditions in Cele Oasis, southern Tarim Basin

Lishuai Xu, Guijin Mu, Junxia He, Fan Yang, Xiao Ren, Dejun Wan, Yongchong Lin

Original Article

Water quality and hydrogeochemistry of a basin and range watershed in a semi-arid region of northern New Mexico

Benjamin Linhoff, Patrick Longmire, Michael Rearick, Denis McQuillan, George Perkins

Thematic Issue

Carbohydrate production by microbial mats communities in tidal flat from Bahía Blanca Estuary (Argentina)

E. M. Fernández, C. V. Spetter, A. M. Martinez, D. G. Cuadrado, M. J. Avena, J. E. Marcovecchio

Original Article

Hydrocarbons in surface sediments of harbor areas in a tropical region (Ceará state, northeast Brazil)

Lucas Moreira Buruaem, Satie Taniguchi, Silvio Tarou Sasaki, Márcia Caruso Bícego, Leticia Veras Costa-Lotufo, Denis Moledo Souza Abessa

Original Article

Assessment of groundwater contamination around active dumpsite in Ibadan southwestern Nigeria using integrated electrical resistivity and hydrochemical methods

S. A. Ganiyu, B. S. Badmus, M. A. Oladunjoye, A. P. Aizebeokhai, V. C. Ozebo, O. A. Idowu, O. T. Olurin

Original Article

Groundwater simulation for efficient water resources management in Zhangye Oasis, Northwest China

Shilei Chen, Wei Yang, Zailin Huo, Guanhua Huang

Original Article

Reactive transport modeling of redox processes to assess Fe(OH)3 precipitation around aquifer thermal energy storage wells in phreatic aquifers

Mathias Possemiers, Marijke Huysmans, Christian Anibas, Okke Batelaan, Jos Van Steenwinkel

Original Article

Causes and processes of sandy desertification in Guinan County, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Xiaoying Li, Zhengyi Yao, Zhibao Dong, Jianhua Xiao

Original Article

Reactive Henry problem: effect of calcite dissolution on seawater intrusion

Ezzeddine Laabidi, Rachida Bouhlila

Original Article

A methodology for ranking potential pollution caused by abandoned mining wastes: application to sulfide mine tailings in Mazarrón (Southeast Spain)

J. C. Arranz-González, V. Rodríguez-Gómez, E. Alberruche del Campo, L. Vadillo-Fernández, F. J. Fernández-Naranjo, J. Reyes-Andrés, R. Rodríguez–Pacheco

Original Article

Effect of thermal history on the properties of bentonite

A. R. Estabragh, F. Khosravi, A. A. Javadi

Original Article

Development of a loess-mudstone landslide in a fault fracture zone

Jianbing Peng, Yanqiu Leng, Xinghua Zhu, Di Wu, Xiao Tong

Thematic Issue

Seasonal changes in organotin compounds in sediments from the Bahía Blanca Estuary

Pamela Y. Quintas, Ana L. Oliva, Andrés Arias, Claudia E. Domini, Mónica B. Alvarez, Mariano Garrido, Jorge E. Marcovecchio

Original Article

Elemental geochemistry and mineralogy of coals and associated coal mine overburden from Makum coalfield (Northeast India)

Binoy K. Saikia, Ananya Saikia, Rahul Choudhury, Panpan Xie, Jingjing Liu, Tonkeswar Das, Hari P. Dekaboruah

Original Article

Comparison of SRM and WetSpa models efficiency for snowmelt runoff simulation

Hamid Karimi, Hossein Zeinivand, Naser Tahmasebipour, Ali Haghizadeh, Mirhassan Miryaghoubzadeh

Original Article

GIS-based multivariate adaptive regression spline and random forest models for groundwater potential mapping in Iran

Mohsen Zabihi, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Zohre Sadat Pourtaghi, Morteza Behzadfar

Original Article

Automated mineralogical methodology to study carbonate grain microstructure: an example from oncoids

Abduljamiu Olalekan Amao, Khalid Al-Ramadan, Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah

Original Article

Aquifer vulnerability and seawater intrusion risk using GALDIT, GQISWI and GIS: case of a coastal aquifer in Tunisia

Nadia Trabelsi, Ibtissem Triki, Imen Hentati, Moncef Zairi

Original Article

Potential of river bank filtration (RBF) in Egypt

K. Ghodeif, T. Grischek, R. Bartak, R. Wahaab, J. Herlitzius

Thematic Issue

Iron biogeochemistry in Holocene palaeo and actual salt marshes in coastal areas of the Pampean Plain, Argentina

M. Osterrieth, N. Borrelli, M. F. Alvarez, G. N. Nóbrega, W. Machado, T. O. Ferreira

Original Article

Identifying geomechanical parameters of high cut rock slopes by an improved multi-output support vector machine method

Shaojun Li, Hongbo Zhao, Zhongliang Ru, Qiancheng Sun, Jiajian Li

Original Article

Tracking the hydrodynamic behavior of fine sediment using particle image velocimetry

Masoumeh MoayeriKashani, S. H. Lai, S. Ibrahim, N. M. N. Sulaiman, F. Y. Teo

Thematic Issue

River basin management in Central Asia: evidence from Isfara Basin, Fergana Valley

Iskandar Abdullaev, Shavkat Rakhmatullaev

Original Article

Length prediction of non-aerated region flow at baffled chutes using intelligent nonlinear regression methods

O. Faruk Dursun, Muhammed Fatih Talu, Nihat Kaya, O. Faruk Alcin

Original Article

Geochemistry of geothermal waters from the Gonghe region, Northwestern China: implications for identification of the heat source

Mingliang Liu, Qinghai Guo, Xiaobo Zhang, Jin Luo, Jiexiang Li, Chao Zhou, Wei Guo, Canhai Zhang, Mingcheng Zhu

Original Article

Modeling river discharge time series using support vector machine and artificial neural networks

Mohammad Ali Ghorbani, Rahman Khatibi, Arun Goel, Mohammad Hasan FazeliFard, Atefeh Azani

Original Article

Conceptualization and characterization of a coastal multi-layered aquifer system in the Taranto Gulf (southern Italy)

Giovanna De Filippis, Mauro Giudici, Stefano Margiotta, Sergio Negri

Original Article

Particle swarm optimization inversion of self-potential data for depth estimation of coal fires over East Basuria colliery, Jharia coalfield, India

V. Srivardhan, S. K. Pal, Jitendra Vaish, Sahadev Kumar, Abhay Kumar Bharti, Piyush Priyam

Original Article

NORM, radon emanation kinetics and analysis of rocks-associated radiological hazards

A. S. Arabi, I. I. Futua, B. B. M. Dewu, M. Y. Kwaya, E. Kurowska, A. M. Muhammad, M. L. Garba

Thematic Issue

Bioaccumulation of PAHs in marine zooplankton: an experimental study in the copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus

Andrés H. Arias, Anissa Souissi, Marion Roussin, Baghdad Ouddane, Sami Souissi

Original Article

Study of threshold gradient for compacted clays based on effective aperture

S. Wang, W. Zhu, X. Qian, H. Xu, X. Fan

Thematic Issue

Glacial runoff and transport of suspended sediment from the Chhota Shigri glacier, Western Himalaya, India

Virendra Bahadur Singh, AL. Ramanathan, Jose George Pottakkal

Thematic Issue

Heterogeneity of glacial lake expansion and its contrasting signals with climate change in Tarim Basin, Central Asia

Xin Wang, Qionghuan Liu, Shiyin Liu, Junfeng Wei, Zongli Jiang

Original Article

Geothermal energy potential of eastern desert region, Egypt

D. Chandrasekharam, A. Lashin, N. Al Arifi, A. Al Bassam, C. Varun, H. K. Singh

Original Article

Remediation of PCE contaminated clay soil by coupling electrokinetics with zero-valent iron permeable reactive barrier

Daryoush Yousefi Kebria, Maryam Taghizadeh, José Villaseñor Camacho, Nima Latifi

Original Article

Spatial variability of cave-air carbon dioxide and methane concentrations and isotopic compositions in a semi-arid karst environment

L. K. McDonough, C. P. Iverach, S. Beckmann, M. Manefield, G. C. Rau, A. Baker, B. F. J. Kelly

Original Article

Instrumental neutron activation analysis, gamma spectrometry and geographic information system techniques in the determination and mapping of rare earth element in phosphogypsum stacks

Renata Coura Borges, Déborah Inês Teixeira Fávaro, Vanessa Godoy Caldas, Dejanira da Costa Lauria, Alfredo Victor Bellido Bernedo

Original Article

Ecosystem stability analysis with LUDC model and transitional area ratio index for Xihu oasis in Dunhuang, China

Dongqin Yin, Xiang Li, Yuefei Huang, Yuan Si, Jiahua Wei, Jiahong Liu, Rui Bai

Original Article

Land-use change caused microbial pollution in a karst underground river, Chongqing, China

Qiufang He, Shulan Qiu, Yongjun Jiang, Ze Wu, Ziqi Liu

Original Article

Using GPR for assessing the volume of sediments from the largest natural dam lake of the Eastern Carpathians: Cuejdel Lake, Romania

Alin Mihu-Pintilie, Andrei Asandulesei, Ionut Cristi Nicu, Cristian Constantin Stoleriu, Gheorghe Romanescu

Thematic Issue

Spatial distribution and susceptibility zoning of geohazards along the Silk Road, Xian-Lanzhou

Jianqi Zhuang, Jianbing Peng, Xinghua Zhu, Wei Li, Penghui Ma, Tieming Liu

Original Article

Field pumping experiments and numerical simulations of shield tunnel dewatering under the Yangtze River

Baotian Xu, Changhong Yan, Qian Sun, Yunping Liu, Jian Hou, Shi Liu, Canhui Che

Original Article

Hydrogeochemical analysis of multiple aquifers in a coal mine based on nonlinear PCA and GIS

Lei Ma, Jiazhong Qian, Weidong Zhao, Zachary Curtis, Ruigang Zhang

Original Article

Early landslide detection based on D-InSAR technique at the Wudongde hydropower reservoir

Mowen Xie, Jiaxuan Huang, Liwei Wang, Jiehui Huang, Zengfu Wang

Thematic Issue

Distribution and mechanism of the ground fissures in Wei River Basin, the origin of the Silk Road

Jianbing Peng, Jianwei Qiao, Yanqiu Leng, Feiyong Wang, Shouzhong Xue

Original Article

Analyses of recent observations of Urumqi Glacier No. 1, Chinese Tianshan Mountains

Puyu Wang, Zhongqin Li, Huilin Li, Hongbing Yao, Chunhai Xu, Ping Zhou, Shuang Jin, Wenbin Wang

Original Article

The soil leakage ratio in the Mudu watershed, China

Xingping Wei, Yaner Yan, Deti Xie, Jiupai Ni, Hugo A. Loáiciga

Original Article

Estimating the mud depth of debris flow in a natural river channel: a theoretical approach and its engineering application

Yange Li, Chuan Tang, Zheng Han, Jianling Huang, Linrong Xu, Yi He, Guangqi Chen

Original Article

Mitigating depletion of a porous geothermal aquifer in the Pannonian sedimentary basin

Nina Rman, Andrej Lapanje, Joerg Prestor, Michael J. O’Sullivan

International Viewpoint and News

German contributions to the Major Water Program in China: “Innovation Cluster–Major Water”

M. Dohmann, C. Chen, M. Grambow, O. Kolditz, P. Krebs, K. R. Schmidt, G. Subklew, A. Tiehm, P. Wermter, X. H. Dai, Z. L. Liao, W. Meng, Y. H. Song, D. Yin, B. H. Zheng