This project focuses on the protection and management of Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns, renowned for their historical and architectural significance. Despite global pressures from tourism and commercial development, Edinburgh has established a robust world cultural heritage protection and management system. The approach integrates top-down and bottom-up strategies, involving dedicated municipal officials and an independent organization, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust. The city’s emphasis on ...

Culture  Geography  History  Human Geography  Geochemistry 

Sedimentary environments are an important part of paleogeography and sedimentology, and there is a long history of using geochemical and mineralogical methods to analyze palaeoenvironmental problems using sedimentary rocks as a research vehicle. By summarizing the important results of previous work on tracing the palaeoenvironment using the composition and distribution characteristics of the macronutrients and trace elements as well as the characteristics of mineral composition, we aim to sort o...

Geology  Geochemistry  Mineralogy  Sedimentology 

At present, the Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (BOTDR) sensor has been widely used in oil and gas pipeline monitoring and maintenance, and the ability to resist cross-interference is weak for the BOTDR sensor system, and it cannot process interference data at the same time. A Polarized Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (POTDR) based on the polarization effect is designed, which is based on the traditional POTDR sensor system and combined with the fiber grating, by using the fiber gr...

Chemical Engineering & Technology  Geochemistry 

Oil mining wastes such as Produced water, drilling muds and cuttings may lead to contamination of groundwater. The study investigated whether Produced water from the oil well pads in south Lokichar basin, Turkana County, Kenya, leads to contamination of the neighboring groundwater resources. The specific objectives of the study were to 1) determine the physicochemical properties of Produced water and 2) determine the physicochemical properties of boreholes water near oil well pads. Produced wate...

Geochemistry  Environmental Sciences 

The spatial local anomalies of the concentration ratios for isotopes ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd (or εNd) and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶S in Lukkulaisvaara intrusion (North Karelia) were discovered. The physical mechanisms and the descriptions of the effect of an arising of those anomalies were developed and presented. The base of the proposed mechanisms is the phenomena of the migration (diffusion) of components, due to the (T, P (or D)) gradients. The description of the processes of a...

Geochemistry 

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Hydrology  Geochemistry 

Clouse to faults or unstable areas where an earthquake could happen with capacity of affecting buildings or infrastructure, there is often a previous energy that wanders around surroundings, this energy regularly is associated to electromagnetic emissions that generate an electric potential frequently studied as very, ultra-low and extreme frequency emissions (VLF-ULFELF_ EM) by remote sensing; under the assumption that this natural potential exist, in aquatic environment within the micro-seismi...

Geochemistry 

This current paper discusses an application of the aerial radiometric method in the Itaboraí Region, located in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Radiometric data acquired by aircraft registered in counts per second of potassium, thorium and uranium channels were processed generating radiometric maps of the entire region. The generated maps provide important information regarding the superficial geology. At last, all the radiometric information gained is correlated with geological and topographical ...

Geology  Geophysics  Chemical Engineering & Technology  Geochemistry