Yucca Mountain, Nevada is being investigated as the proposed site for geologic disposal of the United States’ high level nuclear waste. A massive effort to collect data for characterization of the thermo-hydrologic behavior of the unsaturated zone is being conducted at the site. Several boreholes have been instrumented by the United States Geological Survey and the Nye County Nuclear Waste Repo...

Citation: Takeuchi N, Fujisawa Y, Kadota T, Tanaka S, Miyairi M, Shirakawa T, Kusaka R, Fedorov AN, Konstantinov P and Ohata T (2015) The Effect of Impurities on the Surface Melt of a Glacier in the Suntar-Khayata Mountain Range, Russian Siberia. Front. Earth Sci. 3:82. doi: 10.3389/feart.2015.00082 The Effect of Impurities on the Surface Melt of a Glacier in the Suntar-Khayata Mountain Range, ...

Triaxial experiments show that samples of fault gouge deform distinctly differently than those from the adjacent fault damage zone (e.g., Chester and Logan, 1986). Rock samples in the damage zone follow a characteristic elastic-brittle behavior, whereas fault gouge readily compacts and deforms in a more ductile manner. In order to explain the apparent weakness of large plate bounding faults suc...

in the urumieh-dokhtar volcanic zone, there are nearly parallel faults to the zagros zone.they were formed during collision of the arabic plate with central iran plate. the northwest-southeast trending of qom-zefreh fault system has long been recognized as major faults in central iran. the general aim of this research is to identify the activity period of this fault and the extent of its effect...

Citation: Li J, Shen Z, Li C, Kou Y, Wang Y, Tu B, Zhang S and Li X (2018) Stair-Step Pattern of Soil Bacterial Diversity Mainly Driven by pH and Vegetation Types Along the Elevational Gradients of Gongga Mountain, China. Front. Microbiol. 9:569. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00569 Stair-Step Pattern of Soil Bacterial Diversity Mainly Driven by pH and Vegetation Types Along the Elevational Gradients ...

Fission track analysis of apatites from basement rocks of the Wright Valley in southern Victoria Land provides information about the timing. the amount and hence the rate of uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains in this area. Apatite ages increase systematically with elevation, and a pronounced break in the age versus elevation profile has been recognised at about 800 m on Mt. Doody near the m...