National geological survey works have characteristics of data enormousness, computing denseness, resource distribution, and applications heterogeneousness. As innovative information infrastructure and service architecture, grid can meet geological survey application requirements by implementing sharing and cooperation of distributed and heterogeneous resources. Based on grid technologies and OG...

A GIS based modelling technique has been developed to model the various geological units of the continents starting from the UNESCO geological map of the world. Depending upon the known rock types of the region, they are assigned a standard susceptibility value and using the Crust2.1 seismic crustal structure, a vertically integrated susceptibility (VIS) model is computed at each point of the r...

To assess the historical biogeography of freshwater topminnows in the genus Poeciliopsis, we examined sequence variation in two mitochondrial genes, cytochrome b (1140 bp) and NADH subunit 2 (1047 bp). This widespread fish genus is distributed from Arizona to western Colombia, and nearly half of its 21 named species have distributions that border on the geologically active Trans-Mexican Volcani...

Palaeobiodiversity analysis underpins macroevolutionary investigations, allowing identification of mass extinctions and adaptive radiations. However, recent large-scale studies on marine invertebrates indicate that geological factors play a central role in moulding the shape of diversity curves and imply that many features of such curves represent sampling artefacts, rather than genuine evoluti...

The objective of hybrid modeling is to obtain a balance of geological reality, the representation of spatial uncertainty with a fixed set of initial parameters and the capability of being conditioned to the hard data as well. Reasonable algorithms have been constructed in previous works (Pyrcz et al. 2003, 2005, Michael et al. 2008 and Leiva et al. 2009). However, realism of erosion and deposit...

s and Program, Geological Society of America, Denver,Colo., 28(7,) A-261.Turcios, L. M., and Gray, J. R. (2001). „U.S. Geological Surveysediment and ancillary data on the World Wide Web.‰ Proceedings of the 7th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Subcommittee on Sedimentation, Reno, Nev.,Poster 31-36.Turcios, L. M., Gray, J. R., and Ledford, A. L. (2000). „...

A noticeable feature of many earthquake-prone cities such as Kobe (Japan), Izmit (Turkey), Nice (France), Mexico City, Los Angeles etc., is that they are partially or wholly built on soft soil. A straightforward 1D analysis (which takes no account of the presence of the buildings) shows that the soft layer increases the seismic vulnerability of the city in that it is responsible for amplificati...

Microstructures of rocks play an important role in determining the rheological properties and usually help to reveal the processes that lead to their formation. Several processes can be active during the formation of a rock and they may be active simultaneously or in series. Some processes change the microstructure significantly and may obliterate any fabrics that indicate the previous history ...

The Paleocene-Eocene transition in North American land-mammal faunas is well documented on the south side of Polecat Bench and in surrounding badlands of northwestern Wyoming. Here a rich fossil record is known from a stratigraphic section with an established geomagnetic polarity time scale and mediumto high-resolution carbon and oxygen isotope records. The Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excur...