Again this year, abstracts from the annual Atlantic Universities Geological Conference (AUGC) are published in Atlantic Geology. This provides a permanent record of the abstracts, and also focuses attention on the excellent quality of the presentations and posters and the interesting and varied geoscience that they cover. The abstracts are published with fi nancial assistance from APICS. THE ED...

The assessment of railway safety hazards is a long-term and difficult task, developing efficient models has made significant contributions to preventing controlling these hazards. This paper aims demonstrate that the Linformer model based on self-attention performs better than other typical qualitative, machine learning, deep learning in hazard susceptibility assessment. are used evaluate south...

Hazard analysts and risk managers of natural perils, such as earthquakes, landslides and floods, need to access information from sensor networks surveying their regions of interest. However, currently information about these networks is difficult to obtain and is available in varying formats, thereby restricting accesses and consequently possibly leading to decision-making based on limited info...

Integrating geological concepts, such as relative positions and proportions of the different lithofacies, is of highest importance in order to render realistic geological patterns. The truncated plurigaussian simulation method provides a way of using both local and conceptual geological information to infer the distributions of the facies and then those of hydraulic parameters. The method (Le L...

The aim of this paper is to examine the ergonomic hazards associated with small scale mining in Southern Africa. A number of ergonomic health hazards affect the workers involved in the small scale mining. Many people in Southern Africa are working in the informal mining sector without any guarantee of occupational health and safety. Actual work places in deep level mines present unique challeng...

In this research note we introduce a method to build volumetric hybrid meshes suitable for finite element computations. Our work is motivated by meshing problems encountered in geological modeling. Geological models are multimaterial models that can have a high number of interfaces, these interfaces can come close to each other in certain zones and intersect at low-angles defining thin features...