Planetary exploration is the embodiment of a nation’s synthesis science and technology power. The first step is to land a rover to explore the unknown world. The science task always begins from rock and soil. Rock sample and return is one of the important tasks of planetary exploration, which should be accomplished by the rover’s hardware and software. A series of algorithms related to main sci...

Babolsar eastern coastal dunes have been developed along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. The studied area is coordinated in N36°43' to N36°44' latitude and E52°44' to E52°52' longitude. The objectives of this research were to: Study mineralogy and geochemistry of sand dunes, to obtain chemical alteration index (CIA) and its relationship to climate and mineralogy, to de...

key factor in the successful application of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) in tunneling is the ability to develop accurate penetration rate estimates for determining project schedule and costs. Thus establishing a relationship between rock properties and TBM penetration rate can be very helpful in estimation of this vital parameter. However, this parameter cannot be simply predicted since there ...

Surface/ground water pollution caused by the inflow of acid water enriched with heavy metals has become a serious environmental problem in the areas around mines [1,2]. This results from the sulfate discharge generated by the decomposition of pyrite contained in the altered rock in mining areas [3]. The same problem has arisen at engineering work excavation sites in recent years [4]. Therefore,...

In classic theory, the natural gas generated by organic matter (OM) would become dry with the increase of source rock maturity [1]. Meanwhile, the carbon isotope of gas would become heavy during the evolution process of source rock [2-4]. However, some new characteristics of geochemistry appear in shale gas found in shale with over maturity, such as the isotopic rollover, partial reversal and f...

The objective of this paper is to present a new rock mass classification system which can be appropriate for rock slope stability assessment. In this paper an evaluation model based on combining the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM)was presented for assessing slope rockmass quality estimates. This research treats the slope rockmass classification as a group deci...

the petroleum potential of the seyahou (ordovician) and sarchahan (lower silurian) formations in northern bandar abbas has not been investigated sufficiently. these sediments crop out as thinly laminated shales and are about 100 meters thick. a number of thirty-five selected samples were subjected to rock-eval pyrolysis followed by transmitted, reflected and uv light microscopy together with cl...

Because the continuum approach is relatively simple and straightforward to implement, it has been commonly used in modeling flow and transport in unsaturated fractured rock. However, the usefulness of this approach can be questioned in terms of its adequacy for representing fingering flow and transport in unsaturated fractured rock. The continuum approach thus needs to be evaluated carefully by...