background: the presence of radionuclides in the soil, measures need to be taken to minimize the radiation dose to humans. it is mostly gamma-emitting radionuclides that contribute to the radiation dose in long term behavior of these radionuclides in soil may determine the extent to which such countermeasures need to be applied. materials and methods: the activity concentration of these radionu...

Lineation is a general term to describe any repeated, commonly penetrative and parallel alignment of linear elements within a rock (to envision lineation, imagine packages of spaghetti). A lineation may be a primary igneous or sedimentary fabric element, such as an array of elongate K-feldspar porphyroblasts, inclusions or pebbles oriented with their long dimensions mutually parallel, or flute ...

The Los Alamos Hot Dry Rock Reservoir is an experimental geothermal project in north-central New Mexico. A fractured zone was created within otherwise impermeable igneous and metamorphic rock by injecting water into a borehole under high pressure, at about 3.5 km depth. During the injection process, the seismic waves created by the fracturing events were recorded by seismometers located in four...

Introduction: Knowledge of martian igneous and mantle composition is crucial for understanding mantle evolution including early differentiation, mantle convection and the chemical alteration of the surface. Primitive magmas provide critical information on their mantle source regions but most Martian meteorites crystallized from fractionated melts [1]. The new martian meteorite NWA 5789, discove...

the microscopic and geomechanical properties of igneous building stones include the level of alteration, presence of micro cracks, peak strength, porosity, proportion of detrimental minerals, etc. porosity is reportedly of a devastating impact on the peak strength of igneous rocks. the quartz diorite rock samples in this study were selected from five quarries in natanz, iran and subject to micr...

Landslides associated with hillside cuttings in igneous rock saprolites are a serious natural hazard in Hong Kong and have been extensively studied by government agencies and local universities for many years from the perspective of soil and rock engineering. A review of the case studies for some major landslides, especially deep-seated landslides, shows certain puzzling features. First, a numb...

[1] New slope measurements from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), in conjunction with the Rock Mass Rating system (RMR), permit inversions of slope height and angle from wallrock and interior deposits within Valles Marineris troughs for strength and lithology. Wallrock (50 < RMR < 65) is stronger than interior deposits (30 < RMR < 55). These values are consistent with layered igneous roc...

X-ray mapping is increasingly used in the geological sciences for qualitative observations of textures, mineral zoning, and element distribution among rock components [1-4]. We combine mapping with an aggressive program of image analysis in deepening our understanding of the early solar system through the analysis of chondritic meteorites [5, 6]. Chondrites are “sediments” that accreted in the ...