Typology of endogenous seismic sources generated by gravitational slopemovements 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Topple and fall related sources On vertical to sub-vertical slopes, mass movement occurs as the topple of rock columns or as the free-fall (and possibly bouncing and rolling) of rocky blocks (Hungr et...

Involving homebuilder companies and public authorities in the insurance scheme

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF EARTHQUAKE INSURANCE SOLUTIONS The International Disaster Database (CRED), shows that the number of damaging earthquakes (i.e. more than 100 people affected) and the consecutive economic loss are increasing since 1960....

Implications of a low solidus melting-temperature for the history of the Earth’s upper mantle

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Multi Anvil Experiments During the last 50 years, a number of different MAAs have been used in high pressure and high temperature experiments. From the Bridgman anvil (developed in 1952 and used by...

The recovery of key ecological processes in headwater streams following hydromorphological restoration: the examples of litter decomposition and streambed oxygenation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Sites with new channel meanders Two stream sections, Flume (48°14'36.8"N 1°46'43.6"W) and Malville (47°55'06.0"N 2°24'36.4"W) draining farmlands and which had previously been channeled away from their original thalwegs to create space for farmlands...

Petrological and geochronological evidence of collisional orogenesis and lower crust exhumation during the Palaeoproterozoic Eburnean Orogeny, SW Ghana, WAC 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Stratigraphy and nomenclature The Palaeoproterozoic West African Craton is characterised by narrow volcanic greenstone belts, wide meta-sedimentary “basins” and vast granite-gneiss terranes, bounded and separated by crustal-scale transcurrent shear zones that formed during...

Uncertainty analysis for seawater intrusion in fractured coastal aquifers: Effects of fracture location, aperture, density and hydrodynamic parameters

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Seawater Intrusion in coastal aquifers The population density of coastal regions around the world is nearly three times the average global population density (Small and Nicholls, 2003). The inhabitants of coastal regions rely...

Interactions between surface processes and earthquakes at short time scale (< 1000 years) 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Contrôle de la forme des versants sur la taille des glissements de terrain Dans le chapitre précédent, j’ai défini un modèle mécanique simple prenant en compte la topographie et la résistance effective de...

Effects of estuary sediment contamination on physiology, biochemical biomarkers and immune parameters in juvenile European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, L., 1758)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Choice of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, L., 1758) as a biological model European Sea bass is a euryhaline key species in estuarine and coastal environments and a valuable commercial aquaculture species, economically...

The effects of extensional inheritance on the Pyrenean orogeny

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Precipitation at high latitudes and altitudes In a warming climate, precipitation is expected to change not only in terms of du-ration, frequency and intensity (Trenberth et al., 2003; Stephens and Ellis, 2008; Behrangi...

Fundamental mechanisms of photon and electron-induced desorption

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Dust and ice mantles Dust grains in the ISM lock up a large part of the heavy elements available. They are mostly either silicate grains or carbonated grains, with varied forms of silicates...