Earth Sciences

Volume 3, Issue 5, October 2014

  • Consideration of Tobacco Dust as Organic Amendment for Soil: A Soil & Waste Management Strategy

    Sarah Shakeel

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 5, October 2014
    Pages: 117-121
    Received: Oct. 29, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 28, 2014
    Published: Dec. 05, 2014
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    Abstract: Soil is non-renewable reserve that has high frequency of contamination and very low rate of replenishment in this environment. Immense food requirements have evolved the compelled usage of chemical fertilizers to have optimum crop leaf area in minimum time scale that have devastating impacts on biological, physical and chemical properties of the so... Show More
  • Gutenberg-Richter Law Parameters Analysis Using the Hellenic Unified Seismic Network Data Through FastBee Technique

    Popandopoulos G. A., Chatziioannou E.

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 5, October 2014
    Pages: 122-131
    Received: Nov. 27, 2014
    Accepted: Dec. 05, 2014
    Published: Dec. 16, 2014
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    Abstract: The mapping of the minimum completeness magnitude Mc and parameters (a- and b-value) of the Guttenberg-Richter (G-R) law was studied for Greece territory and adjacent areas by using the new earthquakes catalog produced by the Hellenic Unified Seismological Network (HUSN). For the calculation of the parameters a- and b-values the visual method of th... Show More