Earth Sciences

Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2018

  • Aquatic Shallow Subterranean Habitats: General Features

    Tanja Pipan, David Clair Culver

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2018
    Pages: 1-6
    Received: Aug. 25, 2017
    Accepted: Sep. 06, 2017
    Published: Dec. 05, 2017
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    Abstract: Shallow (superficial) subterranean habitats, or SSHs are very close to the surface, but are aphotic. Some of these habitats are large cavities, especially lava tubes, while others are small cavity habitats, especially the underflow of streams and rivers (interstitial aquifers), and the soil. But, there is an especially interesting set of SSHs that ... Show More
  • The Reply to a New Approach to the Stratigraphy of the Pleistocene Sequence Along the Baltic Sea Coast, Westernmost Latvia

    Alexander Savvaitov, Georgy Konshin

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2018
    Pages: 7-10
    Received: Oct. 09, 2017
    Accepted: Oct. 28, 2017
    Published: Dec. 05, 2017
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    Abstract: New conception offered by Tomas Saks, Andis Kalvāns, Vitālijs Zelčs [14] about the stratigraphic interpretation of the Pleistocene sequence in the area of westernmost Latvia along coast of the Baltic Sea cardinally differs from recognition of real stratigraphic units proved on the basis of the biostratigraphic principles. Present article deals with... Show More
  • Preliminary Data of Fluvial Geomorphological Evolution and Its Link with Hazards and Human Impact: The Case of Peiros River, North Western Peloponnese, Greece

    Georgios Alevizos, Giannis Mpalatsas, Leonidas Stamatopoulos

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2018
    Pages: 11-16
    Received: Oct. 17, 2017
    Accepted: Nov. 16, 2017
    Published: Dec. 20, 2017
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    Abstract: River channel dynamics are the result of the complex interaction between natural and human factors, at both local and regional scale. The study of river channel dynamics may be an important way to better understand the mechanisms that rule the functioning of fluvial systems, allowing predictions of its future evolution to be made and appropriate ad... Show More
  • Metallogenic Series of Gold Deposits in the Cariboo Gold Mining District, British Columbia, Canada

    Jian Zhao Yin

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2018
    Pages: 17-22
    Received: Nov. 24, 2017
    Accepted: Dec. 04, 2017
    Published: Jan. 11, 2018
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    Abstract: The Cariboo gold mining district is located in central British Columbia, Canada. Recorded gold production from the area totals more than 3.87 million ounces, including an estimated 2.64 million ounces from placer mining from 101 creeks and 1.23 million ounces from lode mining. The district consists of two dominant metallogenic series of gold deposi... Show More
  • Fast Landform Position Classification to Improve the Accuracy of Remote Sensing Land Cover Mapping

    Wenjuan Qi, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Zhi Li, Fengshuo Yang, Zhiling Zheng

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2018
    Pages: 23-33
    Received: Oct. 11, 2017
    Accepted: Oct. 24, 2017
    Published: Jan. 19, 2018
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    Abstract: With the increase in the availability of high resolution remote sensing imagery, land cover classification and mapping by high-resolution remote sensing images is becoming an increasingly useful technique for providing a large area of detailed land-cover information. High-resolution images have the characteristics of abundant geometric and detail i... Show More
  • The New Hypothesis of the Origin to the Emeishan LIP: Because of the “Collisions Aggregation Effect” of a Meteorite Impact

    Liu Chenming

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2018
    Pages: 34-41
    Received: Dec. 15, 2017
    Accepted: Jan. 03, 2018
    Published: Jan. 19, 2018
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    Abstract: Emeishan LIP is the only accredited continental flood basalts (CFB) by domestic and international currently in China, there were a lot of explanations about its origin and based only on the petrology, chemistry, most believe its cause of formation is a "mantle plume", but just stay in the geochemical basis, there is no more convincing evidence. Thi... Show More