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The western part of the Makran subduction zone (Iran) is currently experiencing active surface uplift, as attested by the presence of emerged marine terraces along the coast. To b…

[…] Vom alten Braunkohlentiefbau in Brandenburg ausgehende Gefahren für die öffentliche Sicherheit werden in Art und Umfing dargestellt sowie Wege zur Erfassung und Sanierung alt…

The removal of chemical species from seawater during the precipitation of authigenic minerals is difficult to constrain but may play a major role in the global biogeochemical cycl…

This paper presents a probabilistic formulation for modeling earthquake rupture processes of mainshocks. A correlated multivariate Bernoulli distribution is used to model rupture …

[...] Die Rezension stellt den 8. Band der Reihe „Führer zur Geologie von Berlin und Brandenburg“ vor, der pünktlich zum Jahr der Geowissenschaften 2002 erschien. Das Werk dokumen…

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; ~ 56 million years ago (Ma) is the most severe carbon cycle perturbation event of the Cenozoic. Although the PETM is associated with wa…

A range of proxy approaches have been used to reconstruct short-term changes to Earth’s hydrological cycle during the early Eocene hyperthermals. However, little is known about th…

Large volumes of magma emplaced and deposited within sedimentary basins can have an impact on their architectural style and geological evolution. Over the last decade, continuous …

Hydrogeological data sets are often relatively sparse compared to the scale of investigation, resulting in degrees of uncertainty which, although constrained, may be considered as…

This paper presents a robust parameter estimation technique for a probabilistic earthquake hazard model that captures time and space interactions between earthquake mainshocks. Th…

Velocity stepping experiments have been performed on a simulated calcite gouge using an annular shear apparatus to investigate the effect of dissolution on the frictional properti…

[…] Neue geologische Daten aus Bohrungen und Aufschlüssen in Ostbrandenburg erhärten die von mehreren Autoren auch für westlich und östlich angrenzende Räume ausgesprochene These …

As multiphysics geomechanical models get developed, their increasing complexity and number of parameters make it particularly difficult to calibrate against experimental data. In …

The following work is a part of wider uranium prospecting programme of the Atomic Mineral Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) for mapping radioactive anomalies in miner…

The molar mass of water vapor is significantly less than that of dry air. This makes a moist parcel lighter than a dry parcel of the same temperature and pressure. This effect is …

Most geodetic inversions of surface deformation rates consider the depth distribution of interseismic fault slip-rate to be time invariant. However, some numerical simulations sho…

The role of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the balance between supply and demand of net primary productivity (NPP) over Africa is unclear. Here, we analyze the impact of E…

MgCO3 is one of the most important components of mantle-derived carbonatite melts, and yet also one of the most difficult to study experimentally. Attempts to constrain its thermo…

[…] Der Tätigkeitsbericht dokumentiert die Arbeiten des Hessischen Landesamtes für Bodenforschung im Geschäftsjahr 1991 Schwerpunkte waren geologische und bodenkundliche Landesauf…

This study focuses on water quality and quantity impacts from natural resource development on watersheds originating on Crow tribal lands in southeastern Montana. My field researc…

Mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining (MTR/VF) in Central Appalachia has buried an estimated 4000 km of headwater streams, but the geomorphic implications of the constructed…

Analysis of distortions of the crystal lattice within individual mineral grains is central to the investigation of microscale processes that control and record tectonic events. Th…

GPS-based navigation devices use large-scale visualizations of the route, where the focus lies on turn instructions. Although efficient on the wayfinding task, this approach does …

Companies and academic geophysicists are increasingly collecting continuous seismic data on denser arrays, and are looking to a variety of lossy compression methods to store and q…

Buried volcanoes are increasingly identified in the sedimentary basins both on lands and continental margins. However, their roles on the post-eruption fluid flows are still poorl…

To test the potential of using amino acid abundances as a biosignature at icy ocean worlds, we investigate whether primordial amino acids (accreted or formed by early aqueous proc…

[...] Die Gewinnung von Steine- und Erden-Rohstoffen stellt für das Land Brandenburg einen bedeutenden Wirtschaftsfaktor dar. Aufgrund der spezifischen geologischen Verhältnisse, …

We present a new method for determining the azimuthal variation of ambient seismic noise sources, that combines the computational speed and simplicity of traditional approaches wi…

An efficient forward modeling algorithm for calculation of gravitational fields in spherical coordinates is developed for 3D large‐scale gravity inversion problems. 3D Gauss‐Legen…

Injection-induced earthquakes are now a regular occurrence across the midcontinent United States. This phenomenon is primarily caused by oilfield wastewater disposal into deep geo…

Analyzing of trends in flood magnitude and the timing of the dates of flood occurrences of large river basins across the globe are essential for understanding changes in water ava…

[…] Der Beitrag stellt ein Pilotprojekt des LBGR vor, das erstmals 2D-seismische Untersuchungen in der Niederlausitz zur tiefengeologischen Landesaufnahme und zur Bewertung geothe…

Seafloor topography affects the sediment gravity flows that interact with it. Understanding this interaction is critical for accurate predictions of sediment distribution, paleoge…

Faults, landslides and subglacial till often contain accumulations of granular debris. Their macroscopic motion is at least to some extent determined by the processes operating in…

Computer models are essential tools in the earth system sciences. They underpin our search for understanding of earth system functioning and support decision- and policy-making ac…

Fresh water – the bloodstream of the biosphere – is at the centre of the planetary drama of the Anthropocene. Water fluxes and stores regulate the Earth’s climate and are essentia…

Estimating the relief of the Moho from gravity data is a computationally intensive non-linear inverse problem. What is more, the modeling must take the Earths curvature into accou…

A recent work by Kimura et al. (2019) (hereafter referred to as K19) claims to provide the first observational constraints on the prompt elastogravity signals (PEGS) induced by an…

[…] Der Artikel von Alf Grube behandelt die glazitektonische Überprägung des oberflächennahen Untergrundes in Hamburg. ​ Es werden Abweichungen in der Schichtenfolge tertiärer und…

It has been common practice to plot gasoline range parameters as absolute concentrations within crude oils of either single compounds, sums of compound pairs, or the square root o…

Accurate estimation of flood frequency is crucial for designing safe infrastructures. To reduce model uncertainty, threshold modeling techniques are often useful in bringing more …

Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) is a set of statistical techniques to investigate the effects of the uncertainty in the input factors of a mathematical model on the model’s outp…

Shipping fairways in estuaries are continuously dredged to maintain access for large vessels to major ports. However, several estuaries worldwide show adverse side effects to dred…

Band 130 enthält geowissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zu Struktur, Sedimentation und Hydrogeologie im hessischen Untergrund. Wichtige Beiträge befassen sich mit der geologischen Do…

The Cascadia subduction zone hosts great $\mathrm{M}_\mathrm{W} > 8.5$ earthquakes, but studying these events is hindered by our short observational record. Earthquake cycle si…

An estimated 8.3 billion tonnes of non-biodegradable plastic has been produced over the last 65 years. Much of this is not recycled and is disposed into the sedimentary system, ha…

The application of agricultural pesticides in Africa has high negative effects on human health and the environment. To analyse the effect, spatial data characterizing the environm…

Tectonic models are commonly underpinned by metamorphic cooling rates derived from diffusive-loss thermochronology data. Such cooling ages are usually linked to temperature via Do…

We characterise the aftershock sequence following the 2016 Mw=7.8 Pedernales earthquake. More than 10,000 events were detected and located, with magnitudes up to 6.9. Most of the …

[…] Aus Sammlungen des Forschungsinstituts Senckenberg werden verschiedene Vertreter der Phacopinae aus dem sogenannten Greifenstein-Kalk von Günterod, dem Greifenstein-Kalk von B…