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Four metro tunnels are completed in Hong Kong
- Nov, 17, 2021
- Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Tunneling In Soils Engineering Geology Structural Geology News On Projects / Industry News On Events Geology Highlights Other News
- Hong Kong
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Dragages Hong Kong has built one of Hong Kong’s most technically challenging series of tunnels – part of the 6km extension of the ongoing Sha Tin to Central Link works from Hung Hom to the Admiralty...
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Solving Grand Canyon's puzzling geological history
- Aug, 12, 2021
- Structural Geology News On Research / Academia Geology Highlights
- United States, Arizona
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new study comes to shed light on a long-lasting mystery about the geology of the Grand Canyon. This involves a time gap in the canyon's rock formations that stretches for more than a billion years....
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Understanding the nature of friction on earthquake faults by studying a volcanic eruption
- Aug, 20, 2021
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Structural Geology News On Research / Academia News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, Hawaii
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), focuses on a volcanic flank collapse to understand how frictional resis...
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Why is the Gulf of Mexico so rich in fossil fuel deposits?
- May, 11, 2021
- Oil & Gas Structural Geology Seismic Other News
- Gulf of Mexico
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Despite the continuous exploration, the Gulf of Mexico still has enormous quantities of oil and gas deposits. From around 335 million years ago until 200 million years ago, all land on Earth was conc...
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How geological processes affect the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: The case study of Taiwan
- Apr, 07, 2021
- Structural Geology Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Research / Academia
- Taiwan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new study, recently published in Nature Geoscience, focuses on the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere controlled by geological processes such as erosion and weathering of roc...
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A sandstone fragment reveals valid information over climate change
- Apr, 28, 2021
- Structural Geology Laboratory Testing News On Research / Academia Geology Highlights
- Antarctica
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A cobble of green sandstone discovered near Antarctica has revealed crucial information regarding the future conditions on Earth if climate change persists. The effects of climate change are evident...
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Solving the mystery of ancient rockslides in the Alps
- Feb, 16, 2021
- Landslides Structural Geology News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Alps
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The triggering factors of massive, pre-historic rockslides that occurred in the Alps have finally been revealed. Signs of ancient rockslides are evident in the European Alps as rock debris has accumu...
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The mystery behind east Australia's volcanoes
- Dec, 16, 2020
- Structural Geology Other Geotechnical News On Research / Academia
- Australia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Scientists have shed light on the existence of so many volcanoes across a belt in Australia. The east coast of Australia is characterized by numerous volcanoes that have erupted over the past million...
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Finding a missing tectonic plate
- Oct, 19, 2020
- Structural Geology News On Research / Academia
- North America
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Scientists from the University of Houston have managed to detect signs of a controversial tectonic plate knows as the Resurrection Plate. The existence of the Resurrection Plate is an issue long deba...
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62,163 paper downloads in 2020 for the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories!
- Jan, 13, 2021
- Other Geotechnical News On Publications Dam Engineering Data Management Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Energy Geotechnics Engineering Geology Forensics Erosion Foundation Design / Construction Geo-Energy Geoenvironmental Engineering Geomatics Geomorphology Geophysics Geosynthetics Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Ground Improvement Green Infrastructure Groundwater & Seepage Instrumentation Landslides Laboratory Testing Levees Mining Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Offshore Geotechnics Railway Geotechnics Ports Residual Soils Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Risk & Reliability Rock Engineering Slope Stability Soil Dynamics Soil Mechanics Structural Geology Underground Structures Tunneling Engineering Seismology Visualization Transportation Geotechnics News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Alexandros Tsavalas
The ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering CaseHistories is proud to announce that 62,163 papers were downloaded in 2020. The International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories is an off...
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