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Nowadays petroleum industry has a clear trend of depletion of conventional resources in traditional producing regions. As countries and petroleum companies are looking for the new directions of the development there is a need for evaluation and forecast of development of regions with high petroleum potential. The research focuses on one of such regions ? Easter Siberia of Russia. The region on one hand holds large resource potential that can provide base for sustainable development of the area and country in gener...

This paper presents the results of a study of a model site of the settlement Ksizovo-1 (XXIV-XXIII centuries BC) in the forest-steppe zone. The research object is located in the Lipetsk region on the floodplain terrace of the left bank of the river Snova, right tributary of the Don River. The aim of the study was to assess the variation of chemical and enzymatic characteristics of the cultural layers of the settlement in the profile and in the plan over the entire area of the excavation. During the excavations, so...

The global development of science and technology encourages many countries to use their own modern coordinate systems, determined on the basis of satellite measurements. At the same time, the modern system should be characterized by its openness and unity for the entire territory of the country. One of the main problems arising in the creation and operation of its own high-precision positioning satellite systems in the Republic of Kazakhstan are the lack of domestic satellite equipment, specialized software and te...

Metal?microbe redox interactions have implications for ore formation and recovery of uranium from ore-containing materials. The speciation of uranium in relation to its bio-availability is reviewed. U(VI) is the major form of U in oxic surface waters, while U(IV) - in anoxic waters. The ability of uranium to bind the bacterial cell surface is dependent on its physicochemical form. Within solid-phase organic matter, microbes can influence oxidation state and stability of uranium through direct enzymatic reduction, ...

Waste electronic equipment has become one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. Mobile phones make up a large proportion of this waste. They cause not only ecological threat, but also a serious waste of resources, including copper. That is why new and effective ways of processing this waste and reusing recovered metals are increasingly being sought. Most modern research on the recovery of non-ferrous and precious metals from mobile phones has focused on hydrometallurgical and biometallurgical techniqu...

The constructive solutions proposed for the realization of constructions must take into account the existing situation on site and the way of manifesting of as many factors that can influence the functionality of the building as possible. When functional deficiencies occur during the construction operation, they must be located immediately, the causal factors must be identified sooner rather than later and measures must be taken to eliminate their effects. The activity of building monitoring is aimed at monitoring...

Organic production has become a highly specialized agricultural system, which requires specific professional education, knowledge and technologies. The global demand for organic products is projected to increase in the future. In Latvia, the output of organic agricultural products continues increasing, yet the current output as well as the growing processing and sales capacity is not able to meet the demand for organic products by consumers, which is expected to increase over the next years. Therefore, the aim of ...

Among the global problems, the special importance is given to optimization of transport communications` operation in the cities, which with more or less severity is risen in all of the countries. The best transport and geographic location of Georgia has the world importance, where the transport corridor Europe Caucasus Asia is being intensively constructed. The topics referring to necessity of Batumi bypass road of transport corridor Europe Caucasus Asia and issues related to its construction is already studied. T...

Landfills (dumps) are places where the end of the life cycle of products can be found - useful material is dumped away from the sight creating contaminant flows around. Another problem is huge unexplored potential of resources recycling - we have limited knowledge also on useful elements and materials that are buried. The solution to overcome the limitations that provide remote sensing and traditional geodesy, proximal sensing techniques could be used. ?Near surface geophysics? with operation at or just below the ...

Hospitals are an essential element of public infrastructure. Some aspects of civil infrastructure have become considered critical. Critical infrastructure means an element of critical infrastructure or a system of critical infrastructure (healthcare system), the disruption of the function of which would have a severe impact on state security, provision of basic living needs of the population, and the health of persons or state economy. To the critical infrastructure sector belongs transport, energy, agriculture, h...

Floodplains are complex systems which include a wide number of socio-economic activities like agriculture, freshwater fisheries, electricity from power plants and others. They have often highly dynamic property, due to the alternation of fluvial processes, floods, and ongoing sediment transport, as well as of environmental specifics and natural or anthropogenic processes. In the context of the investigation of soil pollution with heavy metals in the riverine floodplains, the availability of geomorphological maps a...

The sulfide containing wastes stocked in the Ur dumps were studied in this paper. The Novo-Ursky copper-pyrite deposit, containing the polymetallic ores, was discovered in 1932 as part of the Ursky ore field, Kemerovo region. During the day, the parameters of each of the dumps change: temperature, humidity of the upper layer, geoelectric parameters, concentrations of emitted substances (gases, vapor with volatile compounds of chemical elements). This article discusses these variables in terms of an integrated appr...

The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, adopted on 2 November 2001 is an international treaty aims to saving the underwater cultural heritage. Romania have joined the UNESCO Convention on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage in July 2007. The Western Black Sea shelf has been defined entirely as an archaeological site. Based on complex geological, sedimentological, stratigraphic studies and determinations of absolute age [2, 6] it was argued the existence of a cycl...

The use of renewable energy is discussed, monitored and regulated by organizations all over the world in the current context of transition to green economies. Moreover, the focus of the debates in the scientific world is targeted towards emissions reduction which has become one of the most significant impact assessment tool of the renewable energy use. By the extensive review of the publications regarding energy access and the monitoring of sustainable development around the world, it can be concluded that the dat...

We analyze the micro-seismic noise recorded at five seismic stations ? DEC, DJJ, FMP, MWC and RPV. They operate within CI: Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN), USA. The data set is collected from 01 July 2018 till 31 July 2019 and all seismic events with a magnitude Mw?4 are excluded. Our main goal is to find the effects of seismic noise synchronization between different seismic stations using data relevant to the vertical seismic components. The width of the multifractal spectrum, the spectral exponent and...

The structural design of concrete structures needs to result in qualities ensuring structural safety and serviceability, together with durability, robustness, sustainability and resilience. Due to this, the effects of mechanical load, environmental load and even social coherence need to be reflected and included in the formulation of limit states. This is a complex matter involving the time factor, service life, degradation effects, modelling, probability analyses, limit states, costs and other phenomena, and it i...

Purified natural clinoptilolite as well as clinoptilolite converted into hydrogen and sodium form have been contacted with 0.1 mol/L silver nitrate solution at a ratio solid to liquid equal to 1 to 20, in order to load silver ions (Ag+) on the zeolite support. It has been found that sodium modified clinoptilolite exchanged in highest degree Ag+ ions, followed by natural zeolite. Preliminary transformation of natural clinoptilolite into hydrogen form leads to decreasing of zeolite ability to bind Ag+ ions. The kine...

The Yamal Peninsula is one of the most important strategic oil and gas-bearing regions of Russia. Active development of the Far North territories threatens to have negative consequences for the delicate balance of Northern ecosystems, therefore their monitoring and comprehensive research are particularly relevant. In 2012-2013 during the expeditions on the Yamal, Yavay and Gyda peninsulas bottom sediments of the Unnamed lake (57.5 cm; 1300 cal yr BP), located in the catchment area of the Pyasedayakha river, were s...

Currently there are many spatial structures for storing information about raster and vector maps. There are many algorithms for calculating map information, each of which is applicable to a specific industry. Now there is a problem of the lack of a universal algorithm for obtaining information about the maps, which will allow you to store its scale, time of image creation, deformation, various rotations and other topological features of objects in the images. The article sets the task of developing a method for ex...

Proper and accurate accounting of ecosystem accounts is increasingly central to our social and economic lives. Of particular importance are the information for water, air, forests, and soils. This information should be collected both territorially and in monetary terms. Therefore, the creation of accounts containing this information is necessary. This will allow for static and dynamic analysis of the collected information for a certain period of time. The purpose of this article is to cover the accounts on which t...

The article notes that at present the competition in the global hydrocarbon market has intensified significantly. This is due to the complication of mining and geological conditions of occurrence of oil and gas layers, depletion of reserves in traditional production regions, geopolitical reasons. In this situation, the development of digital technologies may become a tool to increase the efficiency of oil and gas assets. The article formulates the aims of creating a single digital environment of the oil and gas co...

The hydrological processes are very complex and the hydrological and hydraulic models are the main components of the flood forecasting and warning systems. They identify the dominant hydrological processes which influence water balance and result in conditions of extreme hydrological events. A variety of hydrological models exist nowadays. In this study the physically-based, fully distributed hydrological TOPKAPI (TOPographic Kinematic APproximation and Integration) model was applied on Aytoska river catchment. Th...

In the portuguese section of the Central Iberian Zone, the Guimaraes region hosts a wide diversity of plutonic variscan lithologies including biotite-rich granitoids and vaugnerites. Vaugnerite outcrops occur as small bodies, typically enclosed by the main regional granite (the coarse-grained, biotite-rich, porphyritic Guimaraes and Santo Tirso monzogranite). Mafic enclaves of vaugnerites can also be identified in the host granite. The granitoids are peraluminous (ASI = 1.10 ? 1.15), having crystallized from melts...

The drilling muds parameters are playing a major role in drilling technology and particularly in oil and gas drilling technology. At present those parameters are measured manually at long and irregular time intervals. In Satpajev university a general method of the existing manual measurements automatization has been worked. A number of patents on appliances for automatic continuous measuring the drilling mud funnel viscosity, density, jell stress and other parameters was obtained. Engineering development on creati...

Mobile mapping systems (MMS) are becoming used in standard geodetic tasks more common in the last years. This paper deals with independent accuracy evaluation of MMS RIEGL VMX-450, and recommendation for which types of tasks is effective to use tested MMS. Data from mobile laser scanning and mobile photogrammetry obtained by tested system were evaluated. The new test point field was built in area of Advanced Materials, Structures and Technologies (AdMaS) research centre that is part of Brno University of Technolog...

In the last years, Romania has suffered large-scale flooding with large areas of land affected by floods, causing major infrastructure damage and leaving behind a significant number of deaths. Climate change and the high frequency of dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena manifested by torrential rains of special intensity produce flash-flood on watercourses due to the rapid concentration of leakage on slopes. These phenomena characterize the vast majority of river basins in Galati County. The pilot area chosen f...

Rockfalls are very common in Romania and represent a severe threat due to their high propagation velocity that, independently from the volumes involved, can be extremely dangerous to people and any civil engineering works like dams, roads, and adjacent buildings. Therefore, it is necessary to preliminary identify those areas most prone to this type of process to pursue territorial planning with an awareness of hazards and risks [1]. Tarnita Dam is located in Cluj County, on the left bank of Tarnita Lake/ Reservoir...

The coastal retreat in touristic areas concerns many sectors along the Romanian Black Sea shore; it usually requires programmes for beach nourishment, and consequently, large amounts of proper sand are necessary to be available for such activities. In order to minimize the effort for searching offshore sand, we conducted seismo-acoustics researches and some other archived data have been used during these researches, both for planning the sea works and during the integrated interpretation of the data. The results o...

The determination of the physical and mechanical parameters and properties of the soil is an important part of the design of geotechnical structures. The soil characteristics can be specified by laboratory or field testing. In Slovakia, one of the common field tests, used for determination of the soil characteristics during the engineering geological investigation, is the dynamic penetration test. In 20th century, the dynamic penetration test passed through substantial development and simultaneously, the correlati...

One of the main obstacles in the agribusiness sector is the lack of interest in the field. Indeed, given the laborious working conditions, it has become increasingly challenging to attract the interest of workers into agriculture. In spite of the fact that the agribusiness sector offers products that meet the basic needs of the population, and therefore plays a pivotal socio-economic role in many regions around the world, the sector faces difficult working conditions, which is an extremely important socio-economic...

In the present article, based on the analysis and identification of the problems related to the socio-economic development of the border municipalities between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Serbia, an attempt is made to identify the main problems in forming policies to improve cross-border cooperation and achieving a balanced socio-economic development that will slow down the rate of population decline in the municipalities in question. The role of the local self-government bodies and the opportunit...

In modern society, in most areas of activity, information technologies are actively being introduced, which has been facilitated by their powerful development over the past decades. The development of the technical equipment of the modern army, the increasing preponderance towards information wars, led to the fact that the defense sphere was no exception. Most of the important information technologies used by the military are based on means of processing digital information about the terrain and methods for collec...

The present article deals with the issues regarding the impact process at the impact of the material onto an enclosed conveyor belt supported by an impact bed consisting of impact rods at the feeding site. The theory of the impact process is based on the following preconditions: the whole impact process and the related processes are only performed at the impact site; the rock block is of relatively small dimensions compared to the conveyor dimensions; the impact bed is absolutely rigid; the conveyor belt is absolu...

Numerous geological observations indicate that alluvial deposits (gold, tin, diamonds, polymetalles, etc.) have a cluster structure, both in general and in local areas. Up to 80 ? 90 % of the reserves of useful components can be contained in 10 ? 25 % of the volume of traditionally recovered sands. The purpose of the study is to assess the extent and nature of the clustering of reserves in dredged gold deposits. Main methods of researches: analysis and generalization of information of the features on the structure...

In this article, we systematize the main methodological approaches, used in Russia and abroad to the assessment of the accumulated environmental damage. The authors of the study also used the enlarged assessment method to calculate the economic assessment of the accumulated environmental damage around the Komsomolsk gold recovery plant. Input data were obtained by empirical measurements, which were obtained by employees of The Geo-Electrochemistry Laboratory of the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum-Gas Geology and G...

The idea of the Hercynian Paleozoic age of the Turanian platform foundation is widespread among geologists, giving way to an opinion of its having no prospects for oil and gas. New seismic and geological data obtained in the south of the Turanian platform, within the South Mangyshlak downfold system in Kazakhstan and the Asseke-audan trough in Uzbekistan, support the authors? idea on a new Paleozoic floor promising oil and gas in this area. Results of the analysis and comparison of the well sections prove the regi...

The emissions of indoor nitrogen oxides have increased during the last period. Thorough knowledge of the interactions of individual influencing factors to nitrogen oxides pollutions in the indoor working environment provides guarantees of comfort, hygiene, and health for future manufacture buildings performance and production. A comprehensive assessment of the environmental safety of the working environment through appropriate analyses of transfer processes, impact rates, and interaction relationships must become ...

The study was conducted during 2015 in the region of Rahovec in Kosovo. The aim of the study was to identify weed species, the impact of total herbicides dose, and mechanical weed control on the floristic composition in vineyards. Two different total herbicides with different doses in a randomized block design were applied in the vineyard, namely Basta (a.i glyphosinat-amonium) and Touch-down (a.i glyphosate), and two additional treatments included mechanical weed control and the control treatment (without herbici...

Different natural and man-made hazards lead to the loss of millions of hectares of forest every year; sustainable forest management, which will decrease or prevent loss, is vitally important for our planet?s health. Sustainable forest management in the Russian Federation implies the effective multi-purpose use of forest resources, which involves implementing preventive and reforestation measures. However, the forest extends over vast territories, which complicates the work of determining the state of the system as...

The problems and challenges which contemporary world faces set the leading idea of ?sustainable development? as key aspect of geographic education. In the paper is used the well-known definition for sustainable development ? development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As a result of these tendencies, it can be pointed out three very important concepts in geography didactic ? environmental education, global study and education for s...

This study is investigating the influences and effects of the chaotic exploitation of mineral aggregates and its direct impact on the evolutionary forms of the Siret River. The study is important due to the decommissioning of agricultural land caused by river erosion in the area of Gala?i County. After the comparative analysis of the new topographic plan with the old soil map, we identified how the area, exploited by private companies in order to extract mineral aggregates, i.e. sand and gravel mostly used in the ...

The main, officially regulated, stages of creating and maintenance of a cadastral map are presented. Accentuation is placed on the technology, used for measurement of cadastral objects during the last recent decades. A comparison between the technological potential of Terrestrial Laser Scanning - technology and the legally approved technologies is done. Practical experiments for determining of the applicability of the Terrestrial Laser Scanning ? technology for the purposes of the cadaster are implemented. Surveys...

Energy, which determines the progress of social production, continues to have an adverse impact on the environment. The result of any energy entity is to provide consumers with high-performance ecologically pure kind of energy that objectively defines influence of industrial activities of energy companies on the environment: emissions of pollutants into the atmospheric air, effluents of polluting substances in water objects, placing of production wastes, and also negative effects of noise, heat, vibration, electro...

Cases of breakthrough on conveyors belt occur very often during the transport of heavy material in surface mines. The annual cost of their repairs in the Czech Republic is around two million euros. Therefore, we expected a constructional solution for impact points, which would reduce the dynamics of impacts and thus prevent to destroy the conveyors. In addition to reducing the number of punctures on conveyor belts, there has also been a significant reduction in dust in the area of transfer points. This article the...

Human impact along with other elements of the environment has a great impact on the processes in the river basins. River meander dynamics and mobility are important indicators of environmental change related to climate changes and anthropogenic activities at local and river basin scales. This paper presents a study of spatial and temporal changes meandering Alazani (Georgia) in its middle stream and downstream. Alazani is the border of the country and the bank erosion here has the environmental and political impor...

Currently, many researchers around the world have been focused on applying existing natural resources beside artificial and agricultural waste in RCC mixtures for dam construction to improve the properties of the resulting concrete, produce a greener RCC, and therefore, to protect surrounding environment. The aim of this experimental study is to estimate and compare pozzolanic activity of some active mineral additives used in roller compacted concrete for dam construction by using saturated lime solution method. T...

Legislative changes within the circular economy package, initiated by the European Union and in the process of incorporation into the legislation of the Czech Republic, lead to a ban on landfill after 2024. More precisely, these changes lead to a significant reduction of landfill, with tons of landfilled waste. The aim of the changes is to reduce the landfilling of municipal waste to a maximum of 10% in 2035, to prohibit landfilling of recoverable waste (mixed municipal waste) and to increase the recycling of muni...

Modern society receives 93% of food products owing to the fertile soils. Today, the areas of fertile soils decreases gradually, while the world population increases. Soil degradation is a global process, the problem, which worries all countries of the world more or less. Soil degradation in Georgia is the result of the climate-relief peculiarities, activity of geodynamic processes, uncontrolled forest felling and inappropriate agricultural practice (incorrect irrigation, melioration, excess use of pesticides and m...

Increased pollution of water resources leads to a deterioration of surface water and groundwater quality, and it initiates the application of various methods for water treatment. Adsorption on a suitable adsorption material is the most frequently used methods in water treatment. Adsorption processes are based on the adsorption of contaminants on the surface of an adsorption material. The molecules of the contaminant pass from the water environment to the solid adsorbent. Oxides, oxyhydroxides and hydroxide contain...

The paper presents the results of a study of the paramagnetic activity of humic acids of peat and sapropels of a vertical profile. Samples were taken near the Mukhrino field station located in the Ob-Irtysh interfluve. The article gives the botanical composition of the studied peat. G-factors were determined for the first 8 samples of HA. The g-factors of the studied HA are close to the g-factor of a free electron (2, 00230) and range within g = 2.00360±0.00015. The number of paramagnetic centers in the samples wa...