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Boggy deposits of the West Siberian Plain central are widespread covering min. 2/3 of the surface (excluding the floodplain) [1]. They are developed on all relief elements forming major wetlands, and their largest areas coincide with the I and II terraces raising above the floodplain of the Ob and its main feeders. Considering the Upper Pleistocene period, we will be concerned with MIS 3 deposits studied in the Kiryas section. In the beginning of MIS 2 (22-25 ths. years), the processes of deposition and peat accum...

Baltic Sea countries (Latvia, Estonia and Finland) are attracting more and more Japanese tourists during previous years. There are several reasons for this tendency ? the Baltic Sea region is safer in compared to Central and Western Europe and offers broad tourism opportunities. High potential exists in the Japanese tourism market in terms of rural tourism in Latvia, Estonia and Finland - in 2018 the number of Japanese overseas traveling reached 19 million, showing increase by 6% over 2017. The traveling patterns ...

The significant impact of the mining industry on the environment is associated with the storage of ore processing wastes characterized by a low potential for self-overgrowing due to wind and water erosion, lack of structure and low moisture capacity of fine-dispersed waste substances. In order to conserve the stored ore processing waste and reduce their negative environmental impact, the Mining Institute has developed a technology that ensures the formation of sustainable grass sod without applying a topsoil layer...

In 2018, the Cassini spacecraft discovered macromolecular (above 200 atomic mass units) petroleum-like organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. This breakthroug requires revision of the traditional geochemical correlations "composition-oil origin" according to the biogenic theory. We studied the hydrocarbon composition variations in oil samples and their change over time in the consistency of recovered oil during well exploitation on the territory of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (W...

The paper deals with petrology of granitoids from the Istekh ore field in northeast Yakutia accompanied by complex Au-Ag-Sn-W mineralization. Magmatism of the ore field is represented by the Istekh granitoid massif, a series of granite and rhyolite porphyry dikes, and rare dikes of diorite porphyry and trachydolerite. A polygenetic nature of the massif is documented, with origination of parental melts of the amphibole-biotite granodiorites and granites from the lower and upper crustal protoliths, respectively, und...

The aim of this project was to create a detailed 3D model of Permian clay laminations. Modern image processing methods and wavelet analysis were used for 3D visualization, identification of the nature of laminations and calculation of mean and interval sedimentation rates. The images used in this project are the photographs of a clay sample taken from an outcrop of ?linguloid? clays. First, two faces of the sample were sanded and polished to the shine. Then the polished surfaces were scanned and photographed. Imag...

The aim of this study is monitoring of quality of drinking water in Tirana city for physical and chemicals properties according the International standards that applied in Albania. In some case water don?t fulfill the permeable levels for drinking due to high levels of ammonium or nitrates. This situation may cause many human health problems. Samples were collect from tap and private wells water. The total of 90 analyzed samples during May to September 2018. All samples are collected in accordance with chemical ru...

The phytoremediation represents an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical decontamination of sites degraded by various anthropogenic activities. The dendroremediation abilities of some tree species can be combined with the production of the woody biomass for energy purposes. The aim of the paper was to determine the phytoextraction efficiency of total arsenic (As) by two varieties of short rotation coppice willows. The research was conducted in a pot experiment. Dormant cuttings of the varieties were pla...

Pile-soil kinematic interaction arises because of the soil deformations induced by seismic actions. These deformations interact with the pile foundation and can cause severe bending moments that may exceed the flexural capacity of the pile section. The highest bending moments occur at the interface of two adjacent soil layers having a high stiffness contrast and at the pile-head in the case of fixed-head pile. Most of seismic codes recommend assessing the kinematic bending in high seismicity areas for important (i...

Owing to the increasing influence of humans, many species have invaded and continue to invade new regions at an unprecedented rate, exerting strong impacts on ecosystems and human welfare. Invasive species are a major threat to community composition and ecosystem processes worldwide and a major aim in ecology is their identification of invasiveness and their direct and indirect impact on biodiversity of ecosystems. Recent studies on invasive species have revealed a wide variety of their impact on soil systems, nat...

The discharge with a liquid cathode between the electrode and the surface of the liquid is a promising object of study, both in terms of the applicability of such discharges in plasma-chemical technologies, and in terms of green synthesis and lack of knowledge of mechanisms of plasma-chemical interactions with the organic substances. The characteristic of plasma was measured with the methods of emission spectroscopy. Electrical parameters of the discharge were also measured. The plasma-chemical synthesis carried o...

The settlement system in the regions of Russia is changing due to the influence of neoliberal urbanization processes and of the economic, social and institutional areas of society. Changes lead to structural shifts in settlement and to the arising of polarization. The main goals of this study were to analyse the results of changes in the settlement system of the Belgorod Region, to identify the causes of polarization, to assess the types of suburbanization and the development of gentrification processes in large c...

The article presents the results of the studies (in 2018 and 2019) of the level of accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) ? the most toxic compounds from the number of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the snow cover (SC) of the territory of Almaty agglomeration, area of about 940 thousand hectares. The contamination of PCB SC has been established, especially in urban areas and adjacent to large industrial hubs. In snow samples up to 29 individual PCB congeners are identified, which is an indicator...

Aragonite and calcite were identified among the daughter phases within secondary melt inclusions in rock-forming olivines and among interstitial minerals in sheared garnet peridotite xenoliths from kimberlites of the Udachnaya diamond deposit (Siberian Craton, Russia). This type of the xenoliths are the deepest mantle rocks sampled by kimberlite magma from 180?230 km depth. According to experimental data, aragonite is a high-pressure polymorph of CaCO3, which is stable at upper mantle pressures and temperatures. T...

The Upper Devonian shales are predominantly carbonate, carbonate-siliceous thin-layer rocks with a high content of organic matter. Considered formation is widespread within the Volga-Ural and Timan-Pechora basins in the European part of Russia. Various estimations show that the hydrocarbon resources of the Upper Devonian shales range between hundreds of millions to billions of tons of oil. However, recovery of such hydrocarbons is significantly constrained due to the high heterogeneity and complex structure of roc...

Nowadays a major issue in managing the industrialized/logistic zones is represented by the environment protection. Circular economy or industrial ecology can be a sustainable model. The challenge for the economic actors of the Danube is the promotion of an Eco-friendly mode of transportation. The port administration and port operators should find solutions to implement an industrial ecology regime. Adapting an Eco-innovative solution should contribute on the number of the additional partners and clients. This cont...

Due to their properties and low production costs, plastics have replaced a number of construction materials and are being used more and more. To maximize the potential of plastics at the final stage of their life, you need to choose the right way to manage the resulting waste. In accordance with Circular Economy, the first form of using this waste should be material recycling, energy recovery may be an alternative to this method of management. It is unacceptable that in the era of today's technology this type of w...

In the development of a sustainable society and an active approach to environmental protection, it is essential to focus on building energy efficiency and its increasing. Within the member states of the European Union, the process of increasing the energy performance of buildings is ensured by increasing the requirements for new buildings through legal and technical standards. This process is supported financially by various EU funding programs. One of the useful helpers in spreading awareness of the energy perfor...

The contribution focused on the investigation of the potential in making use of the mining assets that in the past have been employed in extraction and processing mineral wealth of the Spis region. One of the possibilities is in employing them as part of mining tourism, a less traditional form of experience-based tourism. The region abounds in a great number of unique old-time mining works offering a high potential for preserving objects of underground mining, establishing open-air museums, educational paths as pa...

A total of 13.2 million tons of poultry meat were produced in 2017 in the European Union, with Poland?s contribution to that production being the greatest (17.7%). The amount of poultry manure generated in Poland is estimated to be on a level of 3.2 to 3.5 million tons per year. Such a significant mass of waste constitutes a problem for the environment. Due to its properties and the scale of the problem, the management of poultry manure still constitutes a major challenge as well as a field for research. Poultry m...

The construction of high-pressure gas pipelines is an extremely expensive and logistically difficult engineering project. The basic methods of building gas pipelines include laying them in an open excavation. However, this technology is very harmful to the natural environment and sometimes even impossible to apply. In such cases, the latest technological solutions should be used, i.e. trenchless technologies such as Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD). The paper presents a method of evaluating the efficiency and...

The paper covers the development, research and numerical implementation the complex of interrelated mathematical models of hydrophysics and biological kinetics on a supercomputer for predictive modeling of pollution spreading processes in boundary atmosphere and water layers at increasing the anthropogenic influence, climatic and industrial challenges, and occurrence of eliminating contingencies of technogenic or natural characters. Discrete analogues of developed model problems of water ecology, included in the d...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the data recorded on instrumented structures in Bucharest and adjacent free-field seismic stations during the last moderate earthquake that occurred on 28th of October 2018 in the Vrancea seismic zone. The earthquake had a 5.5 moment-magnitude, a depth of 147.8 km, and it was felt on a large area of Romania, generating very little damage in Bucharest. In the last five years, the National Institute for Earth Physics has deployed permanent instrumentation (accelerometers) a...

Low velocity compressional wave (P-wave), Vp values, have been observed from the lunar geophysical measurements made during the Apollo 14, 16 and 17 missions. These low velocities are attributed to lack of water, low soil compaction as well as the non-consolidated nature of the regolith. The microgravity lunar regolith simulant velocity experiment (?-SVeLSE) aims to determine if there is any dependence of gravitational force on the seismic longitudinal velocity measurements and thus correlate with data previously ...

The preliminary palynological results of analysis a 524 cm long continuous sediments core from the Lake Big Miassovo (South Urals, Russia) are presented. The core was collected in July 2018 from central part of the lake from a depth of 24 m. Palynological stratigraphy has been divided into four pollen zones on the basis on changing pollen abundances and taxa composition. The predominance of Betula pendula, Pinus sylvestris and Artemisia pollen in sediments has been established. The prevalence of desert plants (Art...

The article highlights the main problems of the mineral and raw resources replenishment in Russia, and gives recommendations on how to stimulate it. In recent years, in the general structure of reserves for the majority of minerals, the share of proven and prepared for mining reserves has significantly increased, while the share of estimated reserves and estimated resources has decreased. The work used analytical, abstract-logical and comparative methods of research. The key idea is that the development and purpos...

The present Article discusses recent successive processes dynamics in naturally renovated secondary phytocenosis of landslided territories of rich and diverse mountainous Adjara region. The comparative analysis of soil cover productivity level, floristic composition and cenotic structure of secondary phytocenosis and alongside slopes are made for identification of successive serial stage. The researches show that at lifeless substrates of landslided slopes, phytocenotic structure is formed with gradual establishme...

The article will attempt to highlight the contemporary problems faced by local selfgovernment in the conduct of environmental policy in the administrative-territorial units. The role of the administrative and territorial units in the organization, management and control of the implementation of the environmental policy in the municipality will be presented in accordance with the areas of competence and the possessions. We will also try to outline the distribution of the responsibilities of the local authorities an...

The goal of this paper is to highlight problems of development modern approaches to design the ecological innovation systems on different levels of organization. There is investigation the role of environmental innovations in solving some ecological and economic problems for providing ecological safety and sustainable development. The functional model of the environmental innovation system has been developed. This model is based on system approach and analysis of innovation process. The unified structure of the gl...

An increasing proportion of waste in megapolicies belongs to food waste, including waste of food industries and catering. Currently, this type of waste is practically not processed in Russia and disposed in landfills. However, technologies for food waste processing are known and include composting, accelerated anaerobic digestion, biogas production, etc. This paper discusses the innovative technology of food waste use in the form of a substrate for growing black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) to produce melanin...

Production of energy carriers that can be conveniently transported and used in the energy, transport, and chemical industry and of materials to be used in chemical synthesis from the available stock of plant biomass and wood is one of the vital tasks enabling the 6th wave of innovation and technology, as biomasses are the natural converters of solar energy into recyclable solid. George Olah has shown that methanol is a universal product for the large-scale industrial production of necessary energy carriers and che...

Gelnica is a town in the Kosice Region of Eastern Slovakia. It is located in the northern part of the Slovak Ore Mountains, in the Hnilec river valley, which flows a few kilometers downstream into Hornad. The town lies at the both banks of Hnilec, has an altitude of 375 meters and is located around 38 kilometers from Kosice. Gelnica is a city with rich mining history and by precisely utilizing its history we can develop tourism in the region. Beside history there is beautiful nature around the city, which offers m...

The Caspian region possesses a great potential in revealing of new deposits of oil shale. To date, there are five fields identified of this hydrocarbon type confined to the Volga tier of the Upper Jurassic period: West Shagan, Black Zaton, Tuksai, New Alexeyev and Karatobe. Their productive strata expose to daylight surface on slopes of salt domes. Regionally, these deposits belong to the Volga shale basin, most of which is located in the territory of Russia. Large deposits of oil shale with high technological ind...

The market for electricity production from renewable sources is characterized by very high dynamics of change. This applies not only to total output power, but also to technological changes in waste production and management. Proper planning should prove to be a key issue for implementing the circular economy. Proper environmental assessment is a very important part of the decision-making process. Usually, we used current data to assess the environmental impact. In a rapidly changing environment, this can lead to ...

This paper presents the problem of solar energy conversion into electricity using photovoltaic cells. The mathematical study of PV cells could be made by two models: single diode model and double diode model. By connecting in series several PV cells a PV module is obtained. Small PV power generators are made by connecting multiple PV modules to form a PV array. Photovoltaic panels can be arranged in various configurations. Beside the insolation level (G) and ambient temperature (T), the PV cell power output depend...

In this paper we have analysed the existing methods of pest and disease field control on the basis of solar powered equipment and apparatus. The necessity of the presented research came from the considered problem of crop losses and reduction of product quality. We have highlighted the advantages of using the electrophysical method for monitoring the number and type of insect pests. The novel construction of the light trap is a three-ring, three-slot and single-slit for monitoring the number and species of insects...

At the moment tourism industry in Europe and the whole world is undergoing significant changes: tourist travel habits are changing, the importance of environmental quality is increasing, the use of e-commerce is increasing, the variety and number of tourism products is increasing, and new tourism destinations are emerging. Considering the globalization processes and intensified competition, Latvia needs to identify its competitive advantages in developing tourism products and environment with greater sustainable d...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics from the winter solstice 22.12.2013 to 21.12.2014 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification of stable regularities (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, 2917WMO_ID=27485). The sample capacity was 2917 rows. The correlation coefficient increased to 0.5065, which is more than 0.4583 for a seven-year data set. The ranking of the factors changed only for depend...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics for the vegetation period of birch leaves from 01.05.2014 to 30.09.2014 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification of stable regularities (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, 2917WMO_ID=27485). Power sample consisted of 1222 of the row. The correlation coefficient 0.4677 is less than 0.5065 for the year between winter solstices, but slightly more than 0.458...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics from 01.01.2012 to 31.10.2018 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, WMO_ID=27485). Power selection when accounting periods of the growing season of birch from 01.05 till 30.09 made 8558 instead 19713 lines in comparison with the continuous series, while there have been significant changes in the laws. The coefficien...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics from 01.01.2012 to 31.10.2018 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification of stable regularities (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, WMO_ID=27485). The sampling rate was 19713 lines. It is proved that pair connections allow to study quanta of weather behavior for different periods of time: long-term, annual, seasonal and period of plant ontogenesis. There a...

The Central Anatolia Basement Units (CABU) have several mafic and felsic characterized magmatic systems which are associated with the closure of the Neotethys during the Late Mesozoic. Gucunkaya gabbro is located to the southern part of Agacoren Intrusive to the North East of Aksaray in Central Anatolia. Field and petrographic studies show that the mafic products of the area are mainly composed of two main units as a gabro and diorite. The gabbro and the diorite cut by fine crystalline gabbro, diorite porphyry, fi...

In this paper the author answers the question about competitiveness of post-industrial areas against undeveloped land. The analysis concerns potential consequences related to the investment on former industrial areas and undeveloped areas usually located in suburbs or in city?s outskirts. In the research potential different costs were examined: social, economic, environmental and spatial costs of the investment of the two mentioned types of sites. The results shows that there is a number of negative phenomena in p...

Problems occurring in post-industrial areas constitute large issue in social, economic, spatial as well as ecological point of view. According to research of National Institute for Spatial Policy and Housing post-industrial areas occupy 4% of urbanized areas is Polish cities. Poland among European countries is one with the biggest percentage of post-industrial areas in cities. In the context of large scale of degradation of cities re-use of former industrial areas ? brownfields - is one of the challenges of ration...

In the Permian sediments of the Volga-Ural oil and gas province (east of the East European Platform) occurs layers of tar sands and sandstones. They are confined to the Sheshmian horizon of the Ufimian stage. Currently, bituminous deposits are being developed as high-viscosity oils. The internal structure of high-viscosity oil fields is very complex due to the combination of a large number of sedimentation and post-sedimentation processes, caused, among other things, by the influence of the oil substance. An impor...

The negative phenomenon of suburbanisation has been observed around the globe for many years. One of the methods of counteracting the process is directing the city?s development inward, improving the urban planning parameters, and using areas potentially attractive in terms of location but in need of new management. They are among others post-industrial areas, frequently characterised by a considerable degree of degradation (brownfields). The objective of the article is the determination of the potential of degrad...

In the context of the aggravation of global contradictions in the interaction of man and nature, environmental consciousness must respond quickly and adequately to the situation, outstrip threatening events and seek ways to overcome environmental disruptions and harmonize relations in the supersystem «nature». These challenges encourage the natural and human sciences to create for man a new knowledge, which would be based on the laws of human development, as part of nature, and the principles of value-semantic pro...

Pollution of the environment as a result of human activity has become one of the most important problems of our time. Undoubtedly, in the twenty-first century, the development of civilization will be under increasing pressure from the environmental aspect. The use of waste becomes a permanent function of social production, expands the raw material base, preserves non-renewable sources of primary raw materials, prevents environmental pollution, provides a significant economic effect by saving current costs and inve...

Natural zeolites are able to remove lower concentrations of contaminants present in groundwater and drinking water through ion-exchange process. The main objectives of this work were: (1) to determine the efficiency of different types of regenerants: NaOH 0.5 M, NaCl 0.5 M, NaClO 0.5 M and NaClO:NaCl (1:1) 0.5 M; (2) to investigate the effect of initial pH (5.7 - 11.7) and molarity (0.5 - 1 M) of the regenerants; and (3) to determine the removal capacity of natural zeolite for ammonium removal after ten (10) sorpt...

The scale of geological events sets the system of spatial-time coordinates underlying modern natural science concepts. This determines the relevance of projects aimed at creating a network of field training polygons, providing geological practices and geological education of the population, the development of cognitive geological tourism. Localization of polygons determines the complexity of the geological structure of the territory, the presence of outcrops of igneous and sedimentary rocks of different ages, tect...