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Jun Dong, Qingqing Chen, Guangxiang Yuan and Kaiyan Xie
In large-scale water conservancy and hydropower projects, complex rock structures are considered to be the main factor controlling the stability of hydraulic structures. The classification of rock mass structure plays an important role in the safety of a...
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Benjamin W. Tobin, Benjamin V. Miller, Matthew L. Niemiller and Andrea M. Erhardt
Karst aquifers are unique among groundwater systems because of variable permeability and flow-path organization changes resulting from dissolution processes. Over time, changes in flow-path connectivity complicate interpretations of conduit network evolu...
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Meen-Wah Gui and Ravendra P. Rajak
Soil nailing is a prevalent and cost-effective technique employed to reinforce and enhance the stability of precarious natural or cut slopes; however, its application as a primary support system to prevent collapses or cave-ins during foundation excavati...
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Marco Chimenti, Stefano Natali, Roberto Giannecchini, Giovanni Zanchetta, Ilaria Baneschi, Marco Doveri, Ilaria Isola and Leonardo Piccini
This article presents data from monthly monitoring carried out on cave and stream waters belonging to the Renella Cave karst system from September 2020 to April 2022. Additionally, old data pertaining to cave waters from previous published work are discu...
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Gaetano Robustelli and Federica Lucà
Shelter caves serve as crucial repositories that provide valuable insights into Late Pleistocene?Holocene depositional mechanisms and environmental changes. In this study, we conducted a stratigraphic analysis of the easternmost cave-fill succession with...
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Jasmine Rimani, Giordana Bucchioni, Andrea Dan Ryals, Nicole Viola and Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez
The lunar lava tubes are envisioned as possible hosting structures for a human base in the Moon?s equatorial regions, providing shelter from radiations, micrometeoroids, and temperature excursion. A first robotic mission is set to scout the habitability ...
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Tamiru A. Abiye
Dolomitic aquifers are regarded as important groundwater storage sites in South Africa. Since these aquifers occur in a semi-arid climatic setting with low rainfall, often characterized by a torrential downpour and high potential evapotranspiration, the ...
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Jesús F. Jordá Pardo, David Álvarez-Alonso, María de Andrés-Herrero, Daniel Ballesteros, Pilar Carral, Aitor Hevia-Carrillo, Jorge Sanjurjo, Santiago Giralt and Montserrat Jiménez-Sánchez
El Olivo Cave (Pruvia de Arriba, Llanera, Asturias, Spain) is a small karst cave located in the Aboño River basin and formed in the Cretaceous limestone of the Mesozoic cover of the Cantabrian Mountains (north of the Iberian Peninsula). It contains an im...
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Serena D?Arcangelo, Fátima Martín-Hernández and Josep M. Parés
The cave system in the Sierra de Atapuerca holds one of the most important archaeological sites for the understanding of early human occupation in Europe. Among the different cavities and galleries, the Gran Dolina cave yielded a new hominin species coin...
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Stefano Furlani, Fabrizio Antonioli, Emanuele Colica, Sebastiano D?Amico, Stefano Devoto, Pietro Grego and Timmy Gambin
Sea caves are a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea. The coastal scenery of the Gozitan coast is very interesting in that sea caves and other coastal landforms, such as sea arches, develop at the sea level. We mapped seventy-nine ...
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