Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. However, unlike for plants and animals,
a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation is still lacking. This hampers our …

Bedrock property quantification is critical for predicting the hydrological response of
watersheds to climate disturbances. Estimating bedrock hydraulic properties over watershed …

Understanding fluid flow in rock fractures is relevant to many engineering applications,
including underground nuclear waste disposition, oil and gas exploitation, dam and slope …

Heat transfer in jointed rock masses exhibits characteristics of discontinuous,
heterogeneous, and anisotropic due to the effects of rock discontinuities. In this work …

The nature and rippability conditions (rock mass quality [RMQ]) of the near-surface lithologic
units of Batu Maung, Penang Island, Malaysia, were investigated to develop sustainable …

Many fractures are present in the crust and dominate fluid flow and mass transport. This
study proposes a fractal model of permeability for fractured rock masses that includes fractal …

A new method combining analytical and numerical tools is developed for evaluating the
inflow rate to an underground tunnel that is excavated in a fractured rock mass. The method …

The data for the 285.5 m high Xiluodu reservoir arch dam, China's second-largest, from
2012 to 2021 was monitored and analyzed to assess river valley contraction deformation …

This study used eight empirical equations such as Kozeny-Carman (KC), Terzaghi, Hazen,
Slitcher, Kruger, Sauerbrei, NAVFACDM7, and Zamarin to estimate saturated hydraulic …

The variability and inter-influence of individual geometric parameters make permeability
evaluation of fractured rocks based on fracture geometric characteristics challenging …