H: Environment & Environmental geology

H: Environment & Environmental geology (119)

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The petrographic and geochemical study of sandstones of Eze-Aku Formation (Turonian) outcropping in Ugep area southern Benue Trough Nigeria was carried out to ascertain the sandstone provenance and tectonic setting. Field studies show that the sandones occur in linear, parallel northeast-southwest trending ridges alternating with shale sequence. The sandstone facies show coarsening upwar...
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Authors Igwe E. O., Amoke G. U., Ngwu C. N.
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Page No. 33 to 40

The study of the water quality of to daraisingh tehsil of tonk district, rajasthan india has carried out to assess the risk to human health. A comparative study has also been done in the premonsoon and postmonsoon periods considering the change in various parameters and concentraton of differentions. It has been found that the concentration of ions in premonsoon period is higher than pos...
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Authors Ashok Kumar Yadav, Praveen Khan
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Page No. 23 to 32

A comparative study was carried out in two different valleys of Ganga river system viz; Alaknanda and Bhagirathi. In both of valleys total 134 species with 118 genera and 56 families were recorded. Poaceae was the dominant family representing maximum (11) number of species followed by Asteraceae (10) Fabaceae (9) and Lamiaceae (9). In different vegetation strata a total of 39 species wer...
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Authors Vikaspal Singh, V.jhaldiyal, S.Dasgupta, D.S.Chauhan, N.P.Todaria
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Page No. 15 to 22

Studies related to the valuation of urban environmental amenities like water bodies, green spaces and clean air are very scarce in developing countries. The present study is a first of its kind in India where Hedonic Pricing Method (HPM) has been used to study the impact of key environmental attributes like proximity of an urban lake having good water quality, parks/gardens, clean air an...
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Authors Pradeep Chaudhry, M.P.Sharma, G.Singh, Arun Bansal
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Page No. 1 to 13

The need to guide the land users on the appropriate usage of land and fertility maintenance is very imperative in addressing food sufficiency. Thus, a study was conducted to investigate the erroneous belief by local farmers’ that soil colour can effectively predict soil productivity. Three land use types namely: arable cropping (land use 1), oil palm (land use 2), and se...
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Authors Senjobi, B. A., Adejuyigbe, C. O., Ande, O. T., Oyegoke, C.O, Ogunkunle, A. O.
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Page No. 31 to 40

Complex system design is increasingly adopting on risk and reliability analysis. Approach population and urban development expand in landscape island countries or countries with long coastlines, city planners and engineers resort to land reclamation to ease the pressure on existing heavily-used land and underground spaces using risk based design. Risk based design has also been used on s...
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Authors Dr. Sulaiman O.O., Sakinah N., Amagee A., Bahrain Z., Kader A.S.A., Adi M., Othman K., Ahmad M.F.
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Page No. 1 to 18

The shipping industry is responsible for the carriage of 90% of world trade. Thus, it remains the most energy efficient mode of transport. Shipping is expected to have greater impact on global warming considering size of vessel plying the world ocean. The Green House Gas (GHG) emissions are the main air pollutants in maritime transportation. In 2007, COâ‚‚ emission from th...
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Authors Dr. O. O. Sulaiman, N. I. Akmar, B. Michel, N. Stark, H. Azman, A.S.A.Kader
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Page No. 19 to 29

Among all industries hydrophilic cotton from raw cotton and all type of medical gauze from textile productions have high water consumption. Due to this reason water recycles and reuse in these industries and generally water usage minimization in these units have especial importance. For practical research in this context one of domestic industry has been selected as a case study. Water u...
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Authors Dr. Seyed Mostafa Khezri, Bahareh Ghafari
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Page No. 41 to 50

Problem Statement : Oil exploration and exploitation has been on-going for several decades in the Niger Delta. It has had disastrous impacts on the environment in the region and has adversely affected people inhabiting that region. The Niger Delta consist of diverse ecosystems of mangrove swamps, fresh water swamps, rain forest and is the largest wetland in Africa and among the ten most ...
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Authors Dr. Kadafa, Adati Ayuba
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Page No. 19 to 28

Çatalca, located on the ridge between the Marmara and the Black Sea, is a rural district of Istanbul having the temperate climate. Landuse involves farming and forestry. This study makes a contribution and revises the applicability of two medium spatial resolution satellite sensors, NOAA AVHRR NDVI and MODIS (Terra) NDVI, for prediction to potential forest resource management i...
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Authors Dr. Farooq Ahmad
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Page No. 29 to 46