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We present two open-source Python packages: "electron spectro-microscopy"(espm) and "electron microscopy tables"(emtables). The espm software enables the simulation of scanning transmission electron microscopy energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy datacubes ...

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Work in Progress: The Anthropocene Square Meter

Sarah Nichols, Marion Moutal, Tiffanie Paré, Ziu Tristan August Bruckmann

Humanity has fundamentally transformed Earth, making the creation of a new geological era, the Anthropocene. This model is physically documenting the Anthropocene as one square meter of Earth’s surface following a method first proposed by the renown geolog ...

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3D Geomechanical Modelling of a Potential CO2 Storage Site with focus on Fault Stability

Jean-François Molinari, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Guillaume Anciaux, Nicolas Richart, Emil Gallyamov

Underground CO2 storage represents the most viable Negative Emission Technology capable of significantly reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Ideal reservoirs for CO2 sequestration are thick highly-porous and highly-permeable formations ensuring a h ...

2023

Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures: How they Emerge, Grow, and get Arrested

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Andreas Möri, Carlo Peruzzo, Dmitriy Garagash

Most anthropogenic applications of hydraulic fracturing treatments are performed in sedimentary basins. In these geological formations, the minimum compressive stress is usually horizontal and increases with depth. As a result, hydraulic fractures grow alo ...

2023

Physical characterization of fault rocks within the Opalinus Clay formation

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Christophe Nussbaum, Luis Felipe Orellana Espinoza

Near-surface disposal of radioactive waste in shales is a promising option to safeguard the population and environment. However, natural faults intersecting these geological formations can potentially affect the long-term isolation of the repositories. Thi ...

2022

Numerical Scheme for the Large-scale Geomechanical Simulations of CO2-storage

Emil Gallyamov

CO2 geological storage implies injecting supercritical carbon dioxide in deep geological formations. CO2 geological storage is currently the only available Negative Emission Technology with sufficient proven capabilities to significantly contribute to the ...

2022

Missing water from the Qiangtang Basin on the Tibetan Plateau

David Andrew Barry, Tao Wang, Jiaqi Chen

The Qiangtang Basin is a large endorheic basin in the inner part of the Tibetan Plateau and has been thought to be a dry region in contrast with its wet surrounding outer region that feeds all the major Asian rivers. Combining surface hydrological data wit ...

2021

Integration of geological data into the BIM process in infrastructure projects

BIM is a process whose workflow differs significantly from conventional methods. An essential aspect of BIM is the creation of 3D models to which a wide range of information is assigned. This information model is placed at the center of a project as the si ...

2020

Mapping urban underground potential in Dakar, Senegal: From the analytic hierarchy process to self-organizing maps

Michael Robert Doyle

This article presents a mapping method that seeks to provide urban planning with a diagnostic overview of the underground resources of an urban area. Resource potentials (for buildable space, groundwater or geomaterial extraction and geothermal energy) ten ...

2020

District scale influence of waste heat on the subsurface conditions: a numerical investigation for Chicago

Stéphane Hartmann

Since the 20th century, the rate of urbanization in the world has been increasing exponentially and will reach 68% in 2050. In parallel with this expansion, the size and activities of cities are also greatly growing. As a result, cities are depleting avail ...

2020

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