Groundwater condition based on geoelectrical technique and Dar Zarrouk parameters between El Alamein and El Dabaa—Egypt     

Adel D. M. Kotb  Mohamed A. Khaled  Mostafa S. Barseem 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2018,11(19):596

El Alamein-El-Dabaa area lies in the western Mediterranean coastal zone of Egypt with about 50 km long. The aims of the present study are the shallow groundwater aquifer determination and calculate the electric parameters of the overburden to achieve the easiest way for detecting groundwater contamination and considered it during the planning of new development project(s). To attain this target, 44 vertical resistivity soundings using Schlumberger array of the maximum AB/2?=?1000 m in the form of four profiles were carried out. From the interpretation results, six geoelectrical layers have been established in the area, and iso-resistivity, depth to water, and isopach contour maps are presented. Four geoelectrical cross-sections (two geoelectrical cross-sections are parallel to the Mediterranean shoreline and the other two are normal to the Mediterranean shoreline) have been constructed. According to this work, the upper part of the Oolitic Limestone represents the shallow groundwater aquifer in this area and can be distinguished into two zones. The upper zone is brackish, whereas the lower one is saline. The geoelectrical succession reveals that the aquifer is free type. The depth to water ranges between 20 and 63 m; therefore, it is the choice as the best sites for groundwater exploitation. In the area under study, the depth to water and the thickness of the brackish increase towards the south side as well as the depth to the brackish water. The Dar-Zarrouk parameters clarified that there are some parts that may contaminate pathways and other parts are not.  相似文献   

Monophyly or polyphyly? Possible conflict between morphological and molecular interpretations of the wellknown genus Zoothamnium(Ciliophora,Peritrichia)     

李丽芳  马洪钢 《中国海洋湖沼学报》2015,33(2):490-499

In this paper,we explore possible conflict between morphological and molecular interpretations of phylogenetic relationships within the well-known peritrichous genus Zoothamnium. On the basis of morphological evidence,for a long time this genus has been believed to be a well-defined monophyletic taxon. Nonetheless,Z oothamnium exhibits higher genetic diversity than the gross morphology of its species. Here,we used all available genetic information for the small subunit of ribosomal RNA(SSU r RNA) and internal transcribed spacer region(ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) for this genus to reconstruct phylogenies for four datasets(SSU rRNA,ITS1,ITS2,and ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) and a combined dataset(SSU rRNA+ITS1-5.8SITS2) using different phylogenetic methods and with consideration of the secondary structure of the genes. Confidence in phylogenetic tree selection was assessed with the approximately unbiased test. The molecular results showed both that Zoothamnium is more likely to be polyphyletic,and morphologically similar genera Zoothamnopsis and Myoschiston were always nested among Zoothamnium species. Accordingly,as with some other groups of ciliates,to understand more fully the correct phylogeny of Zoothamnium there remains a need for additional data from both morphological and molecular studies,covering additional Zoothamnium spp. and members of closely related genera(e.g. Zoothamnopsis,Myoschiston,and Epistylis).  相似文献   

Geospatial cryptography: enabling researchers to access private,spatially referenced,human subjects data for cancer control and prevention     

Jacquez  Geoffrey M.  Essex  Aleksander  Curtis  Andrew  Kohler  Betsy  Sherman  Recinda  El Emam  Khaled  Shi  Chen  Kaufmann  Andy  Beale  Linda  Cusick  Thomas  Goldberg  Daniel  Goovaerts  Pierre 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2017,19(3):197-220

Journal of Geographical Systems - As the volume, accuracy and precision of digital geographic information have increased, concerns regarding individual privacy and confidentiality have come to the...  相似文献   

Use of salinity and resistivity measurements to study the coastal aquifer salinization in a semi-arid region: a case study in northeast Nile Delta,Egypt     

Mohamed Attwa  Khaled S. Gemail  Mohamed Eleraki 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(9):784

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Environmental isotope systematics of the groundwater system of southern Kuwait     

Khaled Hadi  U. Saravana Kumar  M. Al-Senafy  H. Bhandary 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(14):1096

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Late Ediacaran post-collisional A-type syenites with shoshonitic affinities,northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: a possible mantle-derived A-type magma     

Hisham Gahlan  Mokhles Azer  Paul Asimow  Khaled Al-Kahtany 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(12):603

The Abu Rumeil syenitic rocks represent the inner ring dyke of the Katherina Ring complex, southern Sinai, Egypt. They are divided petrologically into two types, alkali feldspar syenite and quartz syenite. The mineralogy and geochemistry of the syenites indicate an alkaline nature with a shoshonitic affinity. Although rare mafic xenocrysts overgrown by primary K-feldspars and overlapping rare earth element (REE) patterns indicate some role for crustal contamination, the trace element chemistry shows a dominant mantle contribution. The geochronology and field relations imply that the Abu Rumeil syenites were emplaced in a post-collisional, within-plate tectonic setting, yet they express the enrichments in large-ion lithophile elements relative to high field strength elements generally characteristic of subduction influence. We suggest that this signature is inherited from partial melting of a lithospheric mantle source previously affected by subduction during assembly of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Little evidence of the early evolution of the suite is preserved; there are no associated mafic rocks. We therefore restrict our attention to a petrogenetic model that can explain the relations among the observed felsic composition. The REE patterns of all samples are enriched in light REE and fractionated, but it is notable that there are small positive Eu anomalies in the alkali-feldspar syenites contrasting with small negative Eu anomalies in the quartz syenites. Positive Eu anomalies suggest a cumulate nature for the alkali-feldspar syenites; there are also breaks in the slopes of most variation trends between the alkali-feldspar syenites and the quartz syenites. The general trends in all major oxides and trace elements within the suite can be modeled by fractional crystallization of feldspars—with smaller roles for pyroxene, biotite, apatite, and Fe-Ti oxides—from an intermediate liquid to form the quartz syenites and by assimilation of the near-liquidus phases into the same starting liquid to form the alkali feldspar syenites. The geothermobarometry of pyroxenes and amphiboles suggests shallow emplacement (<10 km depth) and crystallization temperatures ranging from 1100 °C down to 800 °C.  相似文献   

Numerical modeling of brine disposal from Gaza central seawater desalination plant     

Mazen?AbualtayefEmail author  Hassan?Al-Najjar  Yunes?Mogheir  Ahmed?Khaled?Seif 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(10):572

Gaza central seawater desalination plant is a promising solution to alleviate the problem of water crisis in the Gaza Strip. The plant in the short term, phase (I), will desalinate seawater for potable uses with a capacity of 55 million cubic meters per year, while in the long term, phase (II), the plant capacity will be doubled to 110 million cubic meters per year of freshwater. As a product from the reverse osmosis process, a huge amount of brine with salinity reaches to 75,000 mg/L will be redirected to seawater; nearly 12,200 m³/h of brine will be rejected from phase (I) while in the long term, a brine flow rate of 24,400 m³/h will be disposed from phase (II). In order to minimize the negative impacts of the rejected brine on the marine environment, it is urgent to modeling numerically the impact of the discharged brine through various disposal systems to define the most environmental system. Various scenarios were defined and simulated using CORMIX model to study the efficiencies of onshore surface open channel, offshore submerged single port as well as offshore submerged multiport outfalls taking salinity variations as an indicator. Sensitivity analysis was conducted to identify the most influencing input parameters on the simulation results as well as to evaluate the optimal environmental disposal system which can mitigate the adverse impacts of brine on the marine ecosystem as much as possible in the worst seawater conditions. The simulation results showed that the discharge via surface open channel is not environmentally feasible where the seawater salinity rose by more than 2000 mg/L at RMZ. The single-port scenario can meet the regulations at RMZ but the standard at GMZ was not met, where the rejected brine from phase (I) through single port at 1500 m offshore raises the seawater salinity at GMZ by more than 600  mg/L. The staged multiport outfall, capped by 24 ports, achieves acceptable brine dilution at seawater depth of about 7.5  m, and in the worst ambient conditions in the case of phase (II) in operation, the brine’s excess salinity was 536, 497, and 379 mg/L above the salinity of seawater at RMZ, GMZ, and ROI, respectively.  相似文献   

The 2014 seismic hazard model of the Middle East: overview and results     

Karin Şeşetyan  Laurentiu Danciu  Mine B. Demircioğlu Tümsa  Domenico Giardini  Mustafa Erdik  Sinan Akkar  Levent Gülen  Mehdi Zare  Shota Adamia  Anooshiravan Ansari  Avetis Arakelyan  Ayşegül Askan  Mher Avanesyan  Hektor Babayan  Tamaz Chelidze  Raffi Durgaryan  Ata Elias  Hossein Hamzehloo  Khaled Hessami  Doğan Kalafat  Özkan Kale  Arkady Karakhanyan  Muhammad Asif Khan  Tahir Mammadli  Mahmood Al-Qaryouti  Mohammad Sayab  Nino Tsereteli  Murat Utkucu  Otar Varazanashvili  Muhammad Waseem  Hilal Yalçın  Mustafa Tolga Yılmaz 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2018,16(8):3535-3566

The Earthquake Model of Middle East (EMME) Project aimed to develop regional scale seismic hazard and risk models uniformly throughout a region extending from the Eastern Mediterranean in the west to the Himalayas in the east and from the Gulf of Oman in the south to the Greater Caucasus in the North; a region which has been continuously devastated by large earthquakes throughout the history. The 2014 Seismic Hazard Model of Middle East (EMME-SHM14) was developed with the contribution of several institutions from ten countries. The present paper summarizes the efforts towards building a homogeneous seismic hazard model of the region and highlights some of the main results of this model. An important aim of the project was to transparently communicate the data and methods used and to obtain reproducible results. By doing so, the use of the model and results will be accessible by a wide community, further support the mitigation of seismic risks in the region and facilitate future improvements to the seismic hazard model. To this end all data, results and methods used are made available through the web-portal of the European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard and Risk (www.efehr.org).  相似文献   

Discussion of “Experimental study on the hydraulic conductivity of calcareous sand in South China Sea”     

Mohamed Khaled Salahou  Weihua Guo 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2018,36(3):297-298

Hydraulic conductivity of the granular soils depends on many factors including the soil density and the particle size distribution. For internally unstable soils, the hydraulic conductivity could be changed beyond a critical value of hydraulic gradient. This discussion calls attention to the effect of the internal stability on the hydraulic conductivity, where the internal stability of the soils is assessed and the critical hydraulic gradient is computed using some theoretical methods, and such calculations could be used to plan the experimental tests.  相似文献   

Discussion of (anisotropic hydraulic conductivity and critical hydraulic gradient of a crushed sandstone–mudstone particle mixture)     

Mohamed Khaled Salahou  Yousif A. H. Dallo 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2018,36(2):199-201

A discussion is presented here to the work of Wang and Qiu including some notes about the analysis and the correlations of the results. First, we show that there is no clear relationship between the critical hydraulic gradient and the uniformity coefficient. Also we show that the internal erosion mechanism of soils with bimodal structure is different from that for soils with no bimodal structure. Finally, we emphasis that the anisotropy in the hydraulic conductivity is not related to the uneven compaction only but also to the particle arrangements and connectivity between pores.  相似文献