Local site effects on seismic ground response of major cities in UAE     

Magdi El-Emam  Zahid Khan  Jamal Abdalla  Muhammad Irfan 《Natural Hazards》2015,79(2):791-814

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Fractionation and risk assessment of heavy metals in soil samples collected along Zerqa River,Jordan   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Habes A. Ghrefat  Nigem Yusuf  Ahmad Jamarh  Jamal Nazzal 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2012,66(1):199-208

The objectives of the current study were to determine the chemical partitioning of Pb, Ni, Zn, Co, Cr, Mn, Fe and Cd using sequential extraction procedure and to assess the environmental risk associated with these metals in the farming soils along Zerqa River. Metal concentrations were measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometer. The study area demonstrated a wide range for pH, organic matter, carbonate contents, and cation exchange capacity, and is polluted with Pb, Cd, Mn, and Cu. The extensive use of fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural activities, and discharge of treated and untreated wastewater are the major sources of pollution in the study area. Principal component analysis coupled with Pearson’s correlation analysis between the heavy metals revealed strong and positive correlation between these metals in the study area. According to the Risk Assessment Code (RAC), major portions of Cd and Mn are contained in exchangeable and carbonates fractions and therefore can easily enter the food chain. These metals pose a high to very high risk to the environment. Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn pose medium risk, while Cr poses a low environment risk.  相似文献   

Integration multisource data for mineral exploration by using fuzzy logic,case study: Taknar deposit,NE of Iran     

Khosrow Maroufi Naghadehi  Ardeshir Hezarkhani  Jamal Honarpazhouh  Kumars Seifpanahi Shabani 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(8):3227-3241

The Taknar Zone is located at the northern margin of the eastern Iranian continental microplate, and it is host to the Taknar massive sulfide deposit. This study was conducted to find new exploration targets. We used multiple data sources (e.g., litho-geochemical and magnetic surveys) to produce more effective predictive maps. Principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis methods were used to organize the new information into favorability maps and to determine multi-element correlations. We then employed fuzzy logic modeling to create favorability maps from geochemical and magnetic data. A concentration–area multifractal method was used to evaluate the final integrated favorability map for massive sulfide exploration. Our new map identifies previously unexploited sites in the eastern part of the study area, near the boundary of the Taknar formation, with intrusive and subvolcanic rocks, with potential for mineral exploration. The newly defined targets are attractive because old mined ore bodies are also identified in the favorability map.  相似文献   

Estimation of joint trace length probability distribution function in igneous,sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks     

Jamal Zadhesh  Seyed-Mohammad Esmaeil Jalali  Ahmad Ramezanzadeh 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(6):2353-2361

To predict the behavior of structures in and on jointed rock masses, it is necessary to characterize the geomechanical properties of joints and intact rock. Among geometry properties of joints, trace length has a vital importance, because it affects rock mass strength and controls the stability of the rock structures in jointed rock masses. Since joint length has a range of values, it is useful to have an understanding of the distribution of these values in order to predict how the extreme values may be compared to the values obtained from a small sample. For this purpose, three datasets of joint systems from nine exposures of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are studied. Joint trace length is one of the most difficult properties to measure accurately, but it may be possible to record other geometrical properties of exposed joints accurately; thereby, support vector machine (SVM) model is used to predict the joint trace length. SVM is a novel machine learning method, which is a powerful tool used to solve the problem characterized by small sample and non-linearity with a good generalization performance. Consequently, goodness-of-fit (GOF) tests were applied on these data. According to these GOF tests, the lognormal distribution was found to be the best probability distribution function for representing a joint trace length distribution.  相似文献   

A Morphological Approach to Predicting Urban Expansion     

Jamal Jokar Arsanjani  Marco Helbich  Ali Jafar Mousivand 《Transactions in GIS》2014,18(2):219-233

Many methods for modeling urban expansion are available. Most of these computational models demand a variety of large‐scale environmental and socio‐economic data to investigate the relationship between urban expansion and its driving forces. These requirements are not always fulfilled, particularly in developing countries due to a lack of data availability. This necessitates methods not suffering from data limitations to ease their application. Consequently, this research presents a morphological approach for predicting urban expansion on the basis of spatiotemporal dynamics of urban margins by investigating the interior metropolitan area of Tehran, Iran as a case study. To assess the model's performance, urban expansion is monitored from 1976 to 2012. The proposed model is evaluated to ensure that the prediction performance for the year 2012 is acceptable. For the year 2024, the model predicts Tehran's urban expansion at an overall R² of 88%. Accordingly, it is concluded that: (1) although this approach only inputs urban margins, it represents a suitable and easy‐to‐use urban expansion model; and (2) urban planners are faced with continuing urban expansion.  相似文献   

Hydrothermal Alteration Mapping Using ASTER Data for Reconnaissance Porphyry Copper Mineralization in the Ahar Area, NW Iran     

Kaveh Pazand  Jamal Fereidoni Sarvestani  M. Reza S. Ravasan 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2013,41(2):379-389

The Ahar area is located in East Azarbaijan province, and covers an area of about 2,500 km². Spectral mapping techniques were applied on VNIR and SWIR of ASTER data for discriminating between hydrothermal alteration zones and the identification of high potential mineralized lithological unit associated with hydrothermal porphyry copper mineralization in the Ahar. In this research to remove atmospheric and topographic effects from ASTER data, the log-residual method (LRM) was used. Four methods, Relative Band Depth Ratios (RBD), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF) and matched filtering (MF), were used to processing and interpretation of remote sensing data in the study area. Results show that ASTER images provide preliminary mineralogy information and geo-referenced alteration maps at low cost and with high accuracy for reconnaissance porphyry copper mineralizations.  相似文献   

Evaluation of earthquake activity along the Serghaya fault, Syria, from instrumental seismic data     

Jamal Asfahani  Mohamad K. Abdul-Wahed 《Acta Geophysica》2013,61(1):37-59

This is a tentative study in order to characterize and identify the Serghaya fault in Syria through an analysis of its instrumentally observed earthquake activity for the period of 1995–2009. Different approaches are used to evaluate a- and b-values of the Gutenberg-Richter relation. It has been found that the computed b-values (around 1.5) are bigger than usually expected, which could be related either to incompleteness of earthquake catalogue or to invalidity of the Gutenberg-Richter model in the case of Serghaya fault. Based on several explanations of high b-values, existing in the literature, it can be inferred that the events recorded on the Serghaya fault occurred at small depths in the heterogeneous milieus under low stresses. A relative seismic quiescence from 1900 up to now is observed, whereas the biggest earthquake recorded during the study period does not exceed magnitude 3.9. Such quiescence does not reflect accurately an earthquake potential of the Serghaya fault and can probably indicate a large-magnitude earthquake occurrence in near future. The established earthquake catalogue must be necessarily completed in order to deeper characterize the real behavior of the Serghaya fault. Such a characterization, accompanied with seismic activity evaluation, could be used in the assessment of seismic hazard.  相似文献   

Groundwater potential estimation using vertical electrical sounding measurements in the semi-arid Khanasser Valley region,Syria     

Jamal Asfahani 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(2):468-482

Abstract

Traditional and polar vertical electrical sounding (VES) techniques were used for computing and characterizing the transmissivity of the Quaternary and Palaeogene aquifers in the Khanasser Valley, northern Syria. The VES technique with its different applied approaches is inexpensive, easy and gives rapid results with high spatial resolution. The Dar-Zarrouk parameters were determined to estimate the groundwater potential of the aquifers. The results show the mean transmissivity of the Quaternary aquifer to be 49 m²/d (minimum: 10 m²/d; maximum: 131 m²/d; standard deviation: 32 m²/d), and that of the Palaeogene aquifer is 0.94 m²/d (minimum: 0.31 m²/d; maximum: 1.54 m²/d; standard deviation: 0.33 m²/d).

Editor D. Koutsoyiannis

Citation Asfahani, J., 2013. Groundwater potential estimation using vertical electrical sounding measurements in the semi-arid Khanasser Valley region, Syria. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58 (2), 468--482.  相似文献   

Quaternary aquifer transmissivity derived from vertical electrical sounding measurements in the semi-arid Khanasser Valley Region,Syria   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jamal Asfahani 《Acta Geophysica》2012,60(4):1143-1158

Vertical electrical sounding technique (VES) is used as an alternative approach to pumping test for computing the Quaternary aquifer transmissivity in the Khanasser Valley, Northern Syria. The method is inexpensive, easy and gives faster results with higher special resolution than the traditional pumping technique. The hydraulic conductivity values obtained using VES agree with the pumping test results, which in the Khanasser Valley vary between the order of 0.864 and 8.64 m/day (10⁻⁵ and 10⁻⁴ m/s). The probable location of the Quaternary aquifer in the Khanasser Valley is obtained through the transmissivity map derived from VES. The knowledge of transmissivity is fundamental for modeling and management processes in the Khanasser Valley. Other similar semiarid regions can benefit from the approach successfully applied in the study area.  相似文献   

High-throughput production of peroxidase and its biodegradation potential toward polymeric material     

N. Khatoon  N. I. Sahar  U. Ndu  N. Ali  A. Jamal  S. Ahmed  M. I. Ali 《International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology》2017,14(4):755-766

Plastics are polymeric materials, and their disposal is a great problem in today’s society. Large quantities of single-use plastics are used every minute throughout the world. Peroxidase enzymes play a significant role in the biodegradation of polymeric materials due to oxidoreductase capability. The objective is to determine which set of conditions optimize the production of peroxidase enzymes by Phanerochaete chrysosporium so as to degrade polymeric materials. The sequential order of parameters in terms of their relevant performance in the bioprocess was determined as urea > polyvinyl chloride > incubation time > polyethylene > veratryl alcohol > sucrose > ammonium sulfate > glucose > ferrous sulfate and polystyrene. Statistical analysis was performed by using analysis of variance which indicated the significance of model Plackett–Burman and components on the basis of F value and P value of 0.012678 < 0.05. The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of enzyme-treated polymer revealed structural changes at 1091, 1638 cm^?1. A new peak appeared at wave number 1029 and represented the aromatic ether and phenolic group as compared to control. Biosynthesis of lignin peroxidase at optimized conditions has the potential for biodegradation of recalcitrant polymeric waste, due to its oxidoreductase capability for chemically inert material in nature like lignin and can be used for waste treatment on a large scale.  相似文献