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Listing a Geological Rarity of 'Stone Balls' in Kysuce Among World Geotourism Destinations
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016)
Kysuce, situated on the border with the Czech Republic and Poland, belongs among distinctive regions in the Slovak Republic. This region offers tourism many interesting sites. Few decades ago, Kysuce offered tourists and ...
Monitoring of heat transmission from buildings into geological environment and evaluation of soil deformation consequences in foundation engineering
(SPRINGER, 2014)
In engineering geology a number of factors affecting foundation conditions are taken into consideration during engineering-geological investigations. This article deals with the factor of heat sourced from a structure ...
DETERMINATION OF SERVICE AREAS BASED ON VECTOR NETWORK MODEL ROADWAYS
(STEF92 TECHNOLOGY LTD, 2013)
The contribution presents the design of an original algorithm for the delimitation of service areas in a vector model of road network. Service areas are derived from the service network, computed for a selected centre on ...
THE RESULTS OF ANALYTICAL METHODS APPLIED IN THE STUDY OF ORGANIC MATTER CONTAINED IN THE CARBONIFEROUS CLASTIC SEDIMENTS
(STEF92 TECHNOLOGY LTD, 2014)
The objective of the work is to determine the total percentage of organic matter in the coal deposit sediments. Such obtained data provides important information, for example, about the conditions under which the deposit ...
A case study assessing thermal activity at a significant geotourism locality of Ema coal tailing dumps in the mining landscape of Ostrava, Czech Republic
(GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBL HOUSE, 2017)
The study focuses on the assessment of surface area thermal activity measured by air thermal photography at the significant geotourism locality of Ema coal tailing dumps. Ema has become a geotourism post-mining landmark ...
Analysis of The Loess Geological Environment in Terms of Engineering-Geological and Geotechnical Purposes and Application in Geotourism
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016)
Loess sediments, formed via wind action, are important geological environments both for the engineering geology as well as for the newly developing field in the geosciences, i.e. geotourism. The paper aims to give the basic ...
An assessment on the use of bivariate, multivariate and soft computing techniques for collapse susceptibility in GIS environ
(INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES, 2013)
The paper presented herein compares and discusses the use of bivariate, multivariate and soft computing techniques for collapse susceptibility modelling. Conditional probability (CP), logistic regression (LR) and artificial ...
Influence of the Soil Genesis on Physical and Mechanical Properties
(HINDAWI PUBLISHING CORPORATION, 2013)
The paper deals with the influence of soil genesis on the physical-mechanical properties. The presented case study was conducted in the region of the Ostrava Basin where there is a varied genetic composition of the Quaternary ...
Analysis the Purposes of Land Use Planning on the Hard Coal Tailing Dumps
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016)
The aim of this publication is to analyse the purposes of land use planning on hard coal tailing dumps. This issue is very topical because there are 46 tailing dumps and 281 reservoirs in the Ostrava-Karvina Mining District. ...