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Open Journal of Geology (OJG) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of geology. All manuscrip…
Sanghee Shin, George V. Chilingar, Oleg Sorokhtin, Nikolai O. Sorokhtin
A number of large and unique oil and gas fields were discovered over the western Arctic shelf of Eurasia . Some of them were partially apprai s ed. Also, there are three potentially hydrocarbon-rich but insufficiently studied areas in the region. The discover…
T. V. Posukhova, L. L. Panasian, I. E. Sas
The article prese n ts the results of study of composition, structure and properties of three genetic types of serpentinites from Ural: developed by chromite-bearing ultrabasic rocks , by metamorphic zones of carbonate rocks and within the zone of weathering…
Batool Rivandi, Mohammad Vahidinia, Mehdi Nadjafi, Assadolah Mahboubi, Abbas Sadeghi
The main purpose of this paper is the sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of lower Tertiary sediments on the base of larger benthic foraminifera in northeast of Iran (Chehel-Kaman Formation). This formation mainly consists of Limestone, dolomite and int…
Rahman Sharifi, Ali Solgi, Mohsen Pourkermani
This research shows a noticeable comparison between slide zones produced with the results using the Nilsen method with active tectonic hazard zonation map. A determination landform of geometry or morphometry factors is one of the best methods for study and ev…
Mojtaba Manafi, Mehran Arian, Seyed Hashem Tabatabaee Raeesi, Ali Solgi
Caucasus region is located in the center of Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt. It is made of two Great and Lesser Caucasus fold thrust belts and an intramountain area called Trans caucasus or Mid caucasus. This region contains a system of oceanic crust subductio…
Hideki Shimada, Akihiro Hamanaka, Takashi Sasaoka, Kikuo Matsui
A large amount of waste is produced by preparation plants. The properties of the waste vary depend ing on the mineralogical contents of the mother rock in which the coal is embedded. The waste quality depends on the method of mining and cleaning. The waste ma…
Tahar Ayadat, Adel Hanna
It is nowadays well reported that collapsible soils spread in many countries, including United States, Russia, China, South America (e.g. Brazil), South and North Africa (e.g. Egypt, Algeria), Middle East (e.g. Saudi Arabia) and many countries in Eastern Euro…
Mohammad Yousef Mahmoodi, Abbas Bahroudi, Mansour Ghorbani, Mehran Arian
Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (UDMA) is known as a belt with copper and some other metal deposits. The study area is a part of Jebal Barez Mountains located in southeastern of the belt in Iran. Two types of deposits are known in the belt. Semicircular patterns…
Jairo A. Diaz
In biology, cancer is the most beautiful natural model of a chaotic system, which under uncontrolled proliferations, generates extreme disorder that finally causes intercellular collisions. The authors have described and documented fractal self-assembly of ge…
Mohammad Anvar Moheghy, Fatemeh Hadavi, Behname Rahimi
The biostratigraphy of calcareous nannofossils of the Cretaceous is investigated in the boundary between Abderaz and Kalat Formations through the record of species richness, diversity and distribution patterns in the west Kopet-Dagh region. The Kalat Formatio…
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Open Journal of Geology (OJG) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of geology. All manuscrip… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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