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In the face of an ever-evolving environment, a crucial challenge emerges concerning the dynamic interplay between the sea and the land. Amidst these complexities, a fundamental question arises: should human intervention seek to reshape the natural processes, or should it primarily focus on comprehensive understanding, aiming to maintain a semblance of equilibrium? These intricacies, along with several important technical considerations, underscore the imperative to safeguard coastal regions against the escalating ...

Most rivers in the temperate zone experience flooding due to snowmelt or heavy rainstorms. The lower Danube rivers has caused significant economic damages and in some cases even loss of human life. Understanding the relationship between the occurrence rate of Danube rivers flood events and climate change is crucial for flood risk management in Romania. Here we present a multiproxy and observational data set of floods from the lower Danube Basin Rivers over the last millennium. The results highlight that the lower ...

The work aims to characterize the slope instabilities present in the Taveiro Sand and Clay - Areias e Argilas de Taveiro - Formation, which occurs in the municipalities of Condeixa and Coimbra, in central-western Portugal. The Areias e Argilas de Taveiro Formation, of Upper Cretaceous - Campanian - age, is made up of successions of metric layers of red, and brownish or pinkish pelites, interbedded with coarse arkosic sandstones. It has as maximum thickness of about 170 m. A total of 27 slopes with stability proble...

The present study aims to investigate the current conditions of saltwater intrusion in the Shabla - Krapets area, a long-known area of groundwater salinization. The main objectives of this investigation are (i) to find the interface (boundary) between fresh and salty (brackish) water and (ii) to study the seasonal dynamic of saltwater movement in the aquifer (intrusion). The results were obtained from July 2022 to the end of 2023. In the area of investigation (aquifer), there is a fresh groundwater layer which thi...

In this work, a rock fall assessment was carried out in two distinct areas in southwest Angola. One is located next to Chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte in the urban area of Lubango. The other area is located on the road between the city of Lubango and the tourist area of Tundavala. The rock mass of the first area belongs to the Tundavala Formation of the Chela Group and consists of quartzitic-sandstone with a sub-horizontal bedding attitude. The rock mass in the second area is composed of quartzitic-sandstone and ...

This paper focuses on the Deep Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (DSGSD) affecting Val Roncaglia (Northern Italy). Based on the state of the art about DSGSD, the study area was characterized from geologic, tectonic, geomorphological, and hydrogeological points of view in order to reconstruct the conceptual model of the slope (geometry, geomaterials and their properties). Moreover, based on the available monitoring data, the landslide kinematics was pointed out together with its possible evolution and the rela...