Bjelovarska subdepresija kao prostor s konvencionalnim i nekonvencionalnim ležištima ugljikovodika te geotermalnom energijom

Author(s): Tomislav Malvić / Language(s): English,Croatian / Issue: 9/2015

The Bjelovar Subdepression is geologically very well defined area where are discovered proven hydrocarbon reserves. However, there are assumed as well potential hydrocarbon and geothermal reserves. Here is firstly given review of forming and application of fossil fuels and geothermal energy. It is followed by review of lithologies, depths and distributions of unconventional and geothermal reservoirs in subdepression parts where they are explored and assumed. Geothermal reservoir is studied in Mesozoic carbonates and Karpatian to Badenian coarse grained clastics in Velika Ciglena Syncline. It is the largest single structure in Velika Ciglena Syncline, where is proven geothermal water at depth more than 2500 m. However, it still is not proven and used for electricity of thermal applications. Unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs are also assumed in the same area, i.e. in Upper Badenian, Sarmatian and Lower Pannonian sediments in the thermal mature phase. Also, such unconventional reservoirs, especially of gas, could be proven at subdepression margin, in the Bilogora Zone, in structures where conventional reservoirs are not proven (Cremušina, Gakovo), but are registered oil and gas shows in weakly permeable Upper Miocene sandstones.

BLAŽENA JE VODA ŠTO RAĐA KAMENJE – POGLED NA POEZIJU STOJANA VUČIĆEVIĆA IZ KRŠKE PERSPEKTIVE

Author(s): Ivo Lučić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 51/2018

How to entitle karstology interested in treating karst in one’s poetry? Poetic karstology? It sounds inappropriate, though it should be true. This is one of such attempts, on the occasion of thirtieth anniversary of the death of Stojan Vučićević, a poet of refined senses and exceptional poetic intuition, born in Popovo Polje. He comes into the world into a family that inherited the experience of the pastoral-agricultural culture shaped within this extraordinary karst phenomenon. The idea was to move karstology from conventional geoscience to an interdisciplinary and more holistically understood science. Basically, the poetic images and concepts of Stojan Vučićević are compared to the images and notions of karst created by karstology. This analysis, which is only one of the many possible ways, proved justified and offered various answers. The poetry of Stojan Vučićević is interwoven throughout and transversely with themes and figures of karst, in which karst specificities are an important means of poetic creation. This is most evident in the Siga (Flowstone) collection, which features particularly illustrative poems by “Siga”, “Ponornica” (Sinking river) and “Pećina” (Cave).

BULANIK-MALAZGİRT HAVZASI’NIN (MUŞ) HİDROGRAFİK ÖZELLİKLERİ

Author(s): Kemal, M. Taner Kıranşan, Şengün / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 14/2017

Bulanık-Malazgirt Basin (Muş) exists in the middle of this section and in the “Upper Murat-Van Section “ of Eastern Anatolia Region. Bulanık-Malazgirt Basin (Muş) is included Euphrates River drainage basin hydrographically and it exists in downstream of Murat River at the top of this basin. Waters of the region are discharged to Euphrates River and from there to Persian Gulf by Murat River and its arms. Hydrographic properties of the basin were shaped by climate, geology and geomorphological factors of the field. The hydrographic properties of Bulanık-Malazgirt Basin (Muş) that exist in an important position in the Eastern Anatolia Region were’nt searced geographically. The purpose of this work in this framework, The hydrographic properties of Bulanık-Malazgirt Basin are to search geographically. In accordance with this purpose, Digital Elevation Model (DEM), digital topography maps, geological maps and numerical hydrographic data field of examination were analyzed with Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In addition to analyzes related to flow quantities and regimes of rivers were made with data of the flow monitoring stations of DSİ and analyzes of underground waters were made with Malazgirt, Bulanık and Patnos Plain Hydrological Survey Report (1978). At the end of work frequency of streaming web in Bulanık- Malazgirt Basin is not the same everywhere. The basin is fertile in terms of drainage types and climate conditions are decisive on the flow-regime conditions. Plains and basin floors are fertile in terms of groundwater.

Bursztyn w Polsce i na świecie

Author(s): Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz / Language(s): English,Polish / Publication Year: 2012

Dwujęzyczna, kolorowa publikacja prezentująca urodę, dzieje i szczególne właściwości bursztynu, uwzględniająca najnowszą literaturę przedmiotu. Dzięki bogactwie informacji książka ta może służyć jako podręcznik dla studentów oraz pracowników naukowych wydziałów nauk o ziemi na uniwersytetach oraz wyższych uczelniach technicznych. Pisana w sposób prosty i przystępny adresowana jest również do osób związanych zawodowo z obróbką żywic kopalnych oraz licznego grona miłośników tego szczególnego minerału, cieszącego się w naszym kraju wyjątkową popularnością. Omawia genezę, występowanie, nazewnictwo i obróbkę sukcynitu i innych żywic kopalnych w perspektywie światowej, historię ich obecności w naszej kulturze i związane z nimi tradycje, a także badania zawartego w kopalnych żywicach materiału organicznego.Ostatnią część publikacji poświęcono prezentacji najciekawszych ośrodków związanych z bursztynem i jego kolekcjami. Autorka proponuje polski turystyczny szlak bursztynowy, przedstawiając równocześnie takie szlaki istniejące w naszych krajach sąsiednich.Miło nam poinformować, że prof. dr hab. Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz za książkę Bursztyn w Polsce i na świecie otrzymała Złotą Różę – nagrodę za najlepszą polską książkę popularyzującą naukę. Nagroda została wręczona 21 września 2012 roku podczas uroczystego otwarcia XVI Festiwalu Nauki.

Cartea Albă 2010-2011 a Institutului Naţional de Cercetare - Dezvoltare în Construcţii, Urbanism şi Dezvoltare Teritorială Durabilă URBAN-INCERC

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 2011

White Charter of NIRD URBAN-INCERC in 2010-2011: research in civil engineering, architecture and spatial planning.

Cartea Albă a INCD URBAN-INCERC 2010-2015

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 2015

White Charter of NIRD URBAN-INCERC in 2010-2015: research in civil engineering, architecture and spatial planning.

Cechy uziarnienia vistuliańskich aluwiów w dolinie Warty, Kotlina Kolska

Author(s): Mateusz Lisek,Joanna Petera-Zganiacz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 106/2017

Vistulian deposits which fill the Warta River valley were studied in the open pits Koźmin North (Kwiatków) and Koźmin (South) of the “Adamów” Lignite Mine. The studies were conducted due to the possibility of analysing fluvial deposits of a big lowland river close to the axis of the valley, in profiles which reach a pre-Vistulian background. The aim of the research was to establish the phases of deposition and hydrodynamic conditions during the accumulation. In the studied profiles, seven depositional units have been distinguished, and one of them – the thickest – was divided into seven subunits. The results of the grain size analysis were used to calculate the Folk and Ward coefficients, as the basis for interpretations of differentiation in sedimentary environment dynamics. The deposition, which took place from the end of the Middle Plenivistulian to the Late Vistulian, was characterized by cyclic, but rather mild, transitions from rather high energetic to low energetic conditions. During the Late Vistulian and Holocene, alluvium has been accumulated in two clearly distinguishing facies: channel and overbank, with high content of organic matter.

Centre-periphery Cleavage in Ukraine

Author(s): Valeriu Deciu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Once the former USSR collapsed, countries like Ukraine have construed their own collective identity aiming to differentiate them from internal and external “others” in a nation building process. New territorial boundaries have been established over the mental ones, founding myths and heroes have been recovered or reinstated. This process looked successful for a while until a census unveiled a center-periphery cleavage formation. Meanwhile, Kiev’s centralizing policy had to face upheaval in the eastern part, and conflict is ongoing. Scholars have speculated mostly over ethnic and historical factors as well as Russia’s active involvement as main reasons for the shift in identity self-referencing of Donbas region’s inhabitants. This paper aims at examining this center-periphery cleavage formation from another standpoint: an internal political struggle between two regional clans that are still controlling the resources and hence hold political power in the so-called Donbas region from Eastern Ukraine. Without minimizing the influence of historical and ethnic factors, we posit that many eastern Ukrainians’ choice for identity self-referencing had shifted when their region started to decrease in terms of economic and political power on the central level. And the Donbas clans losing the central power control over fighting each other is along with historical and ethnic factors one of the main reasons for that.

Cercetări ale INCD URBAN-INCERC în Programul Nucleu

Author(s): Doina Bubulete / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Cercetări arheologice pe valea Neajlovului. Consideraţii generale asupra microzonei Bucşani

Author(s): Cătălin Bem,Traian Popa,Valentin Parnic,Carmen Bem ,Daniel Garvăn,Dan Bărbulescu,Irina Găluşcă / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2001

On the archaeological map of Romania there are certainly many white spots. We do not think it's worth talking about all the causes that are responsible for this. It is hoped that a series of evidenced elements will be discussed during the archaeological research carried out in Bucşani and Crevedia Mare (Giurgiu district). In practice, our area of interest is limited to the south by the confluence of Neajlov with Dâmbovnic and to the north, in the subjective way, by the general level curve of 100 m. From a geomorphological point of view this area is very well individualized. The natural boundaries as the valley is the terraces of Neajlov is also the Neajlov-Dâmbovnic interfluve and the Dâmbovnic valley on these last 4 km draw a unitary area. On 8.5 km of bird-like valley, between the confluence with Dâmbovnic south of Vadu Lat and north of Dealu village the valley has a width between 0.6 and 1.6 km. The terraces are high and steep and the marsh rate is higher in this stretch of Neajlov. All these particularities are unique for the middle course of Neajlov. Moreover, they imposed a certain density of Gumelniţa tells and rather their stratigraphic and therefore historical evolution.

Challenges for Romania within Horizon 2020 - The EU framework program for research and innovation 2014-2020: Preparing European partnering in research and technological development for sustainable constructions and built environment

Sixth international edition of the research conference on civil engineering, economy of constructions, architecture, urban planning and territorial development. Abstract Proceedings

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian / Publication Year: 2013

Includes abstracts of the papers presented in the research conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development, 6th edition.

Changes in discharge regimes in the middle course of the Sava River in the 1931–2010 period

Author(s): Mladen Maradin,Ivan Čanjevac,Danijel Orešić / Language(s): English / Issue: 151/2017

In order to analyse discharge regimes in the middle course of the Sava River (Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina), three hydrologic stations were chosen, having homogenous as well as continuous data in the observed 1931–2010 period. Those stations are Rugvica at the beginning of the middle course of the Sava River, station Jasenovac located just forehead of the Una River mouth and all the other large tributaries from Bosnia and Herzegovina and station Županja near the end of the middle course of the Sava River. At all three stations, there are notable negative trends of annual mean (all stat. significant) and minimum discharges for the whole period. At the same time, only in the upper part of the middle course of the Sava River maximum annual discharges have a positive trend, contributing to more unfavourable regime characteristics. At all three stations a cyclic variation of mean annual discharges is observed, likely to be linked to the cyclic variation of annual precipitation in the area of the basin. According to the latest discharge regime typology of the region the discharge regime at Rugvica is of Peripannonian pluvial-nival type, while the discharge regimes downstream, at Jasenovac and Županja fall into Pannoninan pluvial-nival type. A comparison of discharge regimes established for two past climatological standard reference periods 1931–1960 and 1961–1990 as well as for the contemporary 30-year period 1981–2010 lead to a conclusion that important changes in mean monthly discharges yearly course already occurred in the climatological standard reference period 1961–1990 compared to the previous one. In 1961–1990 period the autumn season discharge decreased, which is almost solely a result of a large fall in the November mean monthly discharge at all stations. Furthermore, in the same 1961–1990 period a transition of the primary maximum in the annual course of mean monthly discharges from November to December and of the secondary maximum from March to April occurred, which is preserved in discharge regimes in the middle course of the Sava River. Discharge regimes in the middle course of the Sava River in the contemporary period are characterised by decreased summer and even spring time discharges, which is linked to the trend of raising air temperatures, an increase in potential and real evapotranspiration and to a slowly decrease in annual precipitation, particularly in the summer season as established in spatially relevant previous climatological research.

Changes in precipitation over the East Herzegovina region

Author(s): Tatjana Popov,Slobodan Gnjato,Goran Trbić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Changes in annual and seasonal precipitation over the East Herzegovina region in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1961-2016 periods were analyzed based on data sets of daily precipitation from 14 meteorological stations and rainfall gauges. The results show a downward trend in annual precipitation over the entire East Herzegovina region. Seasonal trend analysis showed that negative trends prevailed throughout the year, except in autumn season. Most prominent negative trends were registered in summer season throughout the region. In winter and spring season, precipitation displayed trends of both sign (although a downward trend prevailed). In the autumn season, precipitation has increased almost throughout the entire East Herzegovina region. However, a majority of estimated trends in annual and seasonal precipitation were weak and statistically insignificant. Prevailing negative values of the Rainfall Anomaly Index since the 1990s also suggest that precipitation reduction was present over the East Herzegovina region. Analysis of the Cumulative Precipitation Anomalies showed that a dry period started in 1981 and still continues. Precipitation variability was strongly dictated by the large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns over the Northern Hemisphere, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, the East Atlantic/West Russia pattern and the Arctic Oscillation, particularly during winter season.

CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE EXTREMES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: A FIXED THRESHOLDS-BASED INDEX ANALYSIS

Author(s): Tatjana Popov,Slobodan Gnjato,Goran Trbić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

The paper analyzes trends in the extreme temperature indices based on fixed thresholds in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1961–2016. Based on data from 12 meteorological stations, trends in both warm and cold temperature indices were determined using the nonparametric Mann-Kendall test and the nonparametric Sen’s slope estimator. The observed tendencies in indices based on fixed thresholds were as expected in a warming world – warm temperature indices (summer days, tropical days and tropical nights) displayed the significant positive trends, whereas cold temperature indices (icing days and frost days) showed the downward tendencies. The annual occurrence of summer days and tropical days increased on average for 5.3 and 4.8 days per decade, respectively, whereas icing days and frost days displayed downward trends in the range of -1.7 and -3.6 days per decade, respectively. The obtained results indicate that the climate system warming was more a result of very pronounced positive trends in the warm temperature indices than the downward tendency of cold ones. The most prominent changes were observed in Banja Luka, Bugojno and Zenica regions. Both trends, positive in warm indices and negative in cold ones, become more pronounced in the 1990s and particularly since the beginning of the 21st century. Further research should focus on the assessment of the observed trends impacts on natural and socio-economic systems.

Channelling Foreign Policy Through Local Activities in China: City of Guangzhou Case Study

Author(s): Dominik Mierzejewski / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Characteristics of the Hănești tornado

Author(s): Dumitru Pancu,Sebastian Pancu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The study of tornadoes on the territory of Romania is recent. That is why we turned to American geographical literature, utilizing the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale which represents the intensity of tornadoes in the United States of America (2007) as well as Canada (2013) based on the damage they cause (damage indicators, or DI). Each damage indicator is correlated with a particular estimated wind speed, depending on their degree of damage (DoD), and lastly the tornado is associated with the maximum intensity of all indicators. Six damage indicators have been analysed. In the case of the last two (27 and 28) it can be clearly seen that wind had reached speeds of 128 - 134 mph, equivalent to 206 - 215 km/h. This means that the tornado that occurred in Hănești was an EF2, being in the interval of 178 - 217 km/h (111 - 135 mph).

Chemical composition of utility water in the arid climate zone on the examples of Kébili and Medenine regions (southern Tunisia)

Author(s): Karolina Sobczak-Szelc,Beata Latos,Anna Szczucińska,Rafał Kozłowski,Krzysztof Skocki / Language(s): English / Issue: 155/2018

Areas located within the hot, arid zone are characterized by extremely low availability of fresh water. In the Tunisian regions of Kébili and Medenine, deep-water sources and connate groundwater constitute its main sources. Surface waters, as well as shallow groundwaters found in those areas, are affected by a high level of salinity, which significantly reduces their use for either drinking or agriculture. Due to intensifying droughts the rainwater accumulation system, neither fulfils the needs of residents nor the developing agriculture. Waters in the oases of El Faour (Kébili) and Beni Kchedeche (Medenine) were analyzed in 2017 to find out their chemical composition, as well as their suitability for irrigation. The chemical composition of the investigated waters is dominated by the Na+, Ca2+, Cl– and SO4 3– ions.

Chromitites from the Sudetic ophiolite: origin and alteration

Author(s): Katarzyna Delura / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2012

This book presents the petrological and chemical features of high-Al chromitites associated with serpentinized ultramafic rocks of mantle origin in the Jordanów-Gogołów and the Braszowice-Brzeźnica massifs (Sudetes Mts., Poland) as well as the metamorphic processes of chromian spinel and associated silicate minerals. Collected data suggest that models of the Sudetic ophiolite formation have to be revised. The monograph is intended for experts and students in the field of Earth sciences.

Circulation epochs based on the Vangengeim-Girs large scale patterns (1891–2010)

Author(s): Jan Degirmendžić,Krzysztof Kożuchowski / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2018

This paper presents the results of an investigation of the variability in macro-circulation forms at the mid-tropospheric level distinguished in the Vangengeim-Girs (V-G) classification. The annual frequencies of circulation forms in the years 1891–2010 proved significant fluctuations, which provided the basis for distinguishing 7 circulation epochs. The epochs illustrate secular changes in the character of dominant forms – zonal circulation (W) prevailed at the turn of the 20th century; meridional forms E and C developed next, and zonal circulation began to dominate again after 1990.

Climate and tourism - between therapy and pathogenesis

Author(s): Elena Teodoreanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The article presents the relationship between the health of the tourist and the climate through two opposing and complementary aspects: forms of tourism therapy and possible pathogenic effects in case of unfavourable weather.