The study was commissioned by the Kenya Water Towers Agency (KWTA) to provide information that would guide the agency in achieving one of its key strategic objectives of providing community livelihood support for sustainable management of water towers. The focus of the study was...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26620
This paper proposes and analyzes a possible scenario of preparation and development of Caldera-forming eruptions of Yellowstone. As a physical mechanism of eruption the imbalance between the column of liquid (magma in the chamber and the conduit) and closed volume of gas (fluid a...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27330
Aims: The purpose of this study is to detect land surface deformation in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone using persistent scatterers interferometric synthetic aperture radar technique. Study Design: This study employed persistent scatterers interferometric synthetic aperture r...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26110
This paper examined the various socio-economic attributes of residents such as gender, age, income, length of stay, occupation, household size among others in Seme border settlements of Nigeria using data collected from a survey of 329 randomly selected residents’ in the study...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25397
The mafic and ultramafic rocks of southwest Obudu, Nigeria are located within the Paleoproterozoic granulites facies rocks of the Bamenda Massif. These mafic and ultramafic rocks were not subjected to high level deformation and metamorphism which the surrounding rocks experienced...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25536
This paper aims to find out the regional pattern of hypsometric curve (HC) and hypsometric integral (HI) over the Kushkarani river basin, a Chhottanagpur plateau fringe low relief basin. The paper also attempted to know how far different driving factors control HI. From the resul...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26588
Sedimentary facies description and sedimentology of parts of the Coastal Swamp Depobelt have been studied using well logs and core data. Five wells designated FABI 001, 002, 003, 004, and 005 were correlated to establish the lateral continuity of the H7000 sand across the field,...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26405
About half of the people that live in developing countries do not have access to safe drinking water and 73% have no sanitation, thus some of their wastes contaminate their drinking water supply leading to a high level of suffering. In view of the foregoing, this study was carrie...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25615
Freshwater springs and natural hot-water springs, alpine, subalpine lakes and the Mediterranean temporary ponds in Mt Oiti and Mt Kallidromos, coastal lakes, lagoons and marshes in the coastal zones of Maliakos gulf, and the protected wetlands that exist in the area of River Sper...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26760
Municipal waste generation and management is a global phenomenon. This paper has critically examined the trends in waste generation and management in Nigerian urban areas. Drawing largely from related works reviewed, the paper has discovered that the rate of waste generation is 2...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26469
It already exists several three-dimensional models dealing with groundwater circulation in karst systems. However, few of them are able either to give a large scale prediction of the repartition of the flow conduits or to make a comparison with real field data. Therefore, our obj...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26688
The study assesses the effects of CO2 emissions on temperature in Nigeria. To actualize this, CO2 and temperature data were generated from field survey of Nigerian cities. Testo 350 flue gas analyzer was used to determine the CO2 in the urban atmospheric environment, while the Ca...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25669
This work investigates the radio refractivity over Awka, South Eastern Nigeria using meteorological parameters of surface air temperature, pressure and relative humidity collected from 2013 – 2014 respectively, using Davis weather station vantage pro 2 (with Integrated Sensor S...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25880
Exponential growth in urban populations has steadily transformed the volume and composition of wastes generated in developing countries in the past few decades. One of the most visible aspects of such transformation is the ubiquity of plastic packaging residues in the waste strea...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25541
The present study is aimed to investigate the distribution and migration of the heavy metals in both ground water and soil profile in Peenya Industrial area. The Peenya Industrial area is considered to be one of the largest and oldest Industrial Area in the South-East Asia. Hence...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26361