The study areas is located in the Northern, central and the southern part of Lagos Lagoon, South western Nigeria, longitude 3° 22' 27.97" to 3° 28' 58.60" East and latitude 6° 27' 41.44" to 6° 35' 42.60" North. Sediment samples were collected from bottom sediments in twelve samp...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20333
River runoff in semi-arid urban watersheds may consist entirely of treated wastewater effluent (dry-weather) and/or urban nonpoint source runoff (wet-weather), which can be a source of nutrients, bacteria, and metals to receiving waters. The purpose of this study is to identify s...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20717
Present research was undertaken to examine the influence of parent materials and land use on exchangeable cations in Edo state, Nigeria. This investigation was carried out with the following objectives (i) to examine the status of exchangeable cations in the soils (ii) to determi...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19600
Terrestrial and marine environments are experiencing pronounced changes. As species and their ecosystems undergo rising temperatures, varying precipitation patterns and alterations in their chemistry and phenology, there is a great deal of added stress on many organisms. Many spe...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20815
The study investigates the distribution and mapping of air pollutants in Benin City using land use and administrative maps, a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques and field sampling. Air sampling for the study covered a period of...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20359
The article aims to highlight the issue that resists to enhance the resilience to climate change and to reduce the vulnerability to natural disasters in most of the developing countries like Pakistan – a country extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and natural ha...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/18706
Aims: The objective of this study is to highlight and document indigenous weather forecasting knowledge of the people of Higher Himalaya in Uttarakhand so that the same could be improvised and used effectively for disaster risk reduction in remote and inaccessible areas. Study De...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19016
The mineralogical characteristics of metacarbonate from the Obajana area were determined with combine petrographic and X-ray diffraction methods. These methods revealed that the marble samples contains major proportion of calcite with minor quartz, dolomite, graphite, pyrite, oli...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19622
Temperature is one of the indicative factors of climate change which is one of the very important issues discussed in the recent two decades. The present research aimed at studying temporal and seasonal variation in temperature over North-eastern Nigeria, during the period 1981–2...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/18512
Groundwater quality prospective zones of Tindivanam Taluk, Tamil Nadu were investigated and delineated by an integrated approach of remote sensing and geographical information system (gis). Various thematic maps like geology, geomorphology, lineament, drainage, land use/land cove...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/18994
Changes in water quality caused by industrialization and technological advancement, affect fishery resources. The Warri River like many other water bodies in the Niger Delta are experiencing side effects in terms of pollutant build up and destruction of fishes resources. Samples...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/18636
This article outlines the prospect of natural gas hydrate in India, its identification, resource estimation and production technologies, and vital challenges associated with the viable production of natural gas from gas hydrates. It contains a brief review of petro-physical and c...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/18860
The present paper discusses with the problem of groundwater given by Boussinesq’s equation infiltration phenomenon in unsaturated porous media. The governing nonlinear partial differential equation is solved using optimal homotopy analysis method. The solution gives a height of f...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/17722
Landfills imbued with heavy elements are major threats to the environment. To assess anthropogenic enrichment, soil, leachate and groundwater samples were collected from active landfills in Lagos and analysed for some heavy elements. The geology of the sampled areas is essentiall...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19197
This research examined the morphology of volcanic craters on the Biu plateau with the aim of understanding their modification and processes acting on them. The objectives of the study are to identify the craters; determine the morphology and the geomorphic processes responsible f...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/17803