1. Hydrochemical, isotopic and statistical characteristics of groundwater nitrate pollution in Damascus Oasis (Syria)

   • Boulos Abou Zakhem
   • Rania Hafez

   Original Article 12 March 2015 Pages: 2781 - 2797

   

2. Blast-induced air and ground vibration prediction: a particle swarm optimization-based artificial neural network approach

   • Mohsen Hajihassani
   • Danial Jahed Armaghani
   • Aminaton Marto

   Original Article 17 March 2015 Pages: 2799 - 2817

   

3. Identification of the sources for groundwater salinization in the coastal aquifers of Southern Tamil Nadu, India

   • V. Pratheepa
   • S. Ramesh
   • A. G. Murugesan

   Original Article 26 March 2015 Pages: 2819 - 2829

   

4. Assessment of Egypt’s Red Sea coastal sensitivity to climate change

   • Mohamed E. Hereher

   Original Article 24 March 2015 Pages: 2831 - 2843

   

5. Feasibility of ANFIS model for prediction of ground vibrations resulting from quarry blasting

   • Danial Jahed Armaghani
   • Ehsan Momeni
   • Manoj Khandelwal

   Original Article 25 March 2015 Pages: 2845 - 2860

   

6. Multi-element pollution in soil, ground and surface water from abandoned chromate chemical plants: a case study in Hangzhou, China

   • Lina Zou
   • Shaoxian Wang
   • Jiyan Shi

   Original Article 10 April 2015 Pages: 2861 - 2870

   

7. Transport and biodegradation modeling of gasoline spills in soil–aquifer system

   • Zengguang Xu
   • Junrui Chai
   • Ronggao Qin

   Original Article 27 March 2015 Pages: 2871 - 2882

   

8. Period analysis and trend forecast for soil temperature in the Qinghai-Xizang Highway by wavelet transformation

   • Siru Gao
   • Qingbai Wu

   Original Article 27 March 2015 Pages: 2883 - 2891

   

9. Groundwater pollution by arsenic and other toxic elements in an abandoned silver mine, Mexico

   • M. V. Esteller
   • E. Domínguez-Mariani
   • M. Avilés

   Original Article 26 March 2015 Pages: 2893 - 2906

   

10. The impact of land use and land cover change on net primary productivity on China’s Sanjiang Plain

    • Guotao Dong
    • Juan Bai
    • Zhiwei Wang

    Original Article 26 April 2015 Pages: 2907 - 2917

    

11. Human comfort evaluation criteria for blast planning

    • Shihai Chen
    • Zihua Zhang
    • Jian Wu

    Original Article 29 March 2015 Pages: 2919 - 2923

    

12. Distribution and temporal variation of PCBs and PAHs in soils and sediments from an e-waste dismantling site in China

    • Yuanyuan Gao
    • Yingying Wang
    • Qixing Zhou

    Original Article 21 April 2015 Pages: 2925 - 2935

    

13. Analyzing geophysical signature of a hydrocarbon-contaminated soil using geoelectrical surveys

    • Sylvester Koroma
    • Alessandro Arato
    • Alberto Godio

    Original Article 03 April 2015 Pages: 2937 - 2948

    

14. Total vulnerability estimation for the Tabriz aquifer (Iran) by combining a new model with DRASTIC

    • Abdorreza Vaezihir
    • Mehri Tabarmayeh

    Original Article 12 April 2015 Pages: 2949 - 2965

    

15. Assessment of effect of pH, temperature and organic matter on zinc mobility in a hydromorphic soil

    • Rim Azouzi
    • Abdelkrim Charef
    • Ahmed Hichem Hamzaoui

    Original Article 31 March 2015 Pages: 2967 - 2980

    

16. Modeling sanitary boundaries of drinking water wells on the Caspian Sea southern coasts, Iran

    • V. Gholami
    • H. Aghagoli
    • A. M. Kalteh

    Original Article 01 April 2015 Pages: 2981 - 2990

    

17. Geotechnical evaluation of Ankara clay as a compacted clay liner

    • İlker Met
    • Haluk Akgün

    Original Article 04 April 2015 Pages: 2991 - 3006

    

18. Tectonic geomorphology of High Zagros Ranges, SW Iran: an initiative towards seismic hazard assessment

    • Ali Faghih
    • Akbar Esmaeilzadeh Soudejani
    • Sara Rokni

    Original Article 28 March 2015 Pages: 3007 - 3017

    

19. Assessment of heavy metal contamination risk in soils of landfill of Bizerte (Tunisia) with a focus on application of pollution indicators

    • Abdelwaheb Aydi

    Original Article 27 March 2015 Pages: 3019 - 3027

    

20. Source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in roadway and stormwater system maintenance residues

    • Edmund Azah
    • Hwidong Kim
    • Timothy Townsend

    Original Article 09 April 2015 Pages: 3029 - 3039

    

21. Hydrochemical disturbances measured in groundwater during the construction and operation of a large-scale underground facility in deep crystalline rock in Japan

    • Teruki Iwatsuki
    • Hiroki Hagiwara
    • Hironori Onoe

    Original Article Open access 08 April 2015 Pages: 3041 - 3057

    

22. Extraction of diesel from contaminated soil using subcritical water

    • Mohammad Nazrul Islam
    • Ha-Seung Park
    • Jeong-Hun Park

    Original Article 31 March 2015 Pages: 3059 - 3066

    

23. Geochemical characteristics of groundwater in different climatic zones of Sri Lanka

    • Ruvini Rubasinghe
    • S. K. Gunatilake
    • Rohana Chandrajith

    Original Article 31 March 2015 Pages: 3067 - 3076

    

24. Physiological approaches to determine the impact of climate changes on invasive African grasses in the savanna ecoregion of Brazil

    • Ana Paula de Faria
    • Geraldo Wilson Fernandes
    • Marcel Giovanni Costa França

    Original Article 07 April 2015 Pages: 3077 - 3088

    

25. Reducing riverbed infiltration using mixtures of sodium bentonite and clay

    • Chunfa Zhou
    • Xiaoxuan Fan
    • Yunkai Li

    Original Article 04 April 2015 Pages: 3089 - 3098

    

26. The application of quantitative fluorescent dye tracing to evaluate karst hydrogeologic response to varying recharge conditions in an urban area

    • Douglas Gouzie
    • James Berglund
    • Kevin L. Mickus

    Original Article 04 April 2015 Pages: 3099 - 3111

    

27. Multiple metal-resistant bacteria and fungi from acidic copper mine tailings of Xinjiang, China

    • Deepika Kumari
    • Xiangliang Pan
    • M. Golam Mortuza

    Original Article 17 April 2015 Pages: 3113 - 3121

    

28. Monitoring and analysis of aeolian desertification dynamics from 1975 to 2010 in the Heihe River Basin, northwestern China

    • Xiang Song
    • Tao Wang
    • Sen Li

    Original Article 01 May 2015 Pages: 3123 - 3133

    

29. Tourism positioning using decision support system (case study: Chahnime—Zabol, Iran)

    • Malihe Erfani
    • Shahram Afrougheh
    • Asiyeh Sadeghi

    Original Article 08 April 2015 Pages: 3135 - 3144

    

30. Water quality deterioration as a driver for river restoration: a review of case studies from Asia, Europe and North America

    • Vidhya Chittoor Viswanathan
    • Mario Schirmer

    Original Article 05 April 2015 Pages: 3145 - 3158

    

31. Assessment of the radiological impacts of treated phosphogypsum used as the main constituent of building materials in Jordan

    • Mohammad Salem Al-Hwaiti

    Original Article 08 April 2015 Pages: 3159 - 3169

    

32. Hydrochemical characterisation of water quality in the Sarcheshmeh copper complex, SE Iran

    • Sajjad Jannesar Malakooti
    • Majid Shahhosseini
    • Mohammad Noaparast

    Original Article 10 April 2015 Pages: 3171 - 3190

    

33. Assessment of the metals contamination and their grading by SAW method: a case study in Sarcheshmeh copper complex, Kerman, Iran

    • Ali Rezaei
    • Mohammadreza Shayestehfar
    • Mohammad Reza Tavakoli Mohammadi

    Original Article Open access 10 April 2015 Pages: 3191 - 3205

    

34. Deterioration mechanisms of the compact clay-bearing limestone of Tournai used in the Romanesque portals of the Tournai Cathedral (Belgium)

    • Laurent Fontaine
    • Roel Hendrickx
    • Hilde De Clercq

    Original Article 07 April 2015 Pages: 3207 - 3221

    

35. The influence of the water saturation on the strength of volcanic tuffs used as building stones

    • Mustafa Yavuz Çelik
    • Ayşe Ergül

    Original Article 04 April 2015 Pages: 3223 - 3239

    

36. Simulating the impact of subsurface dam construction on the change of nitrate distribution

    • R. Lalehzari
    • S. H. Tabatabaei

    Original Article 12 April 2015 Pages: 3241 - 3249

    

37. Integrated geochemical and microbiological approach to water quality assessment: case study of the Enyigba metallogenic province, South-eastern Nigeria

    • Ogbonnaya Igwe
    • Ekundayo Joseph Adepehin
    • Jemima Omonigho Adepehin

    Original Article 03 April 2015 Pages: 3251 - 3262

    

38. Groundwater classification and its suitability in Kadaladi, Ramanathapuram, India using GIS techniques

    • N. Balasubramanian
    • P. Sivasubramanian
    • B. Gowtham

    Original Article 18 April 2015 Pages: 3263 - 3285

    

39. Mineralogical, hydrogeochemical and isotopic characteristics of the Žveplenica sulphide karstic spring (Trebuša Valley, NW Slovenia)

    • Mojca Zega
    • Boštjan Rožič
    • Timotej Verbovšek

    Original Article 05 April 2015 Pages: 3287 - 3300

    

40. Hydrogeochemistry of Dal Lake and the potential for present, future management by using facies, ionic ratios, and statistical analysis

    • Mohd Saleem
    • Gh Jeelani
    • Rouf Ahmad Shah

    Original Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 3301 - 3313

    

41. Model test study on monitoring dynamic process of slope failure through spatial sensor network

    • Ping Lu
    • Hangbin Wu
    • Rongxing Li

    Original Article 10 April 2015 Pages: 3315 - 3332

    

42. Experimental apparatus and method to investigate permeability and porosity of shale matrix from Haenam Basin in Korea

    • Hochang Jang
    • Jeonghwan Lee
    • Wonsuk Lee

    Original Article 09 April 2015 Pages: 3333 - 3343

    

43. A new unified failure criterion for unsaturated soils

    • Changguang Zhang
    • Xindong Chen
    • Junhai Zhao

    Original Article 11 April 2015 Pages: 3345 - 3356

    

44. Slope stability analysis based on immunised evolutionary programming

    • Wei Gao

    Original Article 05 April 2015 Pages: 3357 - 3369

    

45. Implementation of the geo-correlation methodology for predictability of catastrophic weather events: long-term US tornado season and short-term hurricanes

    • Lev Eppelbaum
    • Alexander Isakov

    Original Article 14 April 2015 Pages: 3371 - 3383

    

46. Effects of slow-release fertilizers on nitrate leaching, its distribution in soil profile, N-use efficiency, and yield in potato crop

    • H. Zareabyaneh
    • M. Bayatvarkeshi

    Original Article 07 April 2015 Pages: 3385 - 3393

    

47. Application of GIS-based fuzzy logic and rock engineering system (RES) approaches for landslide susceptibility mapping in Selelkula area of the Lower Jema River Gorge, Central Ethiopia

    • Matebie Meten
    • Netra Prakash Bhandary
    • Ryuichi Yatabe

    Original Article 29 April 2015 Pages: 3395 - 3416

    

48. Assessment of the mobile forms of zinc and copper content in soil samples from areas of different land use on example of the Krasnogvardeisky District of the St. Petersburg

    • G. A. Shamilishvili
    • E. V. Abakumov
    • A. G. Ryumin

    Original Article 09 April 2015 Pages: 3417 - 3431

    

49. Application of environmental sensitivity index (ESI) maps of shorelines to coastal oil spills: a case study of Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

    • Doan Quang Tri
    • Nguyen Cao Don
    • P. K. Mishra

    Original Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 3433 - 3451

    

50. Characterization of groundwater contaminant sources in the coastal sand dune aquifer, Prakasam district, A.P. India

    • D. V. Reddy
    • P. Nagabhushanam
    • A. G. S. Reddy

    Original Article 12 April 2015 Pages: 3453 - 3466