Editors
Editors
FOUNDER
Abdullah M. Al-Amri, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Abdullah M. Al-Amri, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
PUBLISHING DIRECTOR
Alexandrine Cheronet, Springer Nature
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Anushree Kulkarni, Applied Sciences, Springer
JOURNAL EDITORIAL OFFICE (SUBMISSION SYSTEM & PRODUCTION)
Judith Gonzales: JEO Assistant, SPi Global, Manila, Philippines
Joseph Villarosa: JEO Production Coordinator, SPi Global, Manila, Philippines
TOPICAL CHIEF EDITORS
T 1 : Domenico Doronzo : Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
T 2 : Haytham Ei Atfy: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universität Munster, Germany
T 3 : Sami Khomsi: King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
T 4 : Murat Karakus: University of Adelaide, Australia
T 5 : Biswajeet Pradhan: University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
T 6 : Amjad Kallel: ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
T 7 : Issa El-Hussain: Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
T 8 : Michael Zhdanov: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
T 9 : Broder J. Merkel: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany
T 10 : Santanu Banerjee: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
T 11 : Zeynal Abiddin Erguler: Dumlupinar University, Kutahya, Turkey
T 12 : Attila Çiner: Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
GEOSCIENCE TOPICS: CHIEF & ASSOCIATE EDITORS
TOPIC 1: Petrology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Volcanology
CHIEF EDITOR: Domenico Doronzo, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Asghar Ali: University Of Peshawar, Pakistan
Gültekin Çoşkun: Cumhuriyet Universitesi, Turkey
Mohmad Babar Shaikh: Dnyanopasak College, Parbhani, India
John S. Armstrong-Altrin: The National Autonomous University, Mexico
Roberto Braga: Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane: Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
Ciro Cucciniello: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Fuat Erkül: Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Antalya, Turkey
Yalcin Ersoy: Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
Nicolas Greggio: University of Bologna, Italy
Federico Lucci: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Giovanni Mongelli: Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
Emanuela Schingaro: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
TOPIC 2: Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoecology and Geo-archaeology
CHIEF EDITOR: Haytham El Atfy, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Shahid Ghazi: University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Sherif Farouk: Egyptian Petroleum Institute, Egypt
Sahar Younis J. Mohammad: College of Science, Iraq
Jayagopal Madhavaraju: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Sivaprakasam Vasudevan: Annamalai University, India
Haroun Chenchouni: Higher National School of Forests, Khenchela, Algeria
Ahmed Debez: Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj-Cedria, CBBC, Tunisia
Saddam Hussain: Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Sandeep Panda: Gujarat Biotechnology University (GBU), Gandhinagar, India
TOPIC 3: Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics
CHIEF EDITOR: Sami Khomsi: King Abdulaziz Univ., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Shifa Zhu: China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China
Mohammed Ishag Abdallsamed: University of Kordofan, Sudan
Ramamoorthy Ayyamperumal: Lanzhou University, China
Hatem Farouk Ewida: PERENCO North Sinai Petroleum Co. Egypt
Giovanni Barreca: University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Wilfried Bauer: German University of Technology in Oman, Athaibah, Oman
Eugenio Fazio: University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Vincenzo Festa: University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Zakaria Hamimi: Benha University, Benha, Egypt
Yangwen Pei: School of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China
Afroz Shah: University Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei
TOPIC 4: Economic Ores, Mining and Geomechanics
CHIEF EDITOR: Murat Karakus, University of Adelaide, Australia
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Muhammad Hassan Agheem: University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
Abdelhak Boutaleb: University of technology and sciences Houari Boumediene, Algeria
Gültekin Çoşkun: Natural Stone Cumhuriyet Universitesi, Turkey
Suresh Gandhi: University of Madras, India
A. Mouraz Miranda: Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Khalid Amrouch: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Hakan Basarir: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
Feng Dai: Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Sebnem Duzgun: Colorado School of Mines, USA
Wissem Frikha: National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia
Ali Karrech: The University of Western Australia, Australia
Mehmet Kizil: UQ, Brisbane, Australia
Petr Konicek: Academy of Sciences of the CR, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic
Pinnaduwa Kulatilake: University of Arizona, USA
Rudrajit Mitra: Wits University, South Africa
Umit Ozer: Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
Pengzhi Pan: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Atsushi Sainoki: Kumamoto University, Japan
Krzysztof Tajduś: Polish Acadamy of Sciences, Poland
Erkan Topal: Curtin University, Australia
TOPIC 5: Geo-Informatics, Remote Sensing and Geomorphology
CHIEF EDITOR: Biswajeet Pradhan, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Veysel Turan: Bingol University, Turkey
Bayes Ahmed: IRDR, University College London (UCL), UK
Wael Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Kawy : Cairo Univ. Egypt
Shibiao Bai: Nanjing Normal University,China
Riheb Hadji: university of Séti, Algeria
Yacine Achour : Universite de Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria
Ayad Ali Faris: Mustansiriyah University, Iraq
Ashutosh Bhardwaj: Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, India
Halil Ibrahim Burgan: Akdeniz University, Turkey
Pablo Cienfuegos: School of Mines of Oviedo, Spain
Danfeng Hong: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Salahuddin M. Jaber: Hashemite University, Jordan
Ishfaq Hussain Malik: University of Leeds, UK
Babak Mohammadi: Lund University, Sweden
Morufu Olalekan Raimi: Niger Delta University , Nigeria
Rajendra Singh: CSIR-CIMFR, India
Stefan Grab: University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Mohammad Al-Amin Hoque: Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Amin Beiranvand Pour: University Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Malaysia
Hesham El-Askary: Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, USA
Matteo Gentilucci: Università degli Studi di Camerino, Italy
Hyung-Sup Jung: University of Seoul, South Korea
Mahesh Kumar Jat: Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India
Saro Lee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea
Nilanchal Patel: Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Dursun Zafer Şeker: Istanbul Technical Tniversity, Civil Engineering Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
Sudhir Kumar Singh: Nehru Science Centre, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Silvia Liberata Ullo: Università degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento, Italy
Mustafa Ustuner: Artvin Coruh University, Artvin, Turkey
Davide Baioni: Università degli Studi "CarloBo" di Urbino, Italy
Mohamed Elhag: King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ailsa Hardie: Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach: The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Yaser Ostovari: Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Adriano Ribolini: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra,Università di Pisa, Italy
TOPIC 6: Environmental Geosciences and Climatology
CHIEF EDITOR: Amjad Kallel, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Mansour S. Alhumimidi: Ministry of Env., Waters and Agriculture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Tawanda Zvarivadza: Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
Ali Al-Dousari: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat, Kuwait
Teresa Albuquerque: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
Rahim Barzegar: Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada
Zhihua Zhang: Shandong University, Jinan, China
Paromita Chakraborty: SRM Inst. of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
Sudip Chakraborty: University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Saeid Eslamian: Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
Shah Fahad: Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan, China
Frédéric Feder: CIRAD, UPR Recyclage et Risque, Montpellier, France
Eric D. van Hullebusch: Inst. de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Cezary Kabała: Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
Komali Kantamaneni: University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Mahjoor A. Lone: Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Atiqur Rahman: Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Daniele Contini: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, NRC Italy, Lecce, Italy
Muhammad Jawed Iqbal: University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
Abdelkader Mezghani: Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway
Zhien Zhang: The Ohio State University, US
Huakun Zhou: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
TOPIC 7: Earthquakes, Induced and Exploration Seismology
CHIEF EDITOR: Issa El-Hussain, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Muhammad Irfan Ehsan: Peking University School of Earth and Space Sciences, China
Fahad Mahmood: E & ES, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan
Nasir Khan: IGG-CUG, China
Rouzbeh Dabiri: Islamic Azad University Tabriz, Iran
Ali Firoozi: University of Botswana, Botswana
Hakan Güneyli: Cukurova Universitesi Muhendislik Mimarlik Fakultesi, Turkey
Ryad Darawcheh: Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Syria
Syed Mohammad Talha Qadri: University of Toronto, Canada
Longjun Dong: Central South University, Changsha, China
Abdelaziz K. Abdelaal: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait
Panjamani Anbazhagan: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Mohamed Amrouche: Schlumberger, Tokyo, Japan
Ali Dehghani: University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Mehdi Eshagh: University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
Jianping Huang: China University of Petroleum, Dongying, China
Mustapha Meghraoui: University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Tony Nemer: American University of Beirut, Department of Geology, Lebanon
TOPIC 8: Applied and Theoretical Geophysics
CHIEF EDITOR: Michael Zhdanov, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Fouzan A. Al-Fouzan: King Abdulaziz City for Sciences and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sultan Awad Araffa: National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Egypt
Tarek Arafa, Hamed: National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Egypt
Fengrui Sun: China University of Petroleum Beijing, China
Francisco Barboza: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil
Mohamed Gobashy: Cairo University, Egypt
Mohammad Ahmad Shehata: Kyushu University, China
Ibrahim Mohamad Al-Alfy: Egyptian Nuclear Materials Authority, Egypt
Said Gaci: GGR, Institut Algerien du Petrole, Algeria
Óscar Pueyo Anchuela: Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Ahmed Eid Radwan: Jagiellonian University, Poland
Govand Sherwani: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Iraq
Narasimman Sundararajan: Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Enamundram Chandrasekhar: Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Arkoprovo Biswas: Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
V. Chakravarthi: University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Li Zhen Cheng: Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Jianxiong Chen: Anadarko Petroleum, Houston, TX, USA
Gordon Cooper: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mohammed Farfour: Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Nur Islami: University of Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Abdelaziz Mridekh: Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco
Bassem S. Nabawy: National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
El Arbi Toto: Geology Department, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco
Dikun Yang: Southern University of Science and Technology, China
TOPIC 9: Hydrogeology, Hydrology and Hydrochemistry
CHIEF EDITOR: Broder J. Merkel, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Basim Sh. Abed: University of Baghdad, Iraq
Muthukrishnan Arumugam Achari: Government of Tamil Nadu, India
Mohammad Ayaz Alam: Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
Imran Ali: Jamia Millia Islamia, India
laheab A. Al-Maliki: University of Kufa, Iraq
Salim Heddam: University 20 Août 1955 SKIKDA Route EL HADAIK, Algeria
Djamil Al-Halbouni: Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany
Imran Ali: Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, India
Maurizio Barbieri: University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Helder I. Chaminé: School of Engineering - ISEP, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Mingjie Chen: Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Tajudeen Muhammad Iwalewa: Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Ozgur Kisi: Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Elango Lakshmanan: Dept. of Geology, Anna University, Chennai(Madras), India
Pradeep Naik: Rajiv Gandhi National Ground Water Training & Research Institute, India
Mohamed Ouessar: Institut des Régions Arides (IRA), Médenine,Tunisia
Fernando A.L. Pacheco: Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro University – UTAD, Portugal
Mohammad Valipour: Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Haw Yen: Blackland Research & Extension Center, Texas A&M University, USA
Lahcen Zouhri: Institut Polytechnique La Salle Beauvais, France
TOPIC 10: Petroleum Geosciences, Seismic Stratigraphy and Energy
CHIEF EDITOR: Santanu Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Mohamed Khalifa: Libyan Academy of Postgraduate Studies, Libya
K. Kadir Eriş: Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Jens Lehmann: Bremen University, Germany
Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro: Catalan Institute IPHES, Tarragona, Spain
Ali Mohammadi: Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Faruk Ocakoğlu: Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
Aitor Payros: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Leioa, Spain
Pablo J. Pazos: Department of Geological Sciences, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Vincenzo Picotti: ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Tawanda Zvarivadza: Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
Milad Arabloo: University of Calgary, AB, Canada
Barry Jay Katz: Chevron Corporation, USA
Jayagopal Madhavaraju: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Sonora, Mexico
Ray Rui: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Amin Shokrollahi: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Liang Xiao: China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
Mehdi Ostadhassan: Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, China
Zheng Sun: China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
Qing You: China University of Geosciences Beijing , China
TOPIC 11: Geological, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering
CHIEF EDITOR: Zeynal Abiddin Erguler, Dumlupinar University, Kutahya, Turkey
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Sohaib Kareem AL-Mamoori: University of Kufa, Iraq
Ahmet Gunes Yardimci: Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Kamil Bekir Afacan: Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey
laheab A. Al-Maliki: University of Kufa, Iraq
Manoj Namdeo Bagde: CSIR-Central Institute of Mining, India
Riad Benzaid : Université de Jijel, Algeria
Ali Firoozi: University of Botswana, Botswana
Quan Jiang: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wei Liu: Soochow University, China
Gencay Sarıışık: Harran Universitesi, Turkey
Nurhan Ecemis Zeren: Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, Izmir, Turkey
Melih GENİŞ: Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University (ZBEU), Turkey
Dave Giles: University of Portsmouth, UK
Ahmet Karakaş: Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
Lysandros Pantelidis: Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
Giacomo Pepe: Universistà di Genova, Genova, Italy
Pijush Samui: NIT, Patna, India
Mehmet Sarı: Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey
Amin Soltani: Federation University Australia, Australia
Abbas Taheri: Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada
Hakan Tunçdemir: Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Kejun Wen: Jackson State University, USA
TOPIC 12: Marine Sciences, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy and Geochronology
CHIEF EDITOR: Attila Çiner, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Ali Abd El Latif Mesaed: King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Govand Sherwani: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Iraq
Basim Sh. Abed: University of Baghdad, Iraq
Ramamoorthy ayyamperumal: Lanzhou University, China
Korhan Ayrancı: King Fahd University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Christopher Berndt: University of Jena, Germany
Patricia L. Ciccioli: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Francesco Dela Pierre: University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Ahmet Evren Erginal: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
K. Kadir Eriş: Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Daidu Fan: Tongji University, China
Bruno Ferré: Independent Geologist, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Xiumian Hu: Nanjing University, China
Moha Ikenne: University Ibn Zohr, Morocco
Jens Lehmann: Bremen University, Germany
Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro: Catalan Institute IPHES, Tarragona, Spain
Ali Mohammadi: Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Faruk Ocakoğlu: Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
Aitor Payros: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Herriko Unibertsitatea, Leioa, Spain
Pablo J. Pazos: Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Vincenzo Picotti: ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Luisa Sabato: Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
Georg Schwamborn: Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
İsmail Ömer Yılmaz: Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Dalila Zaghbib-Turki: University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Franck Bassinot: LSCE (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Gurumurthy Gundiga: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, India
Alper Gürbüz: Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey
Serkan Üner: Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van, Turkey