Permeability enhancement in the shallow crust as a cause of earthquake-induced hydrological changes
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The permeability of the earth's shallow crust increases due to the initial hydrological effects, which are caused as a response to an earthquake occurring in that region. Earthquakes produce variations in hydrology such as increase in stream and spring flow. These changes are brought about by processes such as near-surface permeability enhancements and movement of water from the earth's crust because of elastic compression caused by earthquakes.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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The sting in a fractal tail
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Certain aspects of the storage and flushing of groundwater and its contaminants are poorly understood. Contaminated rain from the accident at Chernobyl in 1986 fell as far west as the British Isles. Kirchner and colleagues have studied the storage and flushing of solutes in Plynlimon in mid-Wales, establishing that the watershed shows a clear fractal property, and that some dissolved material would take a long time to be flushed out.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Links between erosion, runoff variability and seismicity in the Taiwan orogen
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The topographic and structural evolution of mountain belts is controlled by their erosion. Erosion rates in Taiwan mountains estimated from modern river sediment loads, Holocene river incision and thermochronometry on a million- year scale is reported.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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