This work is about the observation of some cuticles recovered from the fossil Angiosperms leaves collected from the Neyveli lignite mines, the leaves are in compressed form. The fossil cuticles were recovered from the fossil leaves using concentrated Nitric acid with a few cr...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29276
This study uses a high resolution digital orthophoto derived from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial photographs to update the landuse map of the Obafemi Awolowo University Campus while focusing on the built up environment. An aerial survey was conducted in the study area us...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/30025
Subsoil competence evaluation was carried out in Emure Ile area of Ondo State, Southwestern Nigeria, with the aim of evaluating the competence of the subsurface geology in hosting civil engineering structures. Geotechnical investigation involved analysis of six soil samples for m...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29609
In this paper, we investigated the possible interactions of the moon and Earth, mainly in the period 1996-2015. Initially, we considered the gravitational force of Moon vs. Earth by Newton’s equation. The Moon has an elliptical orbit around the planet that reaches two points of...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29227
This study evaluated Opa catchment’s hydrologic response to design precipitations and land use/land cover change. The study involved hydrologic model building, which consisted of basin characteristics’ extraction, meteorological model and control specifications. The basin charact...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29937
One common cause of structural failure is inadequate soil analysis resulting in poor foundation. Therefore in order to prevent failure occurrence of a proposed communication mast and its accessories to be buried within the subsurface at a depth not less than 5 m at Isuada and Iye...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29491
Mining of solid minerals has been a long time primary activity in Nigeria. The paper has reviewed a number of related works and discovered that mining of metallic minerals, particularly tin, columbite, iron ore and lead as well as mineral fuel like coal is on the increase in rece...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26855
This study explored the opportunity offered by geospatial technology to delineate the watershed draining surface water into Opa River, Southwest Nigeria and its tributaries using a selected outlet downstream of Opa reservoir and then carried out extraction of hydrologic character...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29267
Climate change has constituted a global menace to standard of living in many countries of the world. The developing countries including the Africa continent are among the most susceptible to climate change impact. In order to ensure environmental sustainability, food security and...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26416
Giant mafic doleritic dyke swarms crosscut the Mbaoussi granitoid basement to the North of Ngaoundéré, in Adamawa plateau (Cameroon, Central Africa). The dyke swarm orientation might correspond to reworked Late Pan-African fault zones. Mbaoussi doleritic dykes display intergranul...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28198