Environmental Geology
Environmental Geology is the use of geological and geophysical methods to image and understand the properties and processes in the top 100 meters of the earth. Our work in environmental geology involves laboratory studies, theoretical modeling, and field work. Environmental geology is an applied science concerned with the practical application of the principles of geology and geophysics in solving environmental problems.
Frequent Chemical analyses include:
- Archeological site delineation
- Define the location of subsurface cavities and tombs.
- Geotechnical and engineering studies to determine the degree of soil cohesion.
- Soil analysis and characterization.
- Ground water exploration, characterization of aquifers, salinity of underground water (fresh and salt water contact).
- Determining the degree of humidity in the rocks.
- Landfill characterization and delineation of the margins of buried waste dumps.
- Studying the locations of the floods' reservoirs and determining the ways to manage them.
- Determining the percentages of radioactive elements thus determining the appropriateness of some areas for the establishment of integrated urban communities.
- Study the movement of sand dunes.
- Location and characterization of near-surface geological structures (pore space, faults, fissures, share zones, lithologic variation.
- Detect the zones of subsurface mineralization in different rocks.