Subject: Geosciences, Volume 15, Issue 8 (August 2025) Table of Contents
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Geosciences, Volume 15, Issue 8 (August 2025)

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Cover Story

Statistical Physics of Fissure Swarms and Dike Swarms
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/301
Agust  Gudmundsson
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 301; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080301

Geochemistry

Isotopes in Archeology: Perspectives on Post-Mortem Alteration and Climate Change
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/307
Antonio  Simonetti and  Michele R. Buzon
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 307; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080307

Geochemical Characteristics of the Hida Granitoids in the Unazuki and Katakaigawa Areas, Central Japan
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/285
Kazuki  Oishi,  Rui  Kuwahara,  Kazuya  Shimooka and  Motohiro  Tsuboi
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 285; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080285

Integrated Application of Radon Measurement and Conventional Electrical Prospecting in Geothermal Exploration: A Case Study of Lantian Section, Ningdu, Jiangxi Province
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/286
Yingying  Zhang,  Gongxin  Chen,  Hailong  Ye and  Ximin  Bai
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 286; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080286

Geophysics

Geodynamic, Tectonophysical, and Structural Comparison of the South Caspian and Levant Basins: A Review
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/281
Lev  Eppelbaum,  Youri  Katz,  Fakhraddin  Kadirov,  Ibrahim  Guliyev and  Zvi  Ben-Avraham
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 281; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080281

Prestack Depth Migration Imaging of Permafrost Zone with Low Seismic Signal–Noise Ratio Based on Common-Reflection-Surface (CRS) Stack
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/276
Ruiqi  Liu,  Zhiwei  Liu,  Xiaogang  Wen and  Zhen  Zhao
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 276; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080276

GS24b and GS24bc Ground Motion Models for Active Crustal Regions Based on a Non-Traditional Modeling Approach
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/277
Vladimir  Graizer and  Scott  Stovall
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 277; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080277

Investigating a Large-Scale Creeping Landmass Using Remote Sensing and Geophysical Techniques—The Case of Stropones, Evia, Greece
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/282
John D. Alexopoulos,  Ioannis-Konstantinos  Giannopoulos,  Vasileios  Gkosios,  Spyridon  Dilalos,  Nicholas  Voulgaris and  Serafeim E. Poulos
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 282; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080282

Machine Learning-Based Soft Data Checking for Subsurface Modeling
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/288
Nataly  Chacon-Buitrago and  Michael J. Pyrcz
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 288; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080288

Subsurface Characterization of the Merija Anticline’s Rooting Using Integrated Geophysical Techniques: Implications for Copper Exploration
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/305
Mohammed  Boumehdi,  Hicham  Khebbi,  Doha  Dchar,  Lahsen  Achkouch,  Anwar Ain Tagzalt,  Nour Eddine Berkat,  Mohammed  Magoua,  Youssef  Hahou and  Othman  Sadki
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 305; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080305

Integrated Geophysical Techniques to Investigate Water Resources in Self-Sustained Carbon-Farming Agroforestry
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/317
John D. Alexopoulos,  Vasileios  Gkosios,  Ioannis-Konstantinos  Giannopoulos,  Spyridon  Dilalos,  Antonios  Eleftheriou and  Simos  Malamis
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 317; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080317

Acoustic Seismic Inversion and Migration for Depth Velocity Model Reconstruction
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/321
Maxim  Protasov and  Danil  Dmitrachkov
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 321; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080321

Least Squares Collocation for Estimating Terrestrial Water Storage Variations from GNSS Vertical Displacement on the Island of Haiti
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/322
Renaldo  Sauveur,  Sajad  Tabibi and  Olivier  Francis
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 322; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080322

Correction: Telesca et al. Statistical Investigation of the 2020&amp;ndash;2023 Micro-Seismicity in Enguri Area (Georgia). Geosciences 2025, 15, 247
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/310
Luciano  Telesca,  Nino  Tsereteli,  Nazi  Tugushi and  Tamaz  Chelidze
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 310; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080310
Natural Hazards

Radon Anomalies and Earthquake Prediction: Trends and Research Hotspots in the Scientific Literature
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/283
Félix  Díaz and  Rafael  Liza
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 283; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080283

Probabilistic Estimates of Extreme Snow Avalanche Runout Distance
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/278
David  McClung and  Peter  Hoeller
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 278; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080278

Geological Hazard Susceptibility Assessment Based on the Combined Weighting Method: A Case Study of Xi’an City, China
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/290
Peng  Li,  Wei  Sun,  Chang-Rao  Li,  Ning  Nan and  Sheng-Rui  Su
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 290; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080290

Landslide Susceptibility Prediction Using GIS, Analytical Hierarchy Process, and Artificial Neural Network in North-Western Tunisia
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/297
Manel  Mersni,  Dhekra  Souissi,  Adnen  Amiri,  Abdelaziz  Sebei,  Mohamed Hédi Inoubli and  Hans-Balder  Havenith
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 297; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080297

Real-Time Foreshock–Aftershock–Swarm Discrimination During the 2025 Seismic Crisis near Santorini Volcano, Greece: Earthquake Statistics and Complex Networks
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/300
Ioanna  Triantafyllou,  Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos,  Constantinos  Siettos and  Konstantinos  Spiliotis
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 300; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080300

Short-Term Geomorphological Changes of the Sabato River (Southern Italy)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/308
Francesca  Martucci,  Floriana  Angelone,  Edoardo G. D’Onofrio,  Filippo  Russo and  Paolo  Magliulo
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 308; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080308

Refining the Concept of Earthquake Precursory Fingerprint
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/319
Alexandru  Szakács
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 319; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080319
Hydrogeology

Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Runoff in a Sub-Regional Basin
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/289
Ndifon M. Agbiji,  Jonah C. Agunwamba and  Kenneth Imo-Imo Israel Eshiet
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 289; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080289

Machine Learning-Driven Calibration of MODFLOW Models: Comparing Random Forest and XGBoost Approaches
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/303
Husam Musa Baalousha
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 303; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080303

Geomechanics

State-of-the-Art Review and Prospect of Modelling the Dynamic Fracture of Rocks Under Impact Loads and Application in Blasting
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/314
Muhammad  Kamran,  Hongyuan  Liu,  Daisuke  Fukuda,  Peng  Jia,  Gyeongjo  Min and  Andrew  Chan
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 314; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080314

Optimizing Rock Bolt Support for Large Underground Structures Using 3D DFN-DEM Method
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/293
Nooshin Senemarian Isfahani,  Amin  Azhari,  Hem B. Motra,  Hamid  Hashemalhoseini,  Mohammadreza Hajian Hosseinabadi,  Alireza  Baghbanan and  Mohsen  Bazargan
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 293; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080293

A Semi-Supervised Approach to Characterise Microseismic Landslide Events from Big Noisy Data
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/304
David  Murray,  Lina  Stankovic and  Vladimir  Stankovic
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 304; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080304

Integrated Capuchin Search Algorithm-Optimized Multilayer Perceptron for Robust and Precise Prediction of Blast-Induced Airblast in a Blasting Mining Operation
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/306
Kesalopa  Gaopale,  Takashi  Sasaoka,  Akihiro  Hamanaka and  Hideki  Shimada
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 306; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080306

Structural Geology and Tectonics

Assessing the Geothermal Potential of a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir (Southern Apennines, Italy): Relationships Between Structural Control and Heat Flow
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/311
Chrysanthi  Pontikou,  Ioannis  Vakalas,  Sotirios  Kokkalas,  Raffaele  Di Cuia,  Angelo  Ricciato and  Giovanni  Toscani
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 311; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080311

Crustal-Scale Duplexes Beneath the Eastern Rioni Foreland Basin in Western Georgia: A Case Study from Seismic Reflection Profile
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/291
Victor  Alania,  Onise  Enukidze,  Nino  Kvavadze,  Tamar  Beridze,  Rusudan  Chagelishvili,  Anzor  Giorgadze,  George  Melikadze and  Alexander  Razmadze
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 291; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080291
Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism

Palaeoclimatic Geoheritage in the Age of Climate Change: Educational Use of the Pleistocene Glacial and Periglacial Geodiversity
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/294
Paweł  Wolniewicz and  Maria  Górska-Zabielska
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 294; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080294

Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Palaeontology

Isotopic Studies in South American Mammals: Thirty Years of Paleoecological Discoveries
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/284
Dánae  Sanz-Pérez,  Rodrigo L. Tomassini and  Manuel  Hernández Fernández
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 284; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080284

Relative Sea Level Changes in the Bay of Maladroxia, Southwestern Sardinia, and Their Implications for the Pre- and Protohistoric Cultures
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/287
Steffen  Schneider,  Marlen  Schlöffel,  Anna  Pint and  Constance  von Rüden
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 287; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080287

Seasonal Sea Surface Temperatures from Mercenaria spp. During the Plio-Pleistocene: Oxygen Isotope Versus Clumped Isotope Paleothermometers
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/295
Garrett F. N. Braniecki,  Donna  Surge and  Ethan G. Hyland
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 295; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080295

What Are US Undergraduates Taught and What Have They Learned About US Continental Crust and Its Sedimentary Basins?
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/296
Clinton Whitaker Crowley and  Robert James Stern
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 296; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080296

Palynostratigraphy of the “Muschelkalk Sedimentary Cycle” in the NW Iberian Range, Central Spain
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/299
Manuel  García-Ávila,  Soledad  García-Gil and  José B. Diez
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 299; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080299

Pliocene Marine Bivalvia from Vale Farpado (Pombal, Portugal): Palaeoenvironmental and Palaecological Significance
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/309
Ricardo J. Pimentel,  Pedro M. Callapez,  Mahima  Pai,  Paulo  Legoinha and  Pedro A. Dinis
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 309; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080309

A Sediment Provenance Study of Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous Strata in the Eastern Sverdrup Basin: Implications for the Exhumation of the Northeastern Canadian-Greenlandic Shield
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/313
Michael A. Pointon,  Helen  Smyth,  Jenny E. Omma,  Andrew C. Morton,  Simon  Schneider,  Stephen J. Rippington,  Berta  Lopez-Mir,  Quentin G. Crowley,  Dirk  Frei and  Michael J. Flowerdew
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 313; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080313

New Geochemical Insights into Pre-Khorat Paleoenvironments: A Case Study of Triassic–Jurassic Reddish Sedimentary Rocks in Thailand
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/324
Vimoltip  Singtuen,  Burapha  Phajuy and  Punya  Charusiri
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 324; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080324

Climate and Environment

Impact of Aerosols on Cloud Microphysical Processes: A Theoretical Review
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/312
Kécia Maria Roberto da Silva,  Dirceu Luís Herdies,  Paulo Yoshio Kubota,  Caroline  Bresciani and  Silvio Nilo Figueroa
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 312; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080312

Microclimate Variability in a Highly Dynamic Karstic System
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/280
Diego  Gil,  Mario  Sánchez-Gómez and  Joaquín  Tovar-Pescador
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 280; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080280

Cryosphere

Testing Satellite Snow Cover Observations Using Time-Lapse Camera Images in Mid-Latitude Mountain Ranges (Northern Spain)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/316
Adrián  Melón-Nava and  Javier  Santos-González
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 316; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080316

General

Extending the Rock Cycle to a Cosmic Scale
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/327
Andrea  Vitrano,  Nicola  Mari,  Daniele  Musumeci,  Luigi  Ingaliso and  Francesco  Vetere
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 327; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080327

Enhancing Multi-Step Reservoir Inflow Forecasting: A Time-Variant Encoder–Decoder Approach
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/279
Ming  Fan,  Dan  Lu and  Sudershan  Gangrade
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 279; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080279

Determination of the Magnetic Field Coordinates of BMM Sensors Under a Collapsed Rock Mass Array for Assessing Ore Body Contour Displacement
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/292
Andrey O. Shigin,  Danil S. Kudinov,  Ekaterina A. Kokhonkova and  Vyacheslav V. Romanov
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 292; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080292

H2 Transport in Sedimentary Basin
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/298
Luisa  Nicoletti,  Juan Carlos Hidalgo,  Dariusz  Strąpoć and  Isabelle  Moretti
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 298; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080298

Quantitative Relationship Between Electrical Resistivity and Water Content in Unsaturated Loess: Theoretical Model and ERT Imaging Verification
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/302
Hu  Zeng,  Qianli  Zhang,  Cui  Du,  Jie  Liu and  Yilin  Li
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 302; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080302

GIS-Based Process Automation of Calculating the Volume of Mineral Extracted from a Deposit
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/315
Anna  Szafarczyk and  Michał  Siwek
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 315; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080315

Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analysis of the Columbretes Grande Turbidite Channel (Ebro Continental Margin, NW Mediterranean)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/318
José Luis Casamor
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 318; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080318

The High-Precision Monitoring of Mining-Induced Overburden Fractures Based on the Full-Space Inversion of the Borehole Resistivity Method: A Case Study
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/320
Zhongzhong  Xu,  Jiulong  Cheng and  Hongpeng  Zhao
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 320; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080320

Aeolian Saltation Flux Profiles: Comparison of Representation and Measurement Methods
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/323
Douglas J. Sherman,  Jinsu  Bae,  Jean T. Ellis,  Christy  Swann,  Eric J. R. Parteli,  Eugene  Farrell,  Bailiang  Li,  Ascânio Dias Araújo,  Alexandre Medeiros de Carvalho,  Diane L. Sherman and  Pei  Zhang
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 323; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080323

Machine Learning for Reservoir Quality Prediction in Chlorite-Bearing Sandstone Reservoirs
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/325
Thomas E. Nichols,  Richard H. Worden,  James E. Houghton,  Joshua  Griffiths,  Christian  Brostrøm and  Allard W. Martinius
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 325; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080325

Detecting the Occurrence and Explaining the Origin of Lithologic Discontinuities in Low-Mountain Soils: An Example from the Carpathians, Southern Poland
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/8/326
Andrzej  Kacprzak and  Marek  Kasprzak
Geosciences 2025, 15(8), 326; DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15080326

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