Environmental Geoscience

Editor-in-Chief
Viktor I. Osipov
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS),
Director of the Institute of Environmental Geoscience, RAS,
Moscow, Russia

Address for correspondence:
Ulanskii per. 13, Moscow, 101000 Russia
Phone: 7-(095) 923-3111; Fax: 7-(095) 923-1886

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
A.A. Varga
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Gidroproekt Institute, Moscow, Russia

Executive Editor-in-Chief
N.A. Rumyantseva
Cand. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Institute of Environmental Geoscience, RAS,
Moscow, Russia

K. Angelov
Dr. Sci., Prof., Academy of Mining Geology, Sofia, Bulgaria

V.V. Baulin
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Operational and Research Institute for Engineering Surveys in Construction, Moscow, Russia

E.D. Ershov
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Prof., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

M. Fukuda
Dr. Sci., Prof., University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan

M. Langer
Dr. Sci., Prof., Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany

G.A. Markov
Dr. Sci. (Tech.), Prof., Higher Certification Committee of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

V.A. Mironenko
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof., Institute of Environmental Geoscience, St. Petersburg, Russia

I.A. Parabuchev
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Gidroproekt Institute, Moscow, Russia

E.M. Pashkin
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Prof., Moscow State Geological Exploration Academy, Moscow, Russia

E.V. Pinneker
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Earth’s Crust, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

E.M. Sergeev^†Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

V.M. Shvets
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Prof., Moscow State Exploration Academy, Moscow, Russia

Wang Sijing
Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology, People’s Republic of Chine

S.D. Voronkevich
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

P. Witherspoon
Dr. Sci., Prof., University of California, Berkeley, USA

P. Williams
Dr. Sci., Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

I.P. Zelinskii
Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Min.), Academician of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine, Odessa State University, Odessa, Ukraine

Address of the Editorial Board:
Maronovskii per. 26, Moscow, 117810 Russia
Phone: 7-(095) 230-7967

Editor of the English Translation
Vladimir A. Ivanov
Phone: 7-(095) 123-8336

Journal published with the financial support of
Hydrogeological Research and Design Firm HYDEC
General Director Dr. B.V. Borevskii

Environmental Geoscience is a journal dealing with the basic and applied aspects of today’s most urgent issue—human-induced changes in the geoenvironment. Its principal objective is the effective solution of geoenvironmental problems involving conservation of the environment, development of its potential, and the improvement of human living conditions. The topics of the papers are: environmental changes under the effect of anthropogenic factors; contamination of ground and surface waters, soils, and rocks; degradation of natural landscapes; the theory and methods of monitoring and prediction of natural and human-induced hazardous processes; geodynamic, seismic, and geoengineering regionalization of terrain; stability of urban areas and industrial agglomerations; utilization of industrial and domestic wastes; planning and use of land and subsurface space; the location and construction of facilities hazardous to the environment; accident-proof functioning of natural and engineering systems (dams, nuclear power plants, irrigation systems, and major industrial facilities); geoenvironmental problems of safe underground disposal of radioactive and other environmentally hazardous wastes; geoenvironmental problems of development of mineral deposits; recovery of mining wastes; remediation of contaminated terrain; support for an environmentally sound policy of utilization of mineral resources and managerial decisions for sustainable development; geoenvironmental conditions and human health; and the application of novel technologies to studying geoenvironmental problems. The papers written by scientists from Russia and other countries are intended for specialists in the natural sciences engaged in research, educational and operational organizations.

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