A ConvGRU Deep Learning Algorithm to Forecast Global Ionospheric TEC Maps     
Sivakrishna Kondaveeti, P. Mahitha, G. Shivani, and T. Vaishnavi
Estimation of Daily Air Relative Humidity Using a Novel Outlier-Robust Extreme Learning Machine Model: A Case Study of Two Algerian Locations    
Khaled Merabet and Salim Heddam
Significance of Machine Learning in Understanding Earth’s Magnetosphere and Solar Activity     
Manjuleshwar Panda, Yogesh Chandra, and Deepak Pandey
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for the Detection and Analysis of Microplastics and Associated Chemicals in the Atmosphere

The review chapters in this volume were the basis for a short course on the applications of synchrotron radiation in low-temperature geochemistry and environmental science sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Geochemical Society (GS) and Mineralogical Society of America (MSA).

Clays and clay minerals are very important industrial minerals. There are well over one hundred documented industrial applications of clay materials. Clays are utilized in the process industries, in agricultural applications, in engineering and construction applications, in environmental remediations, in geology, and in many other miscellaneous applications. This book is an assimilation of the major and minor uses of clays and clay minerals and explains why an understanding of the structure and physical and chemical attributes of the individual clay minerals are so important. Clay is an abundant raw material which has an amazing variety of uses and properties that are largely dependent on their mineral structure and composition. Other than the clay structure and composition, there are several additional factors which are important in determining the properties and applications of a clay. These are the non-clay mineral composition, the presence of organic material, the type and amount of exchangeable ions and soluble salts, and the texture (Grim, 1950) <...>

This book is a companion to our previous Atlas of Natural and Induced Fractures in Core, moving on from the basic recognition of fracture types described in that volume, which must be the foundation of any fracture study, to explanations of how those fractures form, how they are measured, how they can be assessed, and how they affect reservoirs.

This volume is the summary of decades of experience with industry doing applied fracture studies. It brings together numerous fracture-related topics that are not collected elsewhere. We hope that it will be useful to both academia and industry, and that it is not in the vein of the apocryphal third-grader doing a book report on penguins, who concluded that “This book tells me more than I want to know about penguins.” <...>