Sentence examples for geologic problems from inspiring English sources

BEIJING — The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project and a symbol of China's confidence in risky technological solutions, is troubled by urgent pollution and geologic problems, a high-level government body acknowledged Thursday.

The following discussion will show why this is so, treating in some detail the analytic and geologic problems that have to be overcome if precise ages are to be determined.

In Italy the first Alta Velocità (AV; "High-Speed") line, running the 250 km (150 miles) from Rome to Florence and designed for 300-km- (185-mile) per hour top speed, was finished in 1992; the first segment had been opened in 1977, but progress thereafter had been hampered by funding uncertainties and severe geologic problems encountered in the project's tunneling.

The determination of the most unstable areas in oil fields is critical for addressing engineering problems of wellbore and sand production as well as geologic problems such as understanding dynamic constraints on hydrocarbon migration and fracture permeability.

China has acknowledged that its showcase Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, has caused a slew of urgent environmental, geologic and economic problems.

Environmentalists said it would destroy a stunning landscape of limestone cliffs regarded as one of the world's most scenic sites, and skeptics warned that the new lake would lead to geologic and pollution problems.

Long-term coal mining has created enormous economic benefits, but also caused grievous geological environment problems, such as the deterioration of land resources and water resources, geologic hazards and the destruction of ecological landscape.

Determining the future production potential of a mature oil field is a complex geologic and economic problem.

Environmental geology, field concerned with applying the findings of geologic research to the problems of land use and civil engineering.

Geologic mapping has revealed problems with the new correlations on which this revised lithostratigraphic model is based (e.g.,[29]), indicating that older lithostratigraphic models may have been more accurate.

Quality controlling of the geologic model for errors and problems.