Development of scientific and technological support for subsurfaceassessment for ore minerals

The problems of scientific and technological support of the geological exploration industry are considered. The factors affecting the replenishment and expansion of the mineral base of Kazakhstan and some other countries are analyzed. The need for the scientific and technological development compliance with the global scientific trend (cross-disciplines, mathematization and digitalization areas) is emphasized. The main difficulties related to forecasting of concealed ore deposits as well as methodological, physical and geological aspects of these activities are considered. A basic model of ore formation is proposed and the mutual spatial arrangement of ore deposits is analyzed. The concept of constructing an information geological space model (GSM) is considered. The prospective directions of developing the technology for concealed deposits forecasting are shown.

THE NAMES OF DEPOSITS AND MINES IN PERM KRAI: HISTORY, REGIONAL SPECIFICS

The article deals with industrial toponymy of the Perm region – the historical and modern names of deposits and mines of natural resources (coal, iron, copper, oil). This group of toponyms of the anthropogenic landscape is described thematically, studied in terms of its origin, and characterized as a carrier of historical and cultural information about the region’s economic development. In the description provided, the names are grouped according to the object of nomination – the older names of the deposits of coal, copper and iron and the relatively recent names of the gas and oil fields. Within these groups, we study historical and recent names, which are grouped according to the geography of distribution, trace their origin, associated with the development of the mining industry of the region. We have established that the dominant role in the formation of the names of the deposits belongs to metonymy, with the help of which the correspondence between the objects of space is indicated by means of association by contiguity. The paper describes the groups of toponyms that perform identificatory, localizing, and memorial functions (with the last one being aimed at commemorating significant events, discoverers and outstanding people). The function most important for industrial toponymy is the nominative functions itself. In a number of cases, the studied names are considered to be a reflection of mental ideas about the division of geological space by a person. It is concluded that that the names of the deposits reflect the main stages of the region’s economic development and are of certain interest for the study of the historical, cultural and linguistic specifics of the region. In order to obtain cultural information on these names, it is important to take into account their close relationship with hydronyms, oikonyms, as well as with anthroponymic names (names, surnames, nicknames).

Reliability of underground storage of hydrogen together with methane in terrigenous geological formations

The main natural sources of hydrogen and associated gases – carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide – for storing hydrogen together with methane in geological formations are examined. The role of the main hydrochemical and microbiological processes that cause risks of leakage and loss of hydrogen due to the activation of physicochemical and microbiological reactions that affect deformation changes in the surrounding geological space of underground reservoirs is shown.

Geological and geophysical system “tectonics-seismicity” of the unique Khailinsk center of high-magnet swarm. South-west of the Koryak seismic belt

Хаилинский центр уникальное явление в Корякском сейсмическом поясе, который обрамляет на севере литосферную плиту Берингию. Он создан роем Хаилинского и Олюторского землетрясений и афтершоков с М 5,07,6. Центр лежит в погруженной глыбе литосферы Олюторского залива, созданной межглыбовыми СЗ разломами на бортах трога с глубиной 82 км в рельефе литосферы. На трог надвинуты морские террейны с максимальным прогибом горизонтов литосферы в их килях, через которые проходит колонна с гипоцентрами землетрясений. Высокомагнитудный рой землетрясений Хаилинского Центра имеет взаимно ортогональные эллипсы афтершоков при общих эпицентрах главных толчков. Хаилинское землетрясение не проявило традиции связи эллипса релаксации афтершоков с известной геологией афтершоков в плане и разрезе. События столь мощные, не увязанные с очевидной геологической структурой представляются очевидной новинкой в мировой горнодобывающей практике. Анализ Хаилинского и Олюторского событий выявил коллизию двух фактов: совпадение эпицентров и полную ортогональность облаков обоих землетрясений. Их исследование как элементов одной системы тектоника-сейсмичность определило геологическое пространство положения гипоцентров. Интерес к сейсмичности Хаилинского высокомагнитудного центра рассматривается как обращение в геологии окраины к уникальной малой литосферной плите Берингия в сейсмологии СВ Азии. В основу исследования системы тектоника-сейсмичность положена концепция сейсмогенной тектоники территории активной окраины континента СВ Азии и места в ней Хаилинского Центра высокомагнитудного роя (ХВЦ). Основы такого понимания сейсмичности окраины территории тектоники определены авторской Концепцией глыбово-клавишной структуры литосферы на активной окраине континента . Эпицентральная область Хаилинского и Олюторского землетрясений локализуется на площади локальной Тылговаямской впадины, причленённой к Вывенской впадине с юга на её висячем ЮВ крыле зоны Вывенского разлома The Khailinsk Center is a unique phenomenon in the Koryak seismic belt, which frames the Beringia lithospheric plate in the north. It was created by a swarm of Khailinsk and Olyutorsk earthquakes and aftershocks with M 5.07.6. The center lies in a submerged block of the lithosphere of the Olyutor Bay, created by interblock northwestern faults on the sides of the trough with a depth of 82 km in the relief of the lithosphere. Sea terranes with a maximum deflection of the lithosphere horizons in their keels, through which a column with earthquake hypocenters passes, are thrust onto the trough. The high-magnitude swarm of earthquakes of the Khailinsk Center has mutually orthogonal ellipses of aftershocks at common epicenters of the main shocks. The Khaili earthquake did not show the tradition of connecting the aftershock relaxation ellipse with the known aftershock geology in plan and section. Such powerful events that are not tied to an obvious geological structure seem an obvious novelty in world mining practice. An analysis of the Khailinsk and Olyutor events revealed a collision of two facts: the coincidence of the epicenters and the complete orthogonality of the clouds of both earthquakes. Their study as elements of one system tectonics-seismicity determined the geological space of the hypocenters position. The interest in the seismicity of the Khailinsk high-magnitude center is considered as an appeal in the geology of the outskirts to the unique small lithospheric plate Beringia in the seismology of NE Asia. The research basis of the tectonics-seismicity system is the concept of seismogenic tectonics in the territory of the active margin of the North Asian continent and the place of the Khailinsk Center for High Magnitude Swarm (KHC). The basics of such understanding of the seismicity in the outskirts of the territory tectonics are determined by the authors Concept of the block-key structure of the lithosphere on the active outskirts of the continent. The epicentral region of the Khailinsk and Olyutorsk earthquakes is localized on the area of the local Tylgovyamsk Depression, connected to the Vyvensk Depression from the south on its hanging SE wing of the Vyvensk Fault zone

Compulsive Bodies, Creative Bodies: Beckett'sQuadand Agency in the 21stCentury

Lying in ditches, tromping through mud, wedged in urns, trash bins, buried in earth, bodies in Beckett appear anything but capable of acting meaningfully on their environments. Bodies in Beckett seem, rather, synonymous with abjection, brokenness, and passivity—as if the human were overcome by its materiality: odours, pain, foot sores, decreased mobility. To the extent that Beckett's personae act, they act vaguely (wandering) or engage in quasi-obsessive, repetitive tasks: maniacal rocking, rotating sucking stones and biscuits, uttering words evacuated of sense, ceaseless pacing. Perhaps the most vivid dramatization of bodies compelled to meaningless, repetitive movement is Quad (1981), Beckett's ‘ballet’ for television, in which four bodies in hooded robes repeat their series ad infinitum. By 1981, has all possibility for intentional action in Beckett been foreclosed? Are we doomed, as Hamm puts it, to an eternal repetition of the same? (‘Moments for nothing, now as always, time was never and time is over, reckoning closed and story ended.’)This article proposes an alternative reading of bodily abjection, passivity and compulsivity in Beckett, a reading that implies a version of agency more capacious than voluntarism. Focusing on Quad as an illustrative case, I show how, if we shift our focus from the body's diminished possibilities for movement to the imbrication of Beckett's personae in environments (a mound of earth), things, and objects, a different story emerges: rather than dramatizing the impossibility of action, Beckett's work may sketch plans for a more ecological, post-human version of agency, a more collaborative mode of ‘acting’ that eases the divide between the human, the world of inanimate objects, and the earth.Movements such as new materialism and object-oriented ontology challenge hierarchies among subjects, objects and environments, questioning the rigid distinction between animate and inanimate, and the notion of the Anthropocene emphasizes the influence of human activity on social and geological space. A major theoretical challenge that arises from such discourses (including 20th-century challenges to the idea of an autonomous, willing, subject) is to arrive at an account of agency robust enough to survive if not the ‘death of the subject’ then its imbrication in the material and social environment it acts upon. Beckett's treatment of the human body suggests a version of agency that draws strength from a body's interaction with its environment, such that meaning is formed in the nexus between body and world. Using the example of Quad, I show how representations of the body in Beckett disturb the opposition between compulsivity (when a body is driven to move or speak in the absence of intention) and creative invention. In Quad, serial repetition works to create an interface between body and world that is receptive to meanings outside the control of a human will. Paradoxically, compulsive repetition in Beckett, despite its uncomfortable closeness to addiction, harnesses a loss of individual control that proposes a more versatile and ecologically mindful understanding of human action.

Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence

How can we incorporate humanist critiques of the Anthropocene while harnessing the notion’s potential for challenging political imagination? Placing the Anthropocene offers one way forward; the notion of an African Anthropocene offers a productive paradox that holds planetary temporality and specific human lives in a single frame. Navigating the Anthropocene from Africa requires attending to scale both as an analytic and an actor category. In order to do so, this essay proposes the notion of interscalar vehicles: objects and modes of analysis that permit scholars and their subjects to move simultaneously through deep time and human time, through geological space and political space. This essay discusses the creation and destruction of value/waste and pasts/futures around a uranium mine in Mounana, Gabon, to unpack the political, ethical, epistemological, and affective dimensions of interscalar vehicles and their violent Anthropocenic implications.