Preface ....................................................... vii
Research and Review Studies ..................................... 1
Chapter 1 Wave-Associated Seabed Behaviour Near Submarine
Buried Pipelines ..................................... 3
Behnam Shabani, Dong-Sheng Jeng and John Small
Chapter 2 Stress and Scale-Dependency of Hydromechanical
Properties of Fractured Rocks ...................... 109
Lanru Jing, Ki-Bok Min and Alireza Baghbanan
Chapter 3 Fault-Related Carbonate Rocks and Earthquake
Indicators: Recent Advances and Future Trends ...... 167
Andrea Billi and Giulio Di Тоrо
Chapter 4 How Dо CO2 Promoting the Fractures of Rocks? An
Experimental and Numerical Perspective ............. 191
Qi Li
Chapter 5 Mysteries of Rock Massifs Destruction .............. 211
Alexander Strom and Mikhail Groshev
Chapter 6 Hydraulic Characterization of Fractured Rocks ...... 233
Corrado Fidelibus, Giuseppe Cammarata and
Masantonio Cravero
Chapter 7 Magnetic, Geochemical and Mineralogical
Properties of Rocks Around Oil and Gas
Reservoirs: Implications for Mechanism of
"Chimney Effect" ................................... 263
Qingsheng Liu and Tao Yang
Chapter 8 Correlation between Microstructure and
Permeability in Sandstone Rocks .................... 263
S. Baraka-Lokmane, I.G. Main, B.T. Ngwenya and
S.C. Elphick
Short Communication ........................................... 299
Environmental Impact on Geotechnical Parameters
of Limestones Used as Geomaterials on New Cairo
Construction, Egypt ................................ 301
Hani A.M. Ibrahim and Gamal M.E. Kamh
Index ......................................................... 313
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