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This paper develops approximate calculation methods for unsteady multidimensional heat conduction in finite bodies heated by radiation, including cases with nonlinear radiative boundary conditions and temperature dependent thermal properties. For thermal conductivity and heat capacity proportional t…
This paper examines nonstationary heat transfer in plane, cylindrical, and spherical shells under high-temperature heating when boundary heat fluxes depend nonlinearly on the corresponding surface temperatures. It formulates the problem as a dimensionless boundary-value problem and uses Laplace tran…
This paper develops empirical formulas for calculating the dimensionless surface temperature of a heat-generating element placed eccentrically in a horizontal cylindrical cavity under free-convective heat transfer. Using previously obtained experimental data processed on a Minsk-1 computer, the auth…
This paper presents a method for calculating the temperature field in windings of additional resistors used in electrical measuring instruments, based on analytical relations for a short cylindrical winding with internal heat generation. Because direct use of these relations requires heat-transfer c…
This paper reports experimental determination of thermal conductivity coefficients for electrical coil windings made from PEMS manganin enameled wire, data needed for calculating coil temperature regimes. The authors derive a measurement formula from the temperature field of a short cylindrical wind…
This paper examines the perimeter temperature distribution of a cylindrical shell during free-convective heat transfer through horizontal gas and liquid layers, with attention to both coaxial and eccentric positions of an internal heat-generating cylinder. Experimental data for copper-foil and glass…
This paper examines how the cooling surface, expressed as the number of tubes, should be distributed between water passes in two-pass surface condensers. It argues that equal distribution based only on layout can overlook differences in heat-transfer conditions between passes, especially in condense…
This paper critically examines experimental methods used to determine moisture losses in steam turbine stages. It argues that comparing the same stage operating on superheated and wet steam attributes the entire decrease in torque or internal efficiency to droplet moisture, while neglecting changes …
This paper argues for reconsidering adiabatic phase formation as an alternative basis for steam turbine power plants. It reviews operational and economic difficulties encountered in large superhigh and supercritical pressure units, including limits on steam temperature, reliability problems, poor pe…
This paper proposes a simplified method for determining the prime cost of output from a combined heat and power plant using an annual heat balance expressed in comparable energy units. It derives a relation for fuel expenditure per unit of plant output and shows that its dependence on the energy coe…
This anniversary note profiles the career of Aleksei Mikhailovich Kuzmin, senior professor of the Geological Prospecting Faculty at Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 1971. It summarizes his education, early academic appointments, teaching, and geological inves…
This paper derives inflow formulas for a cased, cemented, and perforated well treated as hydrodynamically imperfect. It separates the drainage region into an outer radial-plane flow zone, described by the Dupuit relation, and an inner zone of influence around perforation openings, for which a spheri…
This paper assesses the mineral and construction material potential of Quaternary loose deposits that fill deflation basins and form accumulative plains in Khakassia and Tuva. It argues, from geomorphological interpretation and examples from drilling and lake basin sediments, that these basins acted…
This study examines the mineralogical and petrographic characteristics of porphyritic biotite granites in the Kamensk granitoid massif of the northwestern Rudny Altai. Based on macroscopic and microscopic observations, it describes the distribution, generations, textures, optical properties, and alt…
This paper reviews competing interpretations of the boundaries of the Siberian Platform, focusing on how Baikalian folded areas around its margins should be classified. It argues that tectonic regionalization should not rely solely on the Precambrian age of basement rocks, but should also consider s…
This paper describes metasomatic formations developed in Upper Proterozoic dolomites of the Alguy tectonic zone in the Kuznetsk Alatau, adjacent to an intrusion of quartz diorites. Based on field relations, petrographic observations, and chemical data, it characterizes a zonal sequence of alteration…
This paper evaluates hydrogeochemical sampling of wells as a means of increasing the prospecting value of drilling for ore deposits and geological mapping. The authors compare sampling conditions in different geological and hydrogeological settings, discuss the need for pumping, casing, interval sam…
This paper examines the spatial distribution of mercury in groundwater within the Kolyvan-Tomsk folded zone and its relation to hydrogeological, structural, and metallogenic conditions. Using regional hydrogeochemical observations, spring and groundwater mercury contents, and comparisons with known …
This paper evaluates the use of hydrogeochemical prospecting for studying the semi-covered Kolyvan-Tomsk fold zone in Western Siberia, a region considered promising but insufficiently characterized in metallogenic terms. Based on integrated geological, hydrogeological, geochemical, chemical, and mic…
This paper examines the rational limits of using linear bar charts and network schedules in geological exploration planning and management. Drawing on studies conducted under conditions of the West Siberian Geological Administration, it argues that network schedules are useful chiefly for work at a …
This paper examines the Quaternary loess and terrace deposits exposed on the right bank of the Tom River near Staro-Abashevo in southeastern Kuzbass, a section located south of previously described Anthropogene exposures in the region. Using layer-by-layer facies, granulometric, chemical, mineralogi…
This article critiques Atlantological explanations of ocean origin, especially claims that a large Atlantic continent, Atlantis, sank in historical times. Through textual analysis of ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Mesoamerican sources, together with geographical and geological arguments, it evaluates …
This paper advances a hypothesis that global ocean level was substantially lower at the beginning of the Tertiary period, especially in the late Cretaceous to early Paleogene interval. It argues from submarine canyons, guyots, shallow-water and weathered deposits now found at great depths, Mediterra…
This paper argues that conventional simultaneous waterflooding and oil production can leave substantial oil unrecovered because injected water preferentially moves through larger pore channels and rapidly waters producing wells. Drawing on field examples from Arlan and Izbaskent, it contrasts low re…
This paper examines micropenetration as a rapid method for assessing the engineering geological properties of semi-rocky Mesozoic rocks from the Berezovsky brown-coal deposit in the Kansk-Achinsk basin. Using a micropenetrometer developed at Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, the authors performed more th…
This paper examines whether differences in color and marbleization in limestones of the Yashkinskaya Member reflect stratigraphic differences or secondary alteration. Drawing on quarry observations, fossil preservation, bituminous features, fault relationships, and evidence of sulfide and polymetall…
This paper presents preliminary engineering and geological investigations for the planned Second Urop open pit in the Kuznetsk coal basin, where pit depths exceeding 200 m make slope stability and groundwater conditions significant design concerns. It characterizes the site geology, hydrogeology, an…
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of geophysical prospecting in the Baley ore field, focusing on the Baley and Taseevo gold mineralization types. It argues that direct detection of thin, structurally variable quartz veins by surface geophysical methods is generally impracticable because of thic…
This study examines the hydrogeochemical characteristics of surface water and groundwater in the Nazarovo brown coal deposit of the Kansk-Achinsk basin, where Jurassic coal-bearing strata are mined by open pit methods. Based on a 1968 survey of Quaternary, coal, subcoal, silt, sapropelic, and surfac…
This paper examines the trace element geochemistry of the Batanayul alkaline rock massif in the Kuznetsk Alatau, a small multiphase intrusive body composed of theralite porphyries, bereshites, nepheline monzonites, nepheline syenites, and later syenitic and mafic dike rocks. Using comparative geoche…
This paper examines the mechanization of installing prefabricated reinforced-concrete supports in horizontal mine workings in Kuzbass, where support erection remained a major source of labor in drivage. Drawing on design analysis, production experience, industrial tests, and analytical studies, the …
This article examines the 1964 transition of the Em. Yaroslavsky Mine in Kuzbass from a six-day to a five-day workweek while preserving total weekly working hours. Using production, labor, cost, repair, safety, and social indicators from 1963 to the first half of 1966, it argues that the new schedul…
This paper reinterprets the structural development of the Berikul gold ore field in the Kuznetsk Alatau using detailed observations from exploration, mining, and mine archives. It distinguishes pre-ore, ore, and post-ore tectonic periods, linking successive fracture systems, magmatic intrusions, dik…
This paper examines the use of pilot boreholes for sinking vertical mine shafts as a promising alternative to conventional shaft sinking, particularly where higher advance rates and lower equipment costs are needed. It reviews Soviet and foreign drilling equipment that might be adapted for large-dia…
This paper outlines criteria for identifying central-type paleovolcanoes in Devonian volcanic formations of the Mount Stog area on the northeastern margin of the Minusinsk Depression. Drawing on three years of field study, the authors define paleovolcanoes as ancient edifices containing vent and nea…
This paper characterizes hydrothermally altered volcanogenic rocks in the eastern North Minusinsk Depression, an area shaped by Devonian volcanism, intrusive activity, and northwest and sublatitudinal fault systems. On the basis of field relations, petrographic observations, and mineral assemblages,…
This paper reviews results from geological, mining, geophysical, and borehole studies of tectonic structure in the Kuznetsk coal basin and discusses their significance for coal exploration and extraction. It emphasizes the basin’s zonal tectonic differentiation, the relationship between folding, fau…
This paper examines why exploratory drilling in Kuzbass coal deposits within the Biryulinsk and Main monoclines often failed to reveal or correctly interpret local folds and faults later encountered during mining. Comparing exploration layouts with mining evidence, the author argues that the main pr…
This paper characterizes iron and titanium mineralization in Devonian gabbroic massifs of the Patyn magmatic complex in Mountain Shoria, with emphasis on the Mount Patyn and Bolshaya Kul-Taiga areas. On the basis of field occurrence, petrography, mineral associations, and textural relationships, it …
This paper evaluates the proposed Balei-Darasun fault as a long-lived ore-controlling structure in Transbaikalia, focusing on the insufficiently traced segment within the Borshchovochny Ridge. The authors review earlier structural interpretations and argue that the deep-seated character of the fault…
The paper proposes using statistical characteristics of seismic wave patterns, especially microseisms, as a lower cost alternative or supplement to traditional kinematic and dynamic seismic interpretation. Motivated by the need to trace deep faults in Central and Eastern Transbaikalia, it outlines a…
This paper examines how magnetic survey data can be used not only for geological mapping around primary vein-type gold deposits, but also for predicting mineralized zones and identifying ore clusters. Drawing on comparisons between magnetic field patterns and known geological structures at several d…
This paper examines the petrographic and material composition of Jurassic brown coals from the Berezovskoye deposit in the Kansk-Achinsk basin, using macroscopic core descriptions and microscopic study of polished sections in transmitted light. The coals are shown to be dominated by dull, mainly str…
This paper examines the lithology, internal structure, and depositional setting of epiphyton limestones in the Anastasyino Series, especially the Anastasyino and Ungut formations along the middle Mana River in the northwestern Eastern Sayan. Based on field observations and detailed thin-section samp…
This paper describes the geological structure of a Lower to Middle Devonian paleovolcanic edifice in the southeastern Solgon Ridge of the Eastern Sayan, located near the intersection of a regional fault and a major transverse disturbance. Based on detailed geological mapping, it characterizes the mo…
This paper examines the tectonic subdivision of the northeastern Kuznetsk Alatau, addressing inconsistent use of terms such as structural complex, stage, substage, and tier. Using historical geological criteria, especially the genetic interpretation of unconformities, it distinguishes two main struc…
This paper examines the paleotectonic orientation of structures in the Altai region and its relation to geophysical and paleomagnetic evidence. Using gravimetric, magnetic, structural-facies, and published paleomagnetic data, the authors argue that near-latitudinal structural trends dominated in the…
This paper examines the occurrence of gold mineralization in skarn and related ore bodies at the Ampalyk deposit, located along the contact of the Olginsko-Ampalyk intrusive complex with an effusive-sedimentary sequence. Using mineralogical observations in polished sections together with chemical an…
This article surveys the role of scholars from Tomsk higher educational institutions in the investigation of Siberia’s gold potential from the late nineteenth century through the Soviet period. It traces how early descriptive and statistical work on placer and primary deposits developed into systema…
The paper addresses how to evaluate speech signal features for recognition, criticizing reliance on classification error because it may not reflect the information used by human listeners. It proposes a criterion that compares changes in objective separability of speech classes under selected signal…
