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Improvement of Gypsiferous Soil Strength by Silicone Oil
Gypsiferous soils are usually stiff when dry, mainly because of the cementation of soil particles by gypsum. However, significant loss in strength...
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Quaternary of Egypt
More than 100 years of continuing research into the Quaternary of Egypt has produced numerous publications. In the last twenty years, Quaternary...
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Accumulation and phytostabilization of As, Pb and Cd in plants growing inside mine tailings reforested in Zacatecas, Mexico
The aim of this research was to identify plant species with potential to accumulate and stabilize arsenic (As), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) in mine...
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Classification methods for detecting and evaluating changes in desertification-related features in arid and semiarid environments
Land cover, land use, soil salinization, and sand encroachment, which are desertification-indicating features, were integrated in a diachronic...
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Heavy metals’ mobility from phosphate washing effluents discharged in the Gafsa area (southwestern Tunisia)
Wet processing of natural phosphate to increase the P 2 O 5 content and eliminate non-desired fraction (both coarse and fine fractions) took place in...
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The influence of elevation on soil properties and forest litter in the Siliceous Moncayo Massif, SW Europe
Understanding the effects of elevation and related factors (climate, vegetation) on the physical and chemical soil properties can help to predict...
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Soil–Water Characteristic Curve of Gypseous Soil
The soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC), also known as soil–water retention curve, is a key tool in assessing the behavior and properties of...
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Wood chips as soil conservation in field conditions
The soil conditioner in processes of soil conservation is important especially in heavily eroded areas. Because in this study done in Educational and...
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Wetting and drying collapse behaviour of collapsible gypseous soils treated by grouting
Gypseous soil is a collapsible soil which causes large deformations in buildings which are constructed on it; therefore, several methods were used to...
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Assessment of toxic metals dispersed from improperly disposed tailing, Jebel Ressas mine, NE Tunisia
Mining activity is one of the most important sources of heavy metals in the environment. In NE Tunisia, the former Jebel Ressas mine represents a...
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Hydrochemical and isotopic investigation of groundwater of Al-Batin alluvial fan aquifer, Southern Iraq
Major ions and important trace elements in addition to δ 18 O and δ 2 H were analysed for 43 groundwater samples sampled from the Al-Batin alluvial fan...
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Influence of vegetation cover and other sources of variability on sediment and runoff response in a burned forest in South Korea
Post-fire field measurements of sediment and run off yield were undertaken in natural rainfall event-basis during five rainy months in Korea on a...
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The preferential flow of soil: A widespread phenomenon in pedological perspectives
The article provides an overview of studies about the preferential flow phenomenon. This phenomenon is one of the types of the transportation of...
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Principal component, chemical, bacteriological, and isotopic analyses of Oued-Souf groundwaters (revised)
Oued-Souf City, located in the northwestern part of Algeria, has rapidly grown and been urbanized. The city and surrounding areas depend heavily on...
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Stabilization of high plasticity clay with lime and gypsum (Ankara, Turkey)
Clayey soils might lead to swelling, settlement and strength issues when considered as foundation or fill material. The use of additives to stabilize...
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Chemical and strontium isotopic characteristics of the rivers around the Badain Jaran Desert, northwest China: implication of river solute origin and chemical weathering
The chemical and strontium isotopic compositions of four major rivers (Heihe, Shule, Beida, and Shiyang) around the Badain Jaran Desert, northwestern...
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Temperature and radon-222 as tracer of groundwater flow: application to El Hamma geothermal aquifer system, southeastern Tunisia
Hydrogeological and hydrochemical investigations were applied to explain geothermal groundwater flow factors controlling groundwater mineralization,...
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Erosion Rates Depending on Slope and Exposition of Cropped Chestnut Soils
The surface runoff erosion of dark and light chestnut soils (Kastanozems) in the Ile Alatau foothills in the Zhambyl/Karasai administrative area and...
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Sabkhas, Saline Mudflats and Pans
This chapter looks at Quaternary depositional styles depositing saline sediments in ephemeral saline waters, focusing on modern evaporitic mudflats...
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Interpreting Evaporite Textures
I define an evaporite as a salt rock that was originally precipitated from a saturated surface or nearsurface brine in hydrologies driven by solar...