How to do a proper soil-rock mixture sampling?

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J. C. Tarafdar

@ Syafiqah, you can do it through digital image processing (DIP) in which the rock blocks in S–RM samples are separated from the soil matrix, and the proportion and distribution of the rock blocks is obtained quantitatively. Please go through the attached paper.

Syafiqah Salimun

Thanks for your sharing. J. C. Tarafdar I am looking method for laboratory scale. Maybe this one can be applied too.

Dilip Kumar Pal

Please try to get saprolite sample beneath the soil profile developed in residuum over granite gneiss/granite rock.

Kiprotich Kiptum

Check on this paper.

Article Physicochemical Properties and the Concentration of Some Ele...