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Dear all, I´m looking for literature (especially that difficult-to-find: very old, very local, languages different to English, etc.) related to differences on the composition and amount of sap...
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There are three primary areas of ground movement towards a pressurised TBM: at the face, along the shield skin and at the tail void -(In the attached figure). Can the maximum surface Settelment of...
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What are the indicators of biochars for possessing higher aromaticity produced by slow pyrolysis process? Generally at higher temperatures the pyrolyzed biochars show higher aromaticity. What are...
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Hi all, I am looking for studies that compared soil texture results obtained from field tests (ribbon test, jar test, throw-the-ball test, sausage test, etc.) with results obtained from...
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I, being a Bangladeshi student, has hometown and ancestral home on Haor region of Mymensingh division. Wherever I have seen digging for foundation of buildings, tubewells,ponds or so, especially...
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I compacted unbound aggregates at optimum moisture content and then let it dry in the oven for one day. The repeated load triaxial test was carried out on this sample in which I faced a weird...
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What is the sinkhole/subsidence/ ground collapse mechanism under a leaking sewer pipeline in a non-krast urban area (areas with no carbonate rocks or lime stone)? Because sinkhole also use to...
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We are going to use biochar on microbial culture media. At this situation, we are searching for the optimum dose (ammount of biochar in 1 lit of microbial culture media). Please inform if anyone...
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I searched online but I could not find any answer to it. Does anyone ever measures it or knows a work on this topic with that info? Thanks :)
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I want to estimate the mass of organic and inorganic carbon in mostly carbonatic sand samples (90% Calcite /Dolomite). There is little evidences of clays in my samples, which add error to the...
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How we can separate the modern and ancient impacts on soils from each others?
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I am analyzing soil samples from a volcanic area (relatively young), formed by Andosols (non-allophanic), I have run all the routine analyzes (oxalate, DCB, pyrophosphate extractions, CEC....)...
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The mineralisation rates or soil organic matter are influenced by temperature and moisture. I am trying to classify climates, using associations between cumulated annual rainfall and annual...
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I am looking for a paper quoted like follwed in another paper: SOil and surface WAter Protection using conservation tillage in northern and central Europe (SOWAP), 2007. LIFE03 ENV/UK/000617,...
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Is it possible for geotextile reinforced embankments to have an increase in the Factor of safety together, with the increase in deformation below the toe of the embankment? The R squared values...
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I found that biochar has a little impact for enhancement of micro-nutrients on agricultural soil. So, is there any information about the release of micro-nutrients from biochar to soil? Any...
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Hi all, I have been told that you can take soil (it is currently frozen) and suspend it in water to then be able to take a swab (as bacteria can be hard to extract from soil), but I have not been...
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I am looking for values comparing the yields (potential and or average), net primary production, amount of residues for the main crops over the world, ... anything related to the amount of...
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Dear colleagues, I have been searching about correlations between N-SPT and drained friction angle for sands. However, some authors don't write the respective energy efficiency used for those...
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Software to calculate rainfall erosivity (like the application of Web ERosivity Module (WERM))
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