Dating sediment burial over million-year time scales is crucial in many areas of the Earth sciences and archeology, but is often difficult using traditional techniques. Sediment burial can be dated by the radioactive decay of cosmogenic nuclides, provided that the sediment was exposed to cosmic rays prior to burial. Dating calculations are straightforward if sediment is buried deeply and rapidl...

Seabed-structure interactions are responsible for the burial of heavy objects, such as mines, pipelines, concrete breakwaters, platforms, debris, and other objects on the seafloor. In low shear strength muds, these objects are known to bury at impact or to sink into the sediment if the buoyant weight of the object exceeds the bearing capacity of the seafloor. In higher energy sandy sediments, b...

The remains of Thomas Corbyn (1711-91), wholesale and manufacturing chemist and druggist, lie in a copper coffin at Bunhill Fields, London. No inscription marks his burial place, nor has any portrait ofhim been found. Vanities ofsuch a kind would not have been to his taste, since he was not only a Quaker, but one ofthe plainest Friends of his day, not only in dress--he wore clothes of a uniform...

Effects of soil condition and burial on boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman, mortality in fallen cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., fruit were assessed in this study. During hot weather immediately after summer harvest operations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, burial of infested fruit in conventionally tilled field plots permitted significantly greater survival of weevils than...

This paper describes the treatment and conservation of an Egyptian wooden coffin box dating back to ca. 1st century. The treatment procedures entailed cleaning, removal of dust and sand, securing severely damaged wooden fragments and damaged resin as well as the use of a suitable gap filler. Studies included wood and microbiological identification. TECHNICAL PAPER 1. Conservation Dept. Faculty ...

The western Ordos Plateau is a key area of shrub diversity and a National Nature Reserve of endangered shrub species in north-west China. Desert expansion is becoming the most important threat to these endangered species. However, little is known about the effects of sand burial on the dynamics of the shrub community. This study aims to investigate how the shrubs as a community and as different...