Stable Pb isotopes, Pb elemental concentrations, and, for some samples, Nd and Sr isotopes and concentrations have been analyzed on soils and on stream and estuarine sediments to evaluate the provenance of major inputs of Pb to the O'ahu, Hawai'i, environment. Core samples from the Ala Wai Canal, a major estuary draining urban Honolulu, preserve a historical record of anthropogenic lead input t...

Unpailt roads are generally subject to erosion, when they need be bitumen, civil engineers know the geotechnical capabilities of soil layers used as support, among these capabilities, for example, characteristics withstand erosion. CBR has often been classify soils according their compaction. In this article, we propose a correlation between and eroded mass through simulator. Indeed, in article...

Water erosion and runoff can be severe due to poor infiltration through frozen soil in the dryland wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production region of the inland Pacific Northwest (PNW), USA. For more than 70 years, farmers and researchers have used various methods of subsoiling to reduce runoff and erosion and to improve infiltration and soil moisture storage. The practice and equipment have evo...

The GLEAMS model version 2.10 was calibrated and validated with data from research plots on illitic clay soil near the Agricultural Research Centre at Jokioinen, Finland. Observed surface runoff, drainage ̄ow, erosion, and associated nitrogen and phosphorus loads from 0.46 ha plots were used in the model application for a 7-year period with different management practices. Two plots were used fo...

Particles with nanometer dimensions (nanoparticles) are all around us. The finest particles of sand are blown by the wind over thousands of kilometers. The finest particles of soils are either eroded by the wind in extremely dry conditions or by water under wet conditions and deposited hundreds of kilometers or more from the origin. The air contains nanoparticles of carbon, ice, and oxides and ...

Raman spectroscopy can be used to assess the structure of naturally occurring carbonaceous materials (CM), which exist in a wide range of crystal structures. The sources of these geological and environmental materials include rocks, soils, river sediments, and marine sediment cores, all of which can contain carbonaceous material ranging from highly crystalline graphite to amorphous-like organic...