Zero till is commonly advocated as a preferred cropping system to conventional, multicultivation practices. Zero till is particularly attractive on clay soils, to minimise compaction and induce natural structure formation through shrink±swell cycles. Increases in soil water storage and increased numbers of (bene®cial) soil fauna with zero till have been reported, relative to traditional tillage...

[1] Dozens of large, low‐gradient alluvial fans are present within impact crater basins on the cratered highlands of Mars. The timescales and climate conditions that were required to generate such fans are unknown, but testable through our understanding of terrestrial hill slope erosion in the presence of precipitation. Previous estimates of fan formation time vary from years to millions of yea...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Colorado River basalt cosmogenic 3 He surface exposure ages climate change desert pavement desert alluvial fans southwest USA geomorphology Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the Lower Colorado River (LCR) and tributary alluvial fans emanating from the Black Mountains near Golden Shores, Arizona record six cycles of Late Cenozoic aggradation and incision of the LCR and...

Carbonates of the Ojo Huelos Member of the San Pedro Arroyo Formation include ostracodal limestones, brecciated micritic limestones, vuggy, mottled limestones, peloidal graistones/packstones, pisolitic rudstones and nodular limestones. These lithofacies record deposition in lacustrine, palustrine and alluvial environments. Lacustrine (ostracodal) limestones are isotopically heaviest, with nodul...

Biodiversity studies in search of endoparasitic acephaline gregarines revealed a new species of the genus Monocystis Stein, 1848 in the seminal vesicles of the earthworm Metaphire houlleti (Perrier) residing in alluvial soil of the district of North 24 Parganas. The new species is characterized by having bean-shaped gamonts measuring 94.0-151.0 (119.0+/-16.0) microm x 53.0-81.0(66.0+/-8.0) micr...

Enhancing wetland characteristics in agricultural drainage ditches with the use of low-grade weirs, has been identified as a best management practice (BMP) to mitigate nutrient runoff from agriculture landscapes. A major objective of utilizing low-grade weirs as a BMP includes fostering environments suitable for the biogeochemical removal of nitrogen via denitrification. This study examined the...

Kerman and its surrounding towns consist of a flat alluvial plain of fine silt and clay materials. In morphological aspects, these sediments have a very gentle slope with the main infrastructure of the city build on them. Generally, the structure of undisturbed soils is developed over time due to the influence of environmental factors. Geological factors in Kerman fine-grained alluviums have ca...

Alluvial fans of alpine torrents are both natural deposition areas for sediment discharged by floods and debris flows, and preferred sites for agriculture and settlements. Hazard assessment on alluvial fans depends on proper identification of flow processes and their potential intensity. This study used LiDAR data to examine the morphology of the alluvial fan of a small alpine stream (Moscardo ...

â â â  parsian alluvial fan system is a part of asyab-kharabeh fluvial system that response it to quaternary climate changes is the main goal of this study. for this aim, climatic proxies and traces in alluvial fan structure were investigated base d o n four categories: aggradation and degradation phases, debris flows, size changes in deposited materials and formation of alluvial fan tufas. pri...