We analyzed the characteristics of red soils that are often considered collapsible soils. In this study, we examined depositional environment and lithologic characteristics, stratigraphy, conducted mechanical sieve, X-ray fluorescence, X-Ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, fluorescence analyses optically stimulated luminescence dating. The samples were collected from gravel pits to e...

The Southern Highland Group (Dalradian) and Keltie Water Grit Formation, which includes the Lower Cambrian Leny Limestone, form an inverted, 1.4 km thick, largely arenaceous, sequence at Callander. The grits have the same detrital mineralogy throughout, mainly quartz, plagioclase (An1–3), muscovite, and biotite. Chlorite formed from detrital biotite during low-grade regional metamorphism (T<270...

In today's society, knowledge is recognized as a valuable social asset and the educational system is in search of a new strategy that allows them to construct their knowledge and experience. The purpose of this study was to explore the process of knowledge creation in nursing education. In the present study, the grounded theory approach was used. This method provides a comprehensive approach to...

Farmers, scientists, and other soil health stakeholders require interpretable indicators of hydraulic function. Determining which to use has been difficult because measurement disconformity, spatial temporal variability, recently established treatments, the effect site characteristics on management practice differences. The North American Project Evaluate Soil Health Measurements includes 124 s...

Regional-scale fault systems are important in adjusting intracontinental deformation. Closure of the Paleo-Tethys, Paleo-Pacific subduction, and India-continent-continent collision have all interacted to shape Meso-Cenozoic tectonics South China. The Ziyun-Luodian (ZLF) straddles across Guizhou region southwestern New petrographic structural studies were conducted reveal evolution ZLF regional ...

Two separate and distinct diamictite-rich units occur in the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic PolarisbreenGroup, which comprises the top kilometer of47 km of Neoproterozoic strata in the northeast of the Svalbard archipelago.The platformal succession accumulated on the windward, tropical to subtropical margin of Laurentia.The older PetrovbreenMember is a thin glacimarine diamictite that lacks a ca...

T he origin of our own genus remains frustratingly unclear. Although many of my colleagues are agreed regarding the “what” with respect to Homo, there is no consensus as to the “how” and “when” questions. Until relatively recently, most paleoanthropologists (including the writer) assumed Africa was the answer to the “where” question, but in a little more than a decade discoveries at two sites b...

The 160 m thick Castlecliff coast section was deposited during the middle Pleistocene (c. 1.07-0.35 Ma) and comprises 10 disconformity-bound cyclothems or sequences. A typical sequence has three parts: (1) a basal suite of shoreface and inner shelf sediments with intertidal and shallow subtidal molluscan faunas, and cross-bedded, pebbly shell gravels (type A shellbeds); (2) a mid-cycle shellbed...

Abstract. The Batagay megaslump, a permafrost thaw feature in north-eastern Siberia, provides access to ancient up ?650 kyr old. We aimed assess the permafrost-locked organic matter (OM) quality and deduce palaeo-environmental information on glacial–interglacial timescales. sampled five stratigraphic units exposed 55 m high slump headwall analysed lipid biomarkers (alkanes, fatty acids alcohols...