In this study, bentonite (Ben), compost (Com), and biochar (Bio) were used as soil amendments to enhance sandy soil physical properties. A soil column experiment was conducted in a laboratory. Application rates were 3% (weight/weight) of Bio (T1), Ben (T2), and Com (T3). Furthermore, mixtures 1.5% and 1.5% of Bio and Ben (T4), Ben and Com (T5), and Bio and Com (T6), and a mixture 1%, 1%, and 1% of Bio, Ben, and Com (T7) in addition to control treatment were adopted. The mixtures of amendments and sandy soil were concentrated at the top 10 cm of columns. Results revealed that the cumulative evaporation was reduced by 2.3% and 5.7% as a result of using T3 and T5, respectively. However, the remaining treatments enhanced the cumulative evaporation. The application of amendments increased the capacity of the soil to maintain water by 35.4%, 24.4%, 13.3%, and 10.2%, for soils treated with T5, T3, T7, and T4, respectively. The water content at field capacity had the highest increase in the top 10 cm when treatment T3 was used. Although T3 (compost) was the most efficient for enhancing soil physical properties, this study recommends T5 and T7 to improve hydraulic properties of sandy soils. This is due to the fact that biochar and bentonite remain in the soil for a longer period and resist biodegradation while compost overcomes the negative impact of soil chemical properties as a result of biochar and bentonite additions. 相似文献
In the arid and semi-arid environments where the rainfall is limited and variable, fallow period soil moisture conservation using stubble is one of the ways of increasing the soil moisture required for crop sowing and development. However, the effectiveness of moisture conservation using stubble depends on the paddock management, soil water content, and rainfall characteristics. To assess the effect of stubble rate and amount of rainfall on the soil moisture conservation, a two-season field experiment was conducted using four stubble rates (0, 2, 4, 6 t/ha) and two water supply amounts. The soil water dynamics was also analysed using a validated Agricultural Production System Simulator (APSIM). In the relatively wet summer season with a high initial soil water content, the amount of water stored in the 2, 4, and 6 t/ha stubble rate treatment plots was higher than that of the bare plots by 10.4, 15.9, and 17.8 mm, respectively. However, in the summer season with a relatively high amount of in-season water input and low initial soil water content, the soil water storage was increased by 29.4, 35.6, and 43.0 mm, respectively. Comparing the results of the two seasons, the highest increase was observed for the 2 t/ha stubble rate. The amount of conserved soil moisture was found to be the highest when the soil profile water content at the start of the summer-fallow period is low and the amount of rain during the summer season is high. The good agreement between the measured and APSIM-simulated soil water contents (R2 = 0.812), indicates that the model can be used to assess the soil water dynamics under a fallow condition. The APSIM-simulated soil water balance using the weather data of the past 100 years indicated that in a year with low start-of-fallow period soil water content, a 6 t/ha stubble rate can increase the end-of-fallow period soil moisture by up to 60 %. 相似文献
A general approach to rock engineering designing aspects adopted at the Khiritharn Pumped Storage Scheme is described. The scheme involves excavation of three large caverns and tunnels in jointed sandstone within a suture zone in Southeast Thailand. Geological condition and engineering properties of the sandstone were investigated. Strength and modulus properties of the intact rock were determined from laboratory tests and properties of rock mass were empirically estimated for the design analysis in the de.nite study stage on the basis of three rock mass classi.cation systems namely the Rock Mass Rating (RMR), Geological Strength Index (GSI) and a Japanese system (EPDC). While the GSI gives strength and modulus of deformation values slightly higher than the RMR classi.cation, the EPDC gives a lower value of modulus of deformation but comparable rock mass strength value for the level of con.ning pressures at the depth of the cavern excavation. The results of stress analysis and loosening wedge analysis for the cavern excavations suggest favorable excavation condition. 相似文献
The present communication deals with the composition of the trace minerals inclusions encountered in the cassiterite of some greisen and greisenized rocks at Homr Akarem area, Eastern Desert, Egypt.SEM studies, X-ray spectral analysis and EMP analyses revealed that these inclusions are to be Nb-Ta, Nb-Ti, Ta-Ti and Fe-Ti besides Ti and Fe minerals.
Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Beitrag befa\t sich mit der Zusammensetzung von Spurenmineral-Einschlüssen in Cassiteriten einiger Greisen und vergreister Gesteine aus dem Homr Akarem Gebiet der Eastern Desert, Ägypten. Untersuchungen mit dem Rasterelektronenmikroskop, Röntgenspektralanalysen und Mikrosondenanalysen ergaben, da\ diese Einschlüsse Nb-Ta, Nb-Ti, Ta-Ti und Fe-Ti sein müssen, neben Ti- und Fe-Mineralen.
Résumé Cette contribution a trait à la composition des inclusions minérales en trace dans la cassitérite de quelques greisen et roches gresinifiées dans la région de Homr Akarem, désert oriental, Egypte.Des etudes SEM, des analyses spectrales aux rayons X et des analyses EMP ont montré que ces inclusions sont des minéraux Nb-Ta, Nb-Ti, Ta-Ti et Fe-Ti en plus de minéraux Ti et Fe.
We employed X-ray diffraction methods to quantify clay mineral assemblages in the Indus Delta and flood plains since ~ 14 ka, spanning a period of strong climatic change. Assemblages are dominated by smectite and illite, with minor chlorite and kaolinite. Delta sediments integrate clays from across the basin and show increasing smectite input between 13 and 7.5 ka, indicating stronger chemical weathering as the summer monsoon intensified. Changes in clay mineralogy postdate changes in climate by 5–3 ka, reflecting the time needed for new clay minerals to form and be transported to the delta. Samples from the flood plains in Punjab show evidence for increased chemical weathering towards the top of the sections (6–< 4 ka), counter to the trend in the delta, at a time of monsoon weakening. Clay mineral assemblages within sandy flood-plain sediment have higher smectite/(illite + chlorite) values than interbedded mudstones, suggestive of either stronger weathering or more sediment reworking since the Mid Holocene. We show that marine records are not always good proxies for weathering across the entire flood plain. Nonetheless, the delta record likely represents the most reliable record of basin-wide weathering response to climate change. 相似文献
The Gour Oumelalen area exposes Paleoproterozoic (1.9 Ga) marbles and calc-silicate granulites. Some marbles show a specific mineralogy characterized by the presence of a highly aluminous clinopyroxene with Al2O3 content exceeding16 wt%. This clinopyroxene shows a marked zoning with a hedenbergitic core rimmed by fassaite. Phase relations are expressed by spectacular reaction textures in calc-silicate granulites as Opx + Cpx + Pl + H2O == > Grt + Qtz ± Am and Cpx + Ilm + Pl ± Mt = > Grt + Qtz + Spn. In olivine-bearing marbles, clinopyroxene and dolomite occur around olivine and calcite. According to thermodynamic modeling in the Na2O–CaO–FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O–TiO2–Fe2O3 (NCFMASHTO) system, the first stage of metamorphism is located at 800 °C and 6–7 kbar, which is followed by an increase in pressure at 9–10 kbar and 800 °C and an isobaric cooling at 680 °C. The deduced anticlockwise P–T path is consistent with a granulitic metamorphism occurring in an active continental margin context.
Electrical responses of the subsurface can be used to identify geologic strata, locate anomalies, detect and delineate contamination,
among many other applications. All these applications depend on the spatial variations of electrical properties in the subsurface
and the resulting flow pattern of electric current. Due to the heterogeneity of the subsurface and complex boundary conditions,
three-dimensional electric current flow problems are not easy to analyze, in particular when the response is frequency- and/or
time-dependent. In this paper, a method of electric circuit analogy is proposed to simulate the electrical responses of geomaterials
using the circuit simulator SPICE. The technique will allow simulation of more complex electrical conduction behavior of geomaterials
without much extra effort. The excellent agreement between simulated results and analytical solutions developed for surface
geophysical techniques establishes the viability of the method. Limitations of the approach and potential solutions to relax
these limitations, and other potential applications of the technique in geosciences are also discussed. 相似文献