This paper examines the feasibility of using calcium-based biocement to form an impermeable crust on top of a sand layer. The biocement used was a mixture of calcium salt, urea, and bacterial suspension, which hydrolyzed urea with production of carbonate and an increase of the pH level. Applying 0.6 g of Ca per c m 2 of sand surface, the permeability of the biocemented sand can be reduced from ...

introduction: heavy metals are types of elements naturally present in soil or enter into soil as a result of human activities. the most important route of exposure to heavy metals is daily intake of food. crops grown in contaminated soil (due to mining activities, industrial operations and agriculture) may contain high concentrations of heavy metals. also closeness to cities and industrial cent...

one of the ordinary methods to protect, rehabilitate, and enhance an ecosystemfunction in arid and semi-arid areas of the world is sand dune stabilization using biologicalpractices. plantation of species on the soil plays a great role in sustainable management ofthe ecosystem. this research studies the effects of cultivation of haloxylon ammodendronand atriplex canescens on physical-chemical ch...

Context Our research contributes to the knowledge of using soil algae combat degradation. Aims We tested green (Klebsormidium flaccidum) and a field community in 3-month greenhouse experiment studied their performance on two substrates: (1) sand from Ordos Desert; (2) artificial desert (washed sand). Methods A rapid fluorescence microscopy-Image J method was developed estimate abundance algae. ...

Drylands typically have distinctive vegetative patterns that reflect the underlying physical landscape. We use a geopedological classification to organize the landscape into five categories from broad scale to fine scale: (1) physiographic divisions which describe regional topography, such as mountains and basin floors; (2) regolith type which identifies residuum versus transported sediments; (...

Field monitoring and laboratory results are presented for an unsaturated volcanic pyroclastic. The pyroclastic belongs to the latest plinian eruption of the Ilopango Caldera in the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, and is constantly affected by intense erosion, collapse, slab failure, sand/silt/debris flowslide and debris avalanche during the rainy season or earthquakes. Being the flowslides m...