abstract- greenhouse experiment was conducted in factorial experiment arranged as a completely randomized design (crd) to evaluate the effect of glomus intraradices, pseudomonas fluorescence and soil drying on different forms of potassium (k) and the changes of clay minerals in a calcareous soil after maize planting. treatments consisted of arbuscular mycorrhizal (am) fungus at two levels: g0 (...

However, they played an important role in the understanding of soil properties and land use planning, and came later to provide a useful basis for national soil mapping. The geological surveys gave rise to the so-called Quaternary and Petrological Maps, the first one being published 1857. The maps show mineralogy and texture and genesis of the parent material, e.g. texture of glacial till and w...

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) including nickel and chromium are often present in soils overlying basalt at concentrations above regulatory guidance values due to the presence of these elements in underlying geology. Oral bioaccessibility testing allows the risk posed by PTEs to human health to be assessed; however, bioaccessibility is controlled by factors including mineralogy, particle siz...

An urban survey of Lisbon, the largest city in Portugal, was carried out to investigate its environmental burden, emphasizing metallic elements and their public health impacts. This paper examines the geochemistry of lead (Pb) and its influence on human health data. A total of 51 soil samples were collected from urban recreational areas used by children to play outdoors. The semi-quantitative a...

Introduction: Before establishing a human outpost on the Moon, numerous problems associated with lunar dust must be addressed and mitigated [1, 2]. The deleterious nature of lunar dusts was experienced during all Apollo missions. Lunar dusts (brought in on dirty spacesuits and boots) contaminated the atmosphere in the lunar module and irritated the eyes, sinuses, and throats of the astronauts [...

Introduction: One of the current goals of the Selenoligcal and Engineering Explorer “KAGUYA” (SELENE) and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M, aboard Chadrayaan-1) missions is the accurate determination of surface composition. These data are being collected with the knowledge that when light interacts with an airless body surface it is either absorbed or reflected in a way unique to each of the most ...

Exact estimates of soil clay (<2 μm) and silt (2-20 μm) contents are crucial as these size fractions impact key soil functions, and as pedotransfer concepts based on clay and silt contents are becoming increasingly abundant. We examined the effect of removing soil organic matter (SOM) by H2O2 before soil dispersion and determination of clay and silt. Soil samples with gradients in SOM were retr...