Since 1989 and until the summer of this year, all soil testing laboratories in Iowa and the USA dried soil samples at 35 to 40 oC (95 to 104 oF) and ground them before analysis for potassium (K), phosphorus (P), and other nutrients. Since early fall, however, a laboratory that began operations in Iowa is using testing procedures that involve no soil sample drying, and another laboratory operati...

Although the principal means to confirm indoor radon involves testing buildings, soil-based investigations are of value in identifying land areas that pose special concerns. Ideally, soil-based measurements would relate to radon production, diffusive transport, and convective transport into buildings. This paper briefly reviews technologies for measuring radon in soil gas, radon flux, and soil ...

One of the important issues in the analysis of soils is to evaluate their features. In estimation of the hardly available properties, it seems the using of Data mining is appropriate. Therefore, the modelling of some soil quality indicators, using some of the early features of soil which have been proved by some researchers, have been considered. For this purpose, 140 disturbed and 140 undistur...

Soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) is a parameter that represents soil fertility. Being difficult to measure, pedotransfer functions (PTFs) can be routinely applied for prediction of CEC by soil physicochemical properties that can be easily measured. This study developed the support vector regression (SVR) combined with genetic algorithm (GA) together with the adaptive network-based fuzzy infe...

Title of Thesis: EVALUATION OF LABILE SOIL CARBON TEST FOR PREDICTION OF SOIL PRODUCTIVITY RESPONSE TO ORGANIC MATTER MANAGEMENT Shawn T. Lucas, Master of Science, 2004 Thesis Directed by: Professor Ray R. Weil Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture A KMnO4 oxidation method for estimating labile soil C (CL) was evaluated for use in a soil testing mode to identify soi...

This paper tries to study the effect of geosynthetic inclusion on the improvement of the load-settlement characters of two layered soil. In addition, the effect of geogrid and geotextile in reduction of the required thickness of subbase layer in unpaved roads is studied. Considering the vast application of bearing ratio tests in road construction projects, this test is used in present investiga...