ABSTRACT-Nowadays farmers often use N-fertilizers to increase crop yield, but they lost quickly by leaching causes environmental contaminations that reported as most important source of pollutant. Although biofilters are useful for removing nitrate from drainage water, but many researches show that they need an external carbon source to sustain denitrification. Many researchers study on differe...

Three main features of paleosols are useful for distinguishing them from enclosing rocks: root traces, soil horizons, and soil structures. Fossil root traces are best preserved in formerly waterlogged paleosols. In oxidized paleosols their organic matter may not be preserved, but root traces can be recognized by their irregular, tubular shape, and by their downward tapering and branching. Often...

Introduction: Data collected by the Mars Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) orbiting aboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicates that the global distribution of chlorine on Mars is heterogeneous [1]. The GRS 50% footprint has a diameter of ~440 km for low energy Cl lines and ~540 km for high energy Cl lines, however smoothing with a 10-degree radius filter is required to improve signal to noise...

Steady-state and transient one-dimensional unsaturated flow in vertically stratified porous media are examined. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and the alpha parameter of the exponential hydraulic conductivity function were assumed to vary from soil layer to soil layer. The use of effective unsaturated hydraulic conductivity to compute matric potential in the soil profile is demonstrated. Resu...

Liquid waste is the main source of contamination water bodies, especially river water. This pollution causes decreased quality in bodies. One wastewater treatment treatments Multi Soil Layering (MSL) method. Some advantages using MSL method are that it known to be cheap terms cost, easy implement, does not require complicated maintenance so can used continuously, and also environmentally friend...

it is proposed to use a single base platform in the persian gulf considering its low depth and more appropriate environmental conditions in comparison to north sea and mexico gulf where this kind of platform is very popular. the pile of platform is responsible for transmission of environmental loads resulted from waves, currents, wind and dead loads to foundation of platform. using sacs 5.3 sof...

Considering soil layering is a crucial and effective issue in investigating the seismicity of structures. However, previous studies have not examined presence rock layer soft soil. So, present paper, effect on forces displacements created low-and mid-rise steel moment frame was investigated. Thus, several numerical calculations were performed 12 different sizes layers at three depths. Finite el...