Sentence examples similar to pit soils from inspiring English sources

The initial total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) of the flare pit soil was found to be 16%.

The feasibility of fungi bioaugmentation in composting of a flare pit soil was studied in lab-scale composters.

In order to better reflect the influence of foundation pit excavation to bridge pile foundation, 3d numerical analysis method considering the interaction of pit, soil and pile was used.

Soil cutter was used to cut soil from the trial pit soil block sample and placed to fill the remainder half of the mould.

From each small and shallow pit, soil samples from two fixed depths (0 10 and 10 20 cm) were collected and samples from the same depth were thoroughly mixed in a large bucket to form composite soil samples for the plot (Fig. 2).

Pseudomonas aeruginosa MCM B-327 isolated from vermicompost pit soil has been shown to produce a depilating protease with no significant collagenolytic activity and its potential use in depilating buffalo hide has been successfully demonstrated [17].

Prior studies suggest that levels of radon in ambient air are low; our finding merits further study because the Marcellus shale is known to contain elevated levels of uranium (U.S. EPA 2008), and flowback water and reserve pit soil can contain elevated levels of radium, which could create an environmental exposure pathway (Rich and Crosby 2013; Rowan et al. 2011; Warner et al. 2012).

Seven prostigmatid mite families that were relatively abundant in undisturbed soils were absent or of low abundance in ant-nest modified and porcupine-pit soils at mid- and low-slope catena locations.

This study examined such a comparison over the Okanagan Valley and Kamloops region of British Columbia where good quality soil pit and soil survey data were available.

Thus, through widespread foraging pits, soil turnover, and numerous burrows, porcupines modulate the availability of resources to other organisms.

The Luvic Phaeozem horizons and the pits were investigated by combining methods from (geo-) archaeology (geographical distribution within the landscape, shape of the pits, soil texture), geochemistry (content of carbon, nitrogen and black carbon), palaeobotany (species determination of charcoals) and AMS 14C measurements.