Eleven salt diapirs were selected for the study of surficial deposits in order to cover variability in the geology, morphology and climate in a majority of the diapirs in the Zagros Mountains and Persian Gulf Platform.
Project 2.4 aims at the comprehensive assessment of the surficial ecohydrological processes on a global scale.
The heterogeneous erodibility of the surficial sediment can change the sediment microtopography and make the sediment to be more frequently disturbed, and that is one possible reason for the higher phylogenetic turnover rate in the subtidal flat29.
The color of the surficial sediments varied from orange/yellow, white, and gray.
It is widely accepted that the frequency of the HVSR peak correlates well with the fundamental frequency of the surficial layers (e.g. [29, 30, 44]).
Sampling involved collection of the surficial soil horizon with a pre-rinsed spatula, removal of surface vegetation, and placement into labeled WhirlPak™ bags.
This study demonstrates that prolonged tidal re-inundation of severely acidified acid sulfate soil landscapes leads to the immobilisation of trace metals through the surficial accumulation of iron oxides, organic material and pyrite.
Provenance studies of Kalahari Group sediments mainly focused on the surficial deposits that represent only the last phase of sedimentation, leaving unresolved questions related to the rest of the strata.
This study compares the landscape-scale taphonomic signal of carnivore modification to the surficial bone assemblage in Amboseli Park, Kenya as it was in 1975 and 2002 2004.
The surficial geology of the two study sites is mapped as crevasse splay and point bar deposits.
