Science news articles about 'soil analysis'

... different pore shapes and different elemental solids. Many approaches have been used to examine soil variation at these diverse scales, but there is a common difficulty among methods in separating ...

Researchers investigated different components of variation in soil at diverse scales ranging from the nanoscale to entire biomes in order to improve predictions of soil processes. Scientists used a ...

... new analysis of Martian soil data led by University of California, Berkeley, geoscientists suggests ... dust and salt but periodic liquid water to the soil surface that move the salts downward." Amundson ...

PASADENA, Calif., July 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says the next sample of Martian soil to be analyzed by the Phoenix Mars Lander might be its last.

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... growing season's end in mid-August, soil in warmed greenhouses produced about half as much ... cooler control plots. A soil analysis found that about half as much active fungi were present in experimental ...

... magnetic resonance (31P NMR) and other methods of soil analysis have previously shown that two forms ... 50% of total P) but was not retained in crop soils and ditch sediments, where concentrations dropped ...

... , it was presumed the farmer wanted to set up a water bore hole. But as a string of vans bearing the names of soil analysis companies and then a host of Portakabins turned up at the ...