Online Measurement of Soil Organic Carbon as Correlated with Wheat Normalised Difference Vegetation Index in a Vertisol Field by Yücel Tekin, Yahya Ulusoy, Zeynal Tümsavaş, Abdul M. Mouazen

“…The online measurement was carried out in a clay vertisol field covering 10 ha of area in Karacabey, Bursa, Turkey. …”
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Characteristics of an Altered Diabase Dike in a Coal Seam: A Case Study from the Datong Coalfield, Shanxi, China by Xiaoxia Song, Kaijie Li, Hongtao Ma, Dongna Liu, Jingui Zhao, Jiarui Zhou

“…The water activity is especially high at the edges of the dike. Albite and clay minerals were formed due to the albitization of labradorite. …”
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Adsorption of Atenolol on Talc: An Indication of Drug Interference with an Excipient by Zhaohui Li, Nicole M. Fitzgerald, Guocheng Lv, Wei-Teh Jiang, Limei Wu

“…In this study, the adsorption of atenolol (AT), a β-blocker, on talc, a clay mineral of pH-dependent surface charge, was evaluated under different physicochemical conditions such as the initial AT concentration, equilibrium time, solution pH, ionic strength and temperature. …”
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Plate Size Effects in Gravelly Soil Based on In Situ Plate Load Tests and Finite Element Analysis by Wenshuai Li, Qiyu Tao, Rui Gu, Chao Li, Guoliang Dai, Weiming Gong

“…The findings suggest that the coefficient of subgrade reaction for gravelly soil foundations can be effectively estimated using Terzaghi’s extrapolation method for the coefficient of subgrade reaction in clay. Although variations in test plate diameter may alter the shape of the average contact stress–settlement curve, the overall pattern of change remains consistent. …”
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Cultivation of sorghum and sunflower in soils with amendment of sludge from industrial landfill by Leonardo Capeleto de Andrade, Robson Andreazza, Flávio Anastácio de Oliveira Camargo

“…TP soil presented better results, being more secure to receive the sludge due to its higher content of clay when compared to the GH soil.…”
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Assessment of Solid Waste Management Practices in Kabowohe Division, Sheema Muinicipal Council, Sheema District by Hilda, Karungi

“…This clarifies that 2.72 metric tons of solid waste are generated per clay, with only 48.47 metric tons collected or removed from landfills and other areas, with the composition of solid waste generated being (83.6%) organic or plant origin, (0.9%) waste paper, 1.2% waste plastics, 0.3% waste metals, 0.1% sasscullet materials, and (3.9%) other materials (District Environmental Health Annual Report, 2014). …”
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Physical and Compaction Properties of Granular Materials with Artificial Grading behind the Particle Size Distributions by Ming-liang Chen, Gao-jian Wu, Bin-rui Gan, Wan-hong Jiang, Jia-wen Zhou

“…Granular materials in geotechnical engineering is generally considered to be mixtures of clay, sand, and gravel that commonly appear in slopes, valleys, or river beds, and they are especially used for the construction of earth-rock-filled dams. …”
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Geogenic perspectives on potassium dynamics and plant uptake: insights from natural and submerged conditions across different soil types with machine learning predictions by Saibal Ghosh, Gourav Mondal, Shreya Chakraborty, Sonali Banerjee, Sumit Kumar, Riddhi Basu, Pradip Bhattacharyya

“…Black soil (S8) had the highest cation exchange capacity (CEC: 31.25 cmol (p+)/kg) and clay content (41.2%), while alluvial soil had the most organic carbon (S5: 1.74%). …”
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Influence of prolong curing, freeze thaw cycles on strength and compaction condition on water retention behaviour of bamboo biochar amended soils by Shailesh Kumar Yadav, Ramakrishna Bag

“…Bamboo biochar (BB) was mixed with lean clay (CL) and silty sand (SM) in five different percentages (0%, 1%, 2%, 3.5% and 5% w/w) to prepare BAS specimens for unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and water retention tests. …”
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Revisiting shallow glauconite factories: intertwined fates of glauconite and iron by Tribovillard, Nicolas

“…The most widespread view is that glauconite forms very slowly from a clay precursor, in environments where low sedimentation rates allow prolonged contact over time between the authigenic mineral and seawater. …”
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A High-Status Middle Sarmatian Burial from the Kovalevka Burial Complex in the Volgograd Region by Valeriy M. Klepikov

“…On both sides of the cauldron there were two gray-clay pottery jugs made in Kuban pottery centers. …”
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Soil-Borne Microbial Functional Structure across Different Land Uses by Eiko E. Kuramae, Jizhong Z. Zhou, George A. Kowalchuk, Johannes A. van Veen

“…C : N ratio showed a significant positive correlation with clay and soil pH. Fields with low C : N ratio had an overrepresentation of genes for carbon degradation, carbon fixation, metal reductase, and organic remediation categories, while fields with high C : N ratio had an overrepresentation of genes encoding dissimilatory sulfate reductase, methane oxidation, nitrification, and nitrogen fixation. …”
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Groundwater Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment using a Dar-Zarrouk Parameter in a Proposed Aboru Residential Estate, Lagos State, Nigeria by M.A. Ayuk

“…The VES delineated four (4) geo-electric layers namely; topsoil, pebbly/lateritic sand, clay/clayey/silty sand and sandstone. The depth to the sandstone aquifer ranges from 30.6 – 39.4 m with resistivity values ranging from 851 – 1437 Ωm. …”
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Maksimovka I Grave Field (Forest-Steppe Volga Region): Results of the 2019 Excavations by Arkadii I. Korolev, Anton A. Shalapinin

“…In the last burial, the skeleton was lying on back in a northern-northwestern direction, accompanied by an ornamented clay vessel. A part of structure 1 was also examined. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Sandstone under Cyclic Loading: Damage Assessment Using Ultrasonic Wave Velocities and Changes in Elastic Modulus by Sen Yang, Nong Zhang, Xiaowei Feng, Jiaguang Kan, Dongjiang Pan, Deyu Qian

“…This results from the compression of intergranular clay minerals and fatigue failure. (2) Irreversible damage accumulations during cyclic loading with an increasing upper stress limit are the consequence of brittle failure in the sandstone’s microstructure.…”
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Impact of land use change on soil erodibility by F. Taleshian Jeloudar, M. Ghajar Sepanlou, M. Emadi

“…The rainfed farming land use showed the highest clay contents, but the highest amounts of soil organic matter and sand particles were found in orchard land use. …”
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Removal of Organic Dye Using Graphene-based Composite: Isotherm and Kinetic Studies by Preeti ., Meena Bhandari, Neeraj Kumari

“…The disappearance of peak at 2θ = 8.1° for GO-based Montmorillonite composites confirmed the homogenous distribution of GO sheets into layered Mt clay. The maximum uptake of Malachite green dye with GO-based Montmorillonite composites composite was 675 mg/g while in the case of GO, it was 315 mg/g. …”
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On the Effect of Modifications to Montmorillonite for the Desulphurization of Synthetic Gasoline by Ying Zhang, Aiping Chen, Chunzhong Li, Meifang Luo, Zhenliang Xu

“…CTAB-MMT, SiO 2 Ce-MMT and MMT (the original clay) were examined for their ability to remove thiophene sulphur from normal heptane solution as well as from synthetic gasoline. …”
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Short-Term Investigation into the Effect of the Traffic Farming Systems on the Soil Physical Behavior of an Arable Land by Kasem M. M. AL-Halfi, John McL. Bennett

“…The field experiment was carried out with clay loam soil to monitor the dry soil bulk density (BD), moisture content (dry base) (MC), and cone index (CI) till the depth of 0-60 cm under two farming systems, namely the controlled traffic farming system (CTF) and the random traffic farming system (RTF) from 1/02 - 30/04/2023. …”
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Preliminary Compositional Evidence of Provenance of Ceramics from Hatahara Archaeological Site, Central Amazonia by K. P. Nunes, R. G. Toyota, P. M. S. Oliveira, E. G. Neves, E. A. A. Soares, C. S. Munita

“…One hundred twenty four ceramic fragments and six clay samples from the Hatahara archaeological site in Amazonas state, Brazil, were analyzed using instrumental neutron activation analysis, INAA, to determine the concentration of twenty chemical elements: Ce, Co, Cr, Cs, Eu, Fe, Hf, K, La, Lu, Na, Nd, Rb, Sc, Ta, Tb, Th, U, Yb, and Zn. …”
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