The laboratory excavation of a soil block from sylvester manorThis article describes a method of retrieving a large intact soil block from the midden area of the Sylvester Manor site....
Contour maps of root length density (left) and soil mineral n (nmin, right) concentration of three maize varieties from china (zd 958 and xy 335) and us (p32d79) in a soil volume of 70 cm × 30 cm to a depth of 60 cm.... The soil samples were taken using the monolith method (Böhm, 1979) with 10 cm3 soil block at silking in 2011....
Stability of soil block on low interface friction plane with and without side supports... The main focus of this paper is to investigate the stability of a soil block, with and without side supports, resting on a low interface friction plane by employing a three-dimensional finite element analysis (3D FEA)....
High-resolution laboratory lysimeter for automated sampling of tracers through a 0.5 m soil block...0.5-m lysimeter, designed to give superior temporal and spatial resolution for monitoring the movement of chemical tracers through a large undisturbed soil block, is described....
