Rills often act as sediment sources and the dominant sediment and water transport mechanism
for hillslopes. Six experiments were conducted on two soils and a uniform sand using …

Carbon nanotubes (NTs) may be among the most useful engineered nanomaterials for structural
applications but could be difficult to study in ecotoxicological evaluations using existing …

Critical Zone (CZ) research investigates the chemical, physical, and biological processes
that modulate the Earth’s surface. Here, we advance 12 hypotheses that must be tested to …

High-throughput, culture-independent surveys of bacterial and archaeal communities in soil
have illuminated the importance of both edaphic and biotic influences on microbial diversity, …

… The surface 20 cm of four soils from the Midwest, studied previously by Norton and Dontsova
(1998) , were used for this study. All of the soils are found commonly in the US Corn Belt. …

Rock colonization by plant roots and their associated microbiota is one of the major drivers
of mineral weathering, nutrient cycling, soil formation and ecosystem stability. Yet the …

… Because of their importance in soils, we specifically investigate the nature of water in contact
with clays exchanged with Na, K, Mg, Ca, and a mixed Ca/Mg exchanged phase. Although …

… The xanthan used in this study was purchased as a K salt from Sigma Chemical Co. (… of
different size, but it did indicate a difference between more hydrated Li + and less hydrated K + …

… absorption spectroscopy (NEXAFS) at the carbon K edge. Measurements were carried out at
the … The peaks appearing at around 270 eV are due to 2nd order contribution from oxygen K …

… Linear distribution coefficients determined from HYDRUS-1D simulations were compared
to k d s determined by five-point batch studies using RDX and TNT with 14 C radiolabel. …