Tag: loess

Laboratory tests on three Elymus grasses in the Xining Basin show root networks raise loess cohesion by up to about ...

Laboratory triaxial tests show that 3 percent polymer hydrogel raised the shear strength of Yili loess by 82.5 percent after ...

Shortly before midnight on 18 December 2023, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Jishishan County in Gansu Province, northwestern China, and ...

A Scientific Reports abstract reports laboratory tests identifying the preparation conditions associated with the highest unconfined compressive strength in EICP-treated ...

Field monitoring in Inner Mongolia's coal mining region reveals that land subsidence shifts freeze-thaw timing and reorganizes the nonlinear coupling ...

On the loess plateaus of northwestern China, landslides do not always behave the way people expect soil to behave. When ...

Centrifuge model tests show that 85 to 95 percent of settlement in China's massive loess high-fill foundations occurs during construction ...

A field study in Plant and Soil shows that whether reconstructed soils are layered or homogeneous controls depth-specific drying rates, ...

A new dissertation from the University of Mainz decodes the tangled geochemical signals of the Schwalbenberg loess deposit, revealing how ...

A thin loess sequence beneath Novi Sad's Petrovaradin Fortress shows that a mosaic of ice age habitats made the site ...