RESEARCH
Assessment of
traditional soil classification techniques versus electromagnetic induction
(EMI) and ground penetrating radar (GPR) at two separate sites on the southern
Mississippi Valley Silty Uplands
Western Kentucky
Left: Kevin Raley, Ryan Noble and Leroy
Leonard set up the EMI Center:
The EMI at work Right:
GPR at work in Kentucky
Northern Mississippi
(L) Leroy and Robbie find sampling points
using GPS. (C) The Probe truck in
action. (R) Ryan and Kevin sample and
describe the morphology
Complete characterization of soil profiles from the Kursk Oblast, Russia
A Russian Chernozem (Mollisols in
most cases) and the landscape NW of Kursk, in the Kursk Oblast, Russia.
Dr. Tom Ammons at another
Chernozem sampling site in the Kursk Oblast, Russia.
Revegetation of copper mine tailings in the Copper Basin, Tennessee
200 acre bare tailings
pond.
Establishing vegetation on tailings (UT Probe Truck in foreground).
The two pictures above show the mine tailings
ponds on the Copper Hill site.
Mowing plots for biomass
analysis.
Revegetation test plot one and a half years after beginning project.
The two pictures above show the warm season grasses growing on the Copper Hill mine site five years after reclamation.
Visiting scholar, Professor Ivan
Vassenev, from the
Russia Research Institute on
Agronomy and Soil Erosion Control,
inspects a minesoil profile.
Hydric soil delineation on copper mine tailings
One of 5 wetlands formed on mine tailings pond.
Vanessa Stevens examines the hydric soils
on the tailings pond.
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County pictures
Non-Intrusive Soil Mapping Analysis at the Ames Plantation
Dr. Janice Branson (far left)
instructs graduate students (left to right)
Vanessa Stevens, Andy Hartman,
and Tommy Cook on pulling cores
for research on ground
penetrating radar (GPR) and soil morphology.
Leroy Leonard, Danny Inman, and Dave
Walker
GPR in tow
using EMI and GPS
(Click here
for Ames Plantation webpage)
Australian Minesoil Characterization
The landscapes from the Oaky
Creek mine (Queensland) and the Lidell mine (New South Wales) with their
respective minesoil profiles
below.
