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Geophysical prospection as a noninvasive archaeological survey technique has become a widely applied discipline that is currently finding its way into the former World War 1 (WW1) battlefields. Because of the imminent danger of unexploded ordnances, noninvasiveness is the key to exploring the subsurface containing our buried heritage. Fluxgate magnetometry (FGM), a frequently applied prospection technique in archaeology and unexploded ordnance ...

While laboratory methods of elemental analysis of soil nutrients are used frequently to support soil studies, the implementation of more portable and cost-efficient methods lingers behind. The portable (handheld) X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF) is one such tool enabling onsite elemental analysis in a straightforward manner. However, in soil studies the use of XRF often remains cumbersome, following the poor performance of the method for ...

In the past decade, the research of archaeological remains from World War I has become mainstream. This article uses non-destructive techniques to investigate the possible material remains of tank warfare in Belgium. During World War I, tanks were used for the first time as a 'land battleship' in order to break through the stalemate in the trenches. During the Battle of Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres (1917), tanks were used in Belgium to ...

The saturated hydraulic conductivity (K-s) is considered to be one of the main soil hydraulic properties to simulate water transport in the vadose zone, yet it is notoriously difficult to assess due to its large field-scale variability and sensitivity to preferential flow paths. With the increasing availability of convenient methods to measure the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (K-u), the additional value of measuring K-s could be ...