29th April 2010, 09:52 AM
Yes agree about flint. And don't forget that article published years ago about machine-stripping versus hand-digging, can't remember offhand its title.
Not so much inexperienced people in charge of stripping away vast volumes of potentially highly informative past landscape profiles of erosive, alluvial, colluvial - and bioturbative - nature which may protect or expose buried soils etc; more a case of lack of time....?, and what a "non-site" could usefully tell you if there aren't any obvious fills+cuts and goodies in them to worry about archiving (but the catch!: you won't necessarily know that until you've hit "natural" - since your eval may or may not inform your predictive model depending on your sample size and the type of distribution you're assuming).
Are soil samples not for sale too....?
Not so much inexperienced people in charge of stripping away vast volumes of potentially highly informative past landscape profiles of erosive, alluvial, colluvial - and bioturbative - nature which may protect or expose buried soils etc; more a case of lack of time....?, and what a "non-site" could usefully tell you if there aren't any obvious fills+cuts and goodies in them to worry about archiving (but the catch!: you won't necessarily know that until you've hit "natural" - since your eval may or may not inform your predictive model depending on your sample size and the type of distribution you're assuming).
Are soil samples not for sale too....?
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