EPA site-specific soil sampling result letters went out to 40 landowners affected by the Yellowstone River oil spill.
Subsurface exploration usually involves soil sampling and laboratory tests of the soil samples retrieved.
But perhaps the most worrisome aspect of the approval revolves around the commission's reference to a soil sampling taken last year that revealed possible contamination of the site with toxic chemicals.
There are three main problems with soil sampling.
Natural waters, including surface waters and shallow groundwaters, contain information about mobile weathering products which may be used in a complimentary manner to stream sediment and soil sampling (Edmunds, 1971).
A steady trickle of soil samplings passed under his eyes.
These rebounds are commonly the result of multiple (relatively small) release areas that had not been previously discovered with discrete soil sampling.
It included complete details on the route, terrain, soil sampling, and other information.
The object of soil sampling is to obtain a composite of a particular area.
Students from the School of Earth Sciences carried out an active gold exploration programme using surface and underground diamond drilling techniques, geochemical soil sampling and geophysics.