This part of ISO 13317 describes a method for the determination of the particle size distribution of a powder dispersed in a liquid using gravity sedimentation. The measurement of the concentration of solids settling in a liquid suspension is achieved by monitoring the incremental signal absorption from a beam of X-rays.

The method of determining the particle size distribution described in this part of ISO 13317 is applicable to powders which can be dispersed in liquids or powders which are present in slurry form. The typical particle size range for analysis is from about to about . The method is used for materials containing particles of the same chemical composition which produce adequate X-ray opacity. <...>

In recent years, an increasing number of studies have used single-grain age dating of detrital sediments to obtain information on sediment provenance, the thermal history and exhumation of sediment source areas, and landscape evolution. In order to highlight the value of this current development in geological research, we based this volume on papers presented in a session on detrital thermochonology at the 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting held in Denver, Colorado. This Special Paper provides a short overview of the different, nowadays commonly used, dating techniques in detrital thermochronology, followed by discussion of some of the methodological aspects of detrital thermochronology (in the first two manuscripts) and of a variety of applications of detrital thermochronology, demonstrated in several regional case studies. <...>

The physical and mechanical properties of clay materials required to scale the tectonic analogue experiments are analysed based on the modern soil mechanics concepts. A practical procedure for the determination of these properties is presented. Scaled clay experiments under Riedel shear mechanism produced a series of typical pull-apart structures. At the initial stages of the development of the deformation zone within the clay slab, the synthetic shear fractures (Riedel shears) display dilatational behaviour.

JACKSON, P. D., GUNN, D. G., FLINT, R. C., BEAMISH, D., MELDRUM, P. I., LOVELL, M. A., HARVEY, P. K. & PEYTON, A. A non-contacting resitivity imaging method for characterizing whole round core while in its liner

PROSSER, D. J., HURST, A. & WILSON, M. R. One-man operable probe permeameters

McDOUGALL, S., DIXIT, A. & SORBIE, K. S. Network analogues of wettability at the pore scale

PUGLIESE, S. & PETFORD, N. Pore-structure visualization in microdioritic enclaves 

BASAN, P. B., WHATTLER, P. R., LOWDEN, B. D. & ATTARD, J. J. Pore-size data in petrophysics: a perspective on the measurement of pore geometry