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Synonyms for delve

to go into or through for the purpose of making discoveries or acquiring information

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to break, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example) with or as if with a tool

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For example, when using a 5% precision ([+ or -] 0.02%) in the 20-30 cm layer of the SE delved treatment (Table 2) with an OC concentration of 0.4%, 146 samples in a 25-m grid are required.
Sampling methodology for delved soils determined that the sample number for reliable estimation of OC was 10 for stratified sampling and totals of 31 for SE and 18 for EP sites when sampling delve-line and off-delve areas separately.
The EP delved treatment had OC distribution similar to the unmodified control site.
Increases in organic carbon concentration and stock after clay addition to sands: validation of sampling methodology and effects of modification method
When Adam delved and Eve span, Who then was the gentleman?
Women's Work, The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Sites A and C were delved in 2007 and 2009, respectively, to an average depth of 0.55 m with large (wide) delving tines spaced 0.9 m apart.
At each site, areas of the paddock were chosen to represent the original, undelved soil profile and the delved soil profile.
The images for the delved soil were then separated into the two distinct regions of modified soil (equally sized at 0.45 m wide by 0.9 m high): the on-delving-line and off-line regions (Figs 3 and 4).
Increased profile wettability in texture-contrast soils from clay delving: case studies in South Australia
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