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Thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity are found to have a linear relationship with the density of silt soil. When the gravimetric water content is less than 30%, the thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity of silty clay soil increase linearly with density.

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effective for estimating soil electrical resistivity from soil thermal conductivity

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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations.

Qiang Sun
Xi'an University of Science and Technology

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This page is a summary of: Semiempirical correlation between thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity for silt and silty clay soils, Geophysics, May 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
DOI: 10.1190/geo2018-0549.1.
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