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Radiography, the use of penetrating radiation to produce shadow images of the internal structure of materials, has been with us since Roentgen made his discovery of x rays in 1895. However, applications of radiography in the earth sciences and in the related field of soils engineering have, until recently, been slow to develop.
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Krinitzsky, E.L. (1970). Introduction. In: Radiography in the Earth Sciences and Soil Mechanics. Monographs in Geoscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1803-3_1
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