Salt damage is one of the most important causes of the destruction of earthen heritage sites.
The study of salt distribution is of great significance for identifying potential erosion patterns …

Salt enrichment in the topsoil, owing to one-way migration of moisture from earthen sites to
air environment, is an important inducement to weathering of sites and relics, such as …

The earthen heritage site wall of Pianguan presented salt crystallization and pulverization in
China. In this study, rammed earth samples were collected from the heritage wall, and the …

Salt damage is one of the main problems facing the preservation of earthen sites in heritage
museums. The use of salt-inhibiting materials on the surface of earthen sites to prevent …

A large number of exquisite sandstone grottoes remaining along the Silk Road in Northwest
China suffer from severe salt damage due to the vulnerability of the sandstone materials …

In Ayutthaya, Thailand, there are numerous monuments suffering from deterioration due to
salt weathering. In this study, the occurrence and process of salt weathering are described …

Under the action of unidirectional water migration, museum soil sites generally encounter
erosion through dry cracking, salt enrichment, etc. In this paper, the earthen site of the Terra …

Numerous important earthen heritage sites in northwestern China have survived until today
because of the arid and semi-arid climate. However, most of them suffer from various types …

Salt crystallization in pore spaces will usually cause major damage to natural sandstone.
Salt distribution and movement are hard to detect in the field within a small scale …

Earthen sites in China have great historic, artistic, and scientific values embedded in
archaeology, raw materials, and construction techniques. However, high concentrations of …