Potential Use of Organic- and Hard-Rock Mine Wastes on Aided Phytostabilization of Large-Scale Mine Tailings under Semiarid Mediterranean Climatic Conditions: Short-Term Field Study

Table 3

Texture of experimental substrates (bulk) at the time of establishment of the field assay (year 1, 2006), at a depth of 0–20 cm. Codes of treatments follow Table 1.

Treatment	Texture (%)			Texture type*	Particles >2,000 μm
	<2 μm	2 μm–50 μm	50 μm–2,000 μm		(%)
C	14	42	44	Loam	11
RM	13	33	54	Loam	39
RMS	12	25	63	Sandy loam	39
B1	12	43	45	Loam	21
B2	20	43	37	Loam	38
G1	16	44	40	Loam	15
G2	19	40	41	Loam	19
O1	9	37	54	Loam	8
O2	11	30	59	Sandy Loam	18
GB	21	42	37	Loam	15
GM	15	37	47	Loam	20
OB	11	50	39	Silt Loam	19
OM	18	40	42	Loam	17

*According to the soil textural classification chart of the US Department of Agriculture.