RBCA Notes Newsletters
PTS issues periodic newsletters (our "RBCA Notes") to help our clients better understand our business and the benefits of PTS special expertise. Click on a link below to view and print these newsletters. If you would like to be put on our mailing list and receive a free copy of these newsletters as they are written, please send an email request to our customer service representative at: info@ptsgeolabs.com.

RBCA Notes - Porosity I		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes - Porosity II		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes - Total Organic Carbon – TOC		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes - Vadose Zone Capillarity		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes – Permeability		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes - Laser Particle Size Analyses (LPSA)		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes - General Definition		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes - Soil Weight/Volume Relations		(View PDF File)
RBCA Notes - Core Photography		(View PDF File)
Diagnostic Tests		(View PDF File)
Sample Size/Volume Requirements		(View PDF File)

Core Handling and Shipping Information

PTS Laboratories Chain of Custody		(View PDF File)
Core Handling Recommendations		(View PDF File)
Shipping Frozen Core		(View PDF File)
Shipping Fluids		(View PDF File)

Example Reports
If the Example Report you are interested in is not listed, it is available by request from our customer service representative at: info@ptsgeolabs.com.

Routine Core Analysis		(View PDF File)
Laser Particle Size Analyses (LPSA)		(View PDF File)
TNRCC Package		(View PDF File)
Air/Water Drainage Capillary Pressure		(View PDF File)
Van Genuchten Parameters		(View PDF File)
Free Product Mobility (Residual Saturation)		(View PDF File)
Oil Fingerprinting – FSCOT		(View PDF File)
Typical “Mobility” Program		(View PDF File)

Technical Papers

Soil Moisture Curve Fitting for Quantifying the Hydraulic Functions of Unsaturated Soils		(View PDF File)
Improved Techniques for Core Handling to Enhance Subsurface Site Assessment		(View PDF File)
Integration of Forensic Geochemistry and Core Analysis for Subsurface Site Characterization		(View PDF File)
A Practical Technique for Quantifying Drainage Porosity		(View PDF File)