Bimsoil slope (Bimslope) or Soil-Rock-Mixture slopes are complex geological formations made up of geotechnically important ‘blocks’ enclosed in a finer-textured ‘matrix.’ These geomaterials possess heterogeneous properties owing to changes in the block and matrix properties that can arise from natural weathering processes or various anthropogenic activities. The present study focuses on the stability analysis of a Bimslope und...

Environmental samples have been analysed for viruses in metagenomic studies, but these studies have not linked individual viruses to their hosts. We designed a strategy to isolate double‐stranded RNA, a hallmark of RNA virus infection, from individual plants and convert this to cDNA with a unique four nucleotide Tag at each end. Using 96 different Tags allowed us to pool samples and still retain the link to the original sample...