Mass, surface, and fragmentation fractal dimensions of soil fragments produced by tillage

Geoderma

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 261-278

  Gimenez D ^a   Allmaras, R R ^a   Huggins, D R ^b   Nater, E A ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Surface roughness; Tillage

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SOIL AGGREGATE; TILLAGE;

EID: 0032213667     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7061(98)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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