Soil erosion by surface water flow on a stony, semiarid hillslope

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 677-686

  Nearing, M A ^a,b   Simanton, J R ^b   Norton, L D ^a   Bulygin, S J ^c   Stone, J ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences Kiev   (Ukraine)

^d 1196 Soil Building ^*

Author keywords

Hydraulic roughness; Hydraulics; Rill erosion; Rocks; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; HILLSLOPE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; RILL; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; WATER EROSION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032696546     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199908)24:8<677::AID-ESP981>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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