Measuring hydraulic conductivity in a cracking clay soil using the Guelph Permeameter

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 957-964

  Bagarello, V ^a   Iovino, M ^b   Reynolds, W D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compaction; Equilibration time; Smearing; Soil; Swelling

Indexed keywords

CLAY SOIL; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERMEAMETER;

EID: 0033169132     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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