Soil-crack characteristics - Estimation methods applied to heavy soils in the NOPEX area

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 98-99, Issue , 1999, Pages 501-507

  Novak V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Soil cracks; Swelling soils; Water infiltration; Water retention

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; INFILTRATION; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SOIL CRACKING; SOIL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033621380     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00119-7     Document Type: Article

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