Calculating capillary pressures in frozen and ice-free soils below the melting temperature

Environmental Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 130-136

  Grant, Steven A ^a   Sletten, Ronald S ^b  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Cold regions; Frozen ice soils

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; ICE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MELTING; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

ICE-FREE SOILS;

FROZEN SOILS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FROZEN GROUND; ICE; PERMAFROST;

EID: 0036626507     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-001-0482-y     Document Type: Article

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