Wood chips as a soil cover for construction sites with steep slopes

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 679-683

  Buchanan, J R ^a   Yoder, D C ^b   Denton, H P ^b   Smoot, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion control; Soil cover; Soil erosion; Wood chips

Indexed keywords

EROSION; LAND FILL; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; TIMBER;

CONSTRUCTION SITES; SOIL COVER; STEEP SLOPES; WOOD CHIPS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

EID: 0036881890     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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