Sieving duration and sieve loading impacts on dry soil fragment size distributions

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-20

  Diaz Zorita M ^a,b   Grove, J H ^c   Perfect, E ^d  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b Nitragin Argentina SA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Laboratory procedure; Soil physics; Soil structure; Tillage

Indexed keywords

CROPS; EROSION; POROSITY;

LABORATORY PROCEDURE; SOIL AGGREGATION; SOIL PHYSICS; TILLAGE;

SOILS;

CLAY LOAM; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SIEVING; SILTY LOAM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL STRUCTURE; TILLAGE;

FARM CROPS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STRUCTURE;

EID: 33847754289     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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