Is the tension beneath a tension infiltrometer what we think it is?

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 860-866

  Walker, C ^a   Lin, H S ^a   Fritton, D D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; INFILTROMETER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 34547882337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0096     Document Type: Article

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