Soil water retention at varying matric potentials following repeated wetting with modestly saline-sodic water and subsequent air drying

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 19-20, 2007, Pages 2619-2634

  Browning, Linzy S ^a   Hershberger, Kimberly R ^a   Bauder, James W ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal bed methane; Dispersion; Matric potential; Salinity; Sodicity; Soil water retention

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; NATURAL GAS; SATURATION; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER RETENTION;

NORTH AMERICA; POWDER RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36249009215     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: 15322416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103620701662836     Document Type: Article

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