Effects of rock fragments on water movement and solute transport in a Loess Plateau soil

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 462-472

  Beibei, Zhou ^a   Ming'an, Shao ^a   Hongbo, Shao ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Key Laboratory of Eco Environmental Science for Yellow River Delta   (China)

^c QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Cumulative infiltration; Loess Plateau; Rock fragment content; Saturated hydraulic conductivity; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; LOESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL STRENGTH; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER FLOW;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 67549114259     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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