Physical and empirical models for estimation of specific surface area of soils

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-335

  Sepaskhah, Ali Reza ^a   Tabarzad, Amir ^a   Fooladmand, Hamid Reza ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Geometric mean; Geometric standard deviation; Pedo transfer function; Specific surface area

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951032690     PISSN: 03650340     EISSN: 14763567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03650340903099676     Document Type: Article

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