Effect of surface stone cover on sediment and solute transport on the slope of fallow land in the semi-arid loess region of northwestern China

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1200-1208

  Guo, Tailong ^a,b   Wang, Quanjiu ^b,c   Li, Dingqiang ^a   Zhuang, Jie ^d  

^a GUANGDONG INSTITUTE OF ECO ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOIL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow hydraulics; Soil erosion; Solute transport; Stone size; Surface stone cover

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; CROP PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FALLOW; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAVEL; HYDRAULICS; LOESS; MULCH; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROUGHNESS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER FLOW;

CHINA;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 77955848513     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-010-0257-8     Document Type: Article

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