Development of Soil Crusts Under Simulated Rainfall and Crust Formation on a Loess Soil as Influenced by Polyacrylamide

Pedosphere

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 415-424

  Hu, Xia ^a   Liu, Lian You ^a   Li, Shun Jiang ^b   Cai, Qiang Guo ^c   Lü, Yan Li ^a   Guo, Jin Rui ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Depositional crust; Raindrop impact; Soil aggregates; Splash erosion; Structural crust

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE STABILITY; COMPACTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOESS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; POLYMER; POROSITY; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CRUST; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL TEXTURE; SUBSOIL;

EID: 84860471450     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(12)60027-7     Document Type: Article

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