Water Retention and Characteristic Curve

Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 278-289

  Tuller, M ^a   Or, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; WATER CHARACTERISTICS; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

EID: 85069601816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-348530-4/00376-3     Document Type: Chapter

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