Soil physics
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Soil physics
Wiley, 1987
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A world-wide interest in soil and water conservation is forcing greater emphasis to be placed on the teaching of soil physics. This is the first comprehensive university level text on the subject, primarily designed to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate soil physics courses and as a basis for postgraduate courses. It attempts to convey the idea that soil is a multiphase system and the first three sections deal with the three phases of soil: solid, liquid and gas. An important feature of this book is that it collects together information scattered in numerous original research papers, standard texts of physics, physical chemistry, soil mechanics, geophysics etc and interweaves it to present a clear picture of the modern view of the soil physical phenomena.
Table of Contents
- SECTION 1 - SOIL SOLIDS: Nature of Soil Solids
- Hydration of Soil Solids: Physical Behaviour of Clay- Water Systems
- Arrangement of Soil Solids
- Soil Dynamics
- SECTION II - SOIL WATER: Soil Water Potential: Mechanistic View Point
- Soil Water Potential: Thermodynamic View Point
- Soil Water Potential: Practical View Point
- Evaluation and Measurement of Soil Water
- Fundamentals of Fluid Flow
- Saturated Flow
- Unsaturated Flow
- Infiltration
- Drainage
- Evaporation
- SECTION III - SOIL GASES: Soil Gases and Their Exchange
- Characterization of Soil Aeration
- SECTION IV - SOIL HEAT: Sources of Soil Heat
- Heat Transfer in Soil
- Characterization and Measurement of Soil Heat
- Modification of the Soil Temperature Regime
- SECTION V - COUPLED TRANSPORT PROCESSES: Water and Heat Transfer due to Thermal and Water Potential Gradients: Mechanistic Approach
- Water and Heat Transfer Due to Thermal and Water Potential Gradients: Thermodynamic Approach
- Salt Transport
- Appendix
- Index.
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