• Soil physics is the study of soil's physical properties and processes. It is applied to management and prediction under natural and managed ecosystems...
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    Base for Soil Resources Soil biology Soil microbiology Soil chemistry Soil biochemistry Soil mineralogy Soil physics Pedotransfer function Soil mechanics...
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    Soil mechanics is a branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics...
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    tensiometer in soil science is a measuring instrument used to determine the matric water potential ( Ψ m {\displaystyle \Psi _{m}} ) (soil moisture tension)...
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    Vadose zone (redirect from Vadose soil)
    capillary fringe. Movement of water within the vadose zone is studied within soil physics and hydrology, particularly hydrogeology, and is of importance to agriculture...
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  • occurs in soils that are particularly vulnerable to erosion by water. In soil layers where clays are saturated with sodium ions ("sodic soils"), soil can break...
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  • Soil crusts are soil surface layers that are distinct from the rest of the bulk soil, often hardened with a platy surface. Depending on the manner of formation...
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  • A soil scientist is a contributor to soil science. Soil scientists include agrologists, pedologists and soil classifiers. The following is a list of notable...
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  • Darcy (unit) (category Soil physics)
    Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Elastography in Silico". Frontiers in Physics. 8: 637. arXiv:2012.03993. Bibcode:2021FrP.....8..637S. doi:10.3389/fphy...
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    agrophysics – history of the study of physics applied to agroecosystems History of soil physics – history of the study of soil physical properties and processes...
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  • 1979, Soil Physics, Cambridge University Press Soil Survey Division Staff (1993). "Examination and Description of Soils". Handbook 18. Soil survey manual...
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    Neutron probe (category Soil physics)
    neutron probe is a device used to measure the quantity of water present in soil. A typical neutron probe contains a pellet of americium-241 and beryllium...
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    Soil moisture sensors measure the volumetric water content in soil. Since the direct gravimetric measurement of free soil moisture requires removing,...
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    plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil. Soil consists...
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  • speeds. Other Agrophysics – the study of physics applied to agroecosystems Soil physics – the study of soil physical properties and processes. Cryogenics...
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    effective at controling soil pH when compared to core aeration.[citation needed] Saha, Arun Kumar (2004). Text book of soil physics (3 ed.). Ludhiana: Kalyani...
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  • Soil gases (soil atmosphere) are the gases found in the air space between soil components. The spaces between the solid soil particles, if they do not...
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  • Darcy's law (category Soil physics)
    negative sign is used in the definition of the flux following the standard physics convention that fluids flow from regions of high pressure to regions of...
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    content is the quantity of water contained in a material, such as soil (called soil moisture), rock, ceramics, crops, or wood. Water content is used in...
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  • Bulk density (category Soil physics)
    other "divided" solids, especially used in reference to mineral components (soil, gravel), chemical substances, pharmaceutical ingredients, foodstuff, or...
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  • Routing (hydrology) (category Soil physics)
    In hydrology, routing is a technique used to predict the changes in shape of a hydrograph as water moves through a river channel or a reservoir. In flood...
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  • an American soil scientist regarded as the founder of mathematical soil physics. His special interest was the flow of water through soils and drainage...
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    Edgar Buckingham (category American soil scientists)
    period. Buckingham's first work on soil physics is on soil aeration, particularly the loss of carbon dioxide from the soil and its subsequent replacement...
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    database on soil science. The Institute has been divided into six divisions, each taking care of an independent area of activity. Soil physics division oversees...
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  • Bound water (category Soil physics)
    increases. Adsorption Capillary action Effective porosity Surface tension W.A. Jury & R. Horton, 'Soil Physics', Wiley; 6th edition (2004) ISBN 0-471-05965-X...
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    Groundwater recharge (category Soil physics)
    methods to estimate recharge rates are: chloride mass balance (CMB); soil physics methods; environmental and isotopic tracers; groundwater-level fluctuation...
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    Infiltration (hydrology) (category Soil physics)
    by which water on the ground surface enters the soil. It is commonly used in both hydrology and soil sciences. The infiltration capacity is defined as...
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    Hall (also known as the Horticulture and Agricultural Physics and Soil Science Building and the Soils Building) was built in 1893 and 1896 on the campus...
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    components, variously defined among scientific disciplines: Soil physics characterizes water in soil in terms of tension, Physiology of plants and animals characterizes...
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  • Stress distribution in soil is a function of the type of soil, the relative rigidity of the soil and the footing, and the depth of foundation at level...
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