. The nature and properties of soils; a college text of edaphology. Soils. KVA PORATI ON. J FE^oiJnSrt:^ Fig. 36.—Diagram illustrating the various ways by wMcli water may be lost from a soil. such conditions two considerations are important: (1) the loss of water that might otherwise be of use to plants; and (2) the erosion that usually occurs when much water escapes in this manner. Of the two, the latter is generally the more impor- tant. The amount of run-offl varies with the rainfall and its distribution, the slope, the character of the soil, and the vege- tative covering. In some regions l
. The nature and properties of soils; a college text of edaphology. Soils. KVA PORATI ON. J FE^oiJnSrt:^ Fig. 36.—Diagram illustrating the various ways by wMcli water may be lost from a soil. such conditions two considerations are important: (1) the loss of water that might otherwise be of use to plants; and (2) the erosion that usually occurs when much water escapes in this manner. Of the two, the latter is generally the more impor- tant. The amount of run-offl varies with the rainfall and its distribution, the slope, the character of the soil, and the vege- tative covering. In some regions loss by run-off may rise as high as 50 per cent, of the rainfall, while in arid sections it is of course very low, unless the rainfall is of the torrential type as in the arid Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lyon, T. L. (Thomas Lyttleton), 1869-1938; Buckman, Harry Oliver, 1883-. New York, Macmillan
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