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Soil may be regarded as waterlogged when it is nearly saturated with water much of the time such that its air phase is restricted and anaerobic conditions prevail. In extreme cases of prolonged waterlogging, anaerobiosis occurs, the roots of mesophytes suffer, and the subsurface reducing atmosphere leads to such processes as denitrification ...
English: This is the standard form that soil scientists in the United States complete when describing a soil profile or pedon. Information recorded on the form includes the soil location, landscape, site position, vegetation, and soil morphology including horizons, texture, color, structure, redox features, and more.
Compiled by the library staff of the Soil Conservation Service from publications received in the United States Department of Agriculture Library Vols. 1-6, no. 2 issued by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service; - by the National Agricultural Library Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1937); title from cover
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A percolation test consists of digging one or more holes in the soil of the proposed leach field to a specified depth, presoaking the holes by maintaining a high water level in the holes, then running the test by filling the holes to a specific level and timing the drop of the water level as the water percolates into the surrounding soil.
Annex 4 is a soil description sheet. It is a separate document in the form of an excel file to fill in the surveyed field characteristics. Annex 5 provides a guidance for database set-up (not yet published). Annex 6 suggests colours in maps showing the RSGs.
SWAT (soil and water assessment tool) is a river basin scale model developed to quantify the impact of land management practices in large, complex watersheds. SWAT is a public domain software enabled model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Blackland Research & Extension Center in Temple, Texas , USA. [ 1 ]
The available volume for additional water in the soil depends on the porosity of the soil [7] and the rate at which previously infiltrated water can move away from the surface through the soil. The maximum rate at that water can enter soil in a given condition is the infiltration capacity.