Fractals in Soil Science
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Fractals in Soil Science

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fractals in Soil Science

About this book

This book presents the state-of-the-art after fifteen years of exponentially growing applications of fractal geometry in soil science. It demonstrates the wide-ranging applicability of fractal models in soil science and indicates new opportunities to integrate processes in soils within or across scales using fractals. Contributed by some of the pioneers in the field, chapters represent a broad spectrum of applications from geochemistry to microbiology and from scales of micrometers to the landscape, and serve as an introduction to the subject.Topics include fractal aspects of soil structure, porosity and texture, scaling in preferential and hydraulic conductivity, anoxic volumes and adsorption in fractal models of soil, characterization of the pore surface irregularity, fractal properties of soil organic matter, fractal concepts in studies of soil fauna and mycelium in soils, and fractal analysis of spatial and temporal variability in soil properties and crop yields. A wide spectrum of methods for identifying and measuring fractal properties is introduced and critically discussed. Although the book focussed on solving problems in soil science, the applications and the fractal approach used share much in common with many other fields within and outside of the earth sciences. A unique bibliography on fractals in soils science is included.

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Yes, you can access Fractals in Soil Science by Y. Pachepsky,J.W. Crawford,W.J. Rawls in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Geology & Earth Sciences. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Fractals in Soil Science
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Integrating processes in soils using fractal models
  7. Chapter 2. Conventional and fractal geometry in soil science
  8. Chapter 3. Surface fractal characteristics of preferential flow patterns in field soils: evaluation and effect of image processing
  9. Chapter 4. Generalizing the fractal model of soil structure: the pore--solid fractal approach
  10. Chapter 5. Silty topsoil structure and its dynamics: the fractal approach
  11. Chapter 6. Simulation and testing of self-similar structures for soil particle-size distributions using iterated function systems
  12. Chapter 7. Scaling properties of saturated hydraulic conductivity in soil
  13. Chapter 8. Estimating soil mass fractal dimensions from water retention curves
  14. Chapter 9. Influence of humic acid on surface fractal dimension of kaolin: analysis of mercury porosimetry and water vapour adsorption data
  15. Chapter 10. Applications of light and X-ray scattering to characterize the fractal properties of soil organic matter
  16. Chapter 11. Fractal and the statistical analysis of spatial distributions of Fe--Mn concretions in soddy-podsolic soils
  17. Chapter 12. Fractal concepts in studies of soil fauna
  18. Chapter 13. Fractal analysis in studies of mycelium in soil
  19. Chapter 14. The distribution of anoxic volume in a fractal model of soil
  20. Chapter 15. Fractal analysis of spatial and temporal variability
  21. Chapter 16. Bibliography on applications of fractals in soil science