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Effects Of Freeze-Thaw Cycling On Soil Erosion

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Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling

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Landscapes evolve as a result of the interactions of topography, climate, hydrology, vegetation conditions, rock-weathering processes, soil conditions, sediment transport and deposition processes, and land use. An integral part of understanding and modeling that evolution must be a knowledge of the spatial and temporal dynamics in soil erodibility and runoff erosivity and how these dynamics affect the mechanics of soil erosion.

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Gatto, L.W., Halvorson, J.J., McCool, D.K., Palazzo, A.J. (2001). Effects Of Freeze-Thaw Cycling On Soil Erosion. In: Harmon, R.S., Doe, W.W. (eds) Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0575-4_3

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