Abstract
The most obvious and naive model of soil particles is of glass marbles piled in a jar, rigid, rounded and regularly sized particles which have a regular series of pores permeating the mass. The geometry of sphere packing (Figure 8.1) shows that as the spherical particles get smaller, the surface area of the system increases and the size of the interstitial spaces decreases. The total interstitial volume of such systems trend towards 20–25% of the total.
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Jeffrey, D.W. (1987). Soil matrix and soil water. In: Soil~Plant Relationships. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6076-6_8
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