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A note on soil shrinkage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

E. A. Fisher
E. A. Fisher
Affiliation:
Department of Textile Industries, Leeds University.
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A recent paper by W. B. Haines on soil shrinkage is discussed and his explanation of residual shrinkage criticised in the light of earlier work by the writer on evaporation of water from soil. A modification of Haines' tentative explanation is suggested.

The experimental results of Haines nave rendered it possible to define more clearly than previous work allowed the significance of the critical moisture content and the divergence between the first sloping portions of the rate of evaporation curves and the corresponding portions of the vapour pressure curves.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1924 , pp. 126 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1924

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page 126 note 1 This Journal, 1923, 13, 296.Google Scholar

page 126 note 2 Ibid. 121; Roy. Soc. Proc. 1923, 103 A, 139, 664.Google Scholar

page 128 note 1 This Journal, loc. cit. 304.Google Scholar

page 128 note 2 Italics are the writer's.

page 128 note 3 Fisher, E. A., This Journal, loc. cit.Google Scholar; further details will be given in a later paper in this Journal.

page 128 note 4 The following paragraph was rewritten and considerably extended in collaboration with Mr W. B. Haines, to whom the writer is glad to express indebtedness for much helpful criticism.

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page 130 note 1 It is perhaps unfortunate that the writer should have used this term in view of its earlier use in another connection by Cameron, and Gallagher, (U.S. Dept. Agric., Bur. Soils, Bul. 50, 1908).Google Scholar As used by the writer it means merely the moisture content at which the rate of evaporation begins to fall off from constancy.

page 131 note 1 Soil Sci. 1921, 11, 409.Google Scholar

page 131 note 2 Roy. Soc. Proc., loc. cit.

page 132 note 1 Paragraph 1 of p. 129 of a former paper (This Journal, 1923, 13, 121–43)Google Scholar should be re-interpreted in the light of these considerations.