DYNAMICS OF WIND EROSION

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The steadily increasing amts. of erosive particles, the cumulative degree of abrasion, and the gradual decrease in surface roughness along the direction of the wind were found to be the main causes for the gradual increase in the rate of soil movement with distance away from the windward edge of eroding fields. The data indicate that there was a considerable amt. of sorting of the different sizes of soil particles by the wind, the coarser particles tending to remain nearer the windward edge, the finer tending to accumulate nearer the leeward. The causes for the variations in the rate of increase of soil flow on different soil types and the relationship between these variations and the strip-farming method of soil-drifting control have been presented.

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