PERMEABILITY-CAPILLARY POTENTIAL CURVES FOR THREE PRAIRIE SOILS

Abstract
Apparatus for measuring unsaturated permeability of soils with disturbed structure is presented. The unsaturated flow curves show that for the same material the sorption curve has appreciably smaller permeabilities for the same capillary potential than does the desorption curve. The saturated permeability of soil shows a marked decrease with time. The maximum flow rates for nearly saturated soils were not so large as for the saturated soils.