Published online 12 March 2007
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 71:529-536 (2007)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2006.0254
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Field Measurement of Soil Surface Chemical Transport Properties for Comparison of Management Zones
J.L. Heitmana,*,
A. Gaurb,
R. Hortonc,
D. B. Jaynesd and
T. C. Kaspard
a Agronomy Dep., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011
b International Water Management Inst., c/o ICRISAT, Patancheru, AP 502 324 India
c Agronomy Dep., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011
d National Soil Tilth Research Lab., Ames, IA 50011

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Fig. 2. Soil surface conditions for no-till (A) with and (B) without residue and for chisel plow (C) with and (D) without residue.
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Fig. 3. Examples of the Jaynes et al. (1995) approach for determining chemical transport parameters (R = relative resident concentration and t* = scaled time).
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Fig. 4. Example breakthrough curves for the no-till nontrafficked transect. Dots represent measurements and lines represent fitted values.
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Fig. 5. Example breakthrough curves for the no-till trafficked transect. Dots represent measurements and lines represent fitted values.
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Fig. 6. Example breakthrough curves for the chisel plow nontrafficked transect. Dots represent measurements and lines represent fitted values.
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Fig. 7. Example breakthrough curves for the chisel plow trafficked transect. Dots represent measurements and lines represent fitted values.
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