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Soil Erosion: Sabac & Saldaña
Soil Erosion: Sabac & Saldaña
SOIL EROSION|
Sabac & Saldaña
OBJECTIVES
To be able to understand the definition
of Soil Formation and Soil Erosion.
SOIL EROSION
SOIL EROSION PROCESS
THREE - STEP P R OCESS
SOIL EROSION
SOIL FORMATION
Soil formation, or the
development of soils that are
natural bodies, includes two
broad processes.
First is the formation of a parent
material from which the soil evolves
and, second, the evolution of soil
layers,
Approximately 99 percent of the world's
soils develop in mineral parent material
that was or is derived from the
weathering of bedrock.
SOIL FORMATION
SOIL EROSION
Soil erosion is a
naturally occurring
process that affects all
landforms.
In agriculture, soil erosion refers to the
wearing away of a field's topsoil by the
natural physical forces of water and wind
or through forces associated with
farming activities such as tillage.
SOIL EROSION
WATER EROSION
The breakdown of solid rock into
smaller particles and its removal
by water.
WIND EROSION
The term wind erosion refers to
the damage of land as a result of
wind removing soil from an area.
SOIL EROSION
WATER EROSION
Definition | Types | Factors | Predicting Water
Erosion Rates
SOIL EROSION
DEFINITION
Water Erosion
Water erosion is the detachment and removal of soil material by water. The
process may be natural or accelerated by human activity. The rate of erosion
may be very slow to very rapid, depending on the soil, the local landscape,
and weather conditions.
Several types of water erosion have been identified: raindrop (splash),
sheet, rill, and gully or channel.
TYPES
Water Erosion
SOIL SCIENCE
FACTORS
Water Erosion
Where; A is the computed soil loss per unit area as tons per
acre, R is the rainfall factor, K is the soil-erodibility factor, L is the
slope-length
The influence offactor, S is the
topography is slope-gradient factor, C is the
cropping
associated management
with the slope of thefactor,
land. and P is the erosion-control
practice factor. The equation is designed to predict water
erosion rates on agricultural land surfaces, exclusive of erosion
resulting from the formation of large gullies.
R Rainfall Factor
K Soil-erodibility Factor
L Slope-length Factor
S Slope-gradient Factor
Cropping
C Management Factor
Erosion-control Practice
P Factor