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FREEZE/THAW EFFECTS ON RILL AND GULLY EROSION IN THE NORTHWESTERN WHEAT AND RANGE REGION
Hydrology of the Northwestern Wheat and Range Region (NWRR) of the Pacific Northwest USA is dominated by winter events. Fifty-five to sixty-five percent of the precipitation occurs from November through March, and formation of impermeable frost, intensified by excessive tillage and tillage pans, has long been a major factor in rill and gully formation in the region. Saturated zones can form above tillage pans, freeze solid, and significantly reduce infiltration. Frost heaved surface soils thaw and weaken with warming temperatures or rain. Under these conditions, runoff from rain or snowmelt or a combination of the two is inevitable, concentrating in rills and channels, and carrying with it the loosened soil. Slopes are frequently quite steep and there may be little deposition above the toe slope. Classical over-fall head-cut gullies are uncommon. Concentrated flow channels form because of collection of water from impervious areas such as conventionally tilled fall seeded small grains and bare grass seed fields. In some soils, gullies are created by seepage from saturated layers above permanent restrictive layers in the soil. Gullies can also result from terrace failures due to rodent burrows and low compaction at the time of construction. In naturally unconsolidated soil, rodent activity can lead to piping failures that remove large quantities of subsurface soil and can become gullies. Rill measurements on conventionally tilled fields in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho were used to determine coefficients for relationships between slope length and steepness and size of rills. This paper describes these studies and the results as well as analysis of long-term erosion and weather records from southeastern Washington.
作 者： D. K. MCCOOL J. D. WILLIAMS 作者单位： D. K. MCCOOL(Supervisory Agricultural Engineer, Land Management and Water Conservation Research, USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA, USA)J. D. WILLIAMS(Hydrologist, Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center, USDA-ARS, Pendleton, OR)
刊 名： 国际泥沙研究（英文版） SCI 英文刊名： INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEDIMENT RESEARCH 年，卷(期)： 2005 20(3) 分类号： P3 关键词： Erosion Slope length Slope steepness Topography Pacific Northwest Frozen soil Thawing soil【FREEZE/THAW EFFECTS ON RILL AND GULL】相关文章：
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