Soil Erosion by Water

Preface professional Soil erosion by water Objectives Chapter 1 Processes and Mechanics of Water Erosion summarizes the prevailing mechanical principles of processes related to soil erosion by water on hillslopes, such as infiltration, rainsplash detachment and transport, interrill detachment, particle transport, rill erosion, and sediment continuity. Chapter 2 Soil Conservation Measures merely enumerates soil conservation strategies and measures without explaining their effects and modes of action in details. Finally, Exercises aim to reflect and discuss which of the driving factors of soil erosion processes may be influenced by soil conservation measures, and which influence the various soil conservation measures will have on soil erosion processes. Demarcations Some specific topics in terms of soil erosion are explicitly not subject of this document:• Gully erosion, mass movements, and soil erosion by wind as specific types of soil erosion with very different processes,• The economic, social, and ecologic effects of soil erosion on goods, soil, plants, and creatures, waters, and landscape as a whole, • The variety of specific soil erosion research methods, and their suitablility to derive process-related equations, • The topics of erosion hazard assessment, and of erosion modelling. Literature listed in section Further Reading is recommended for further information on topics such as these. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Processes and Mechanics of Water Erosion Process Basics 100% October 12, 2018 Soil Hydrologic Basics 100% October 12, 2018 Rainsplash 100% October 15, 2018 Soil Detachment by Interrill Overland Flow 100% October 16, 2018 Transport of Soil Particles by Interrill Flow 100% October 16, 2018 Rill Erosion 100% October 19, 2018 Sediment Continuity 100% October 17, 2018 Further Reading 100% October 12, 2018 Chapter 2: Soil Conservation Measures Strategies 75% October 19, 2018 Techniques 100% October 19, 2018 Exercises Exercise A 100% October 19, 2018 Exercise B 100% October 19, 2018 Earth sciences S 75% Earth sciences Environmental sciences‏‎‏‎ 100% __NOTOC__