CONTENTS:-
Preface.
I. Preliminaries:
1. Soil physical measurement for land evaluation/K.J. Coughlan and N.J. McKenzie.
2. Field sampling/N.J. McKenzie and H.P. Cresswell.
II. Pore space and water retention:
3. Bulk density and pore space relations/H.P. Cresswell and G.J. Hamilton.
4. The soil water characteristic/H.P. Cresswell. 5. Water repellence/D.J. Carter.
III. Hydraulic conductivity:
6. Selecting a method for hydraulic conductivity/N.J. McKenzie and H.P. Cresswell.
7. The Twin-Ring Method for measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity and sorptivity in the field/F.J. Cook.
8. Field measurement of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity using tension infiltrometers/N.J. McKenzie, H.P. Cresswell and T.W. Green.
9. Field measurement of saturated hydraulic conductivity using the Well Permeameter/D.H. Mackenzie.
10. Laboratory measurement of hydraulic conductivity/N.J. McKenzie and H.P. Cresswell.
11. Using rainfall simulators to derive soil hydraulic parameters/R.D. Connolly, D.M. Silburn, S.G. Glanville and B.J. Bridge.
IV. Water table depth:
12. Watertable depth and Piezometers/Z. Paydar and D.P. Richardson.
V. Dispersion, aggregation and particle size analysis:
13. Emerson Dispersion Test/W.W. Emerson.
14. Clay dispersion/P. Rengasamy.
15. Measurement of size distributions of dry soil aggregates/J. Leys, W. Semple, M. Raupach, P. Findlater and G.J. Hamilton.
16. Non-dispersed particle size analysis/C.J. Rosewell.
17. Particle size analysis/G.M. Bowman and J. Hutka.
VI. Soil shrinkage and Atterberg limits:
18. Soil shrinkage/D. McGarry.
19. Liquid and plastic limits/J.M. Kirby.
VII. Soil strength:
20. Measurement of soil strength using Penetrometers/C.T. Hignett.
21. Modulus of rupture/H.R. Cochrane and L.A.G. Aylmore.
VIII. Pedotransfer functions:
22. Estimating soil physical properties using more readily available data/N.J. McKenzie and H.P. Cresswell.
IX. Applications:
23. Estimation of drainage flux below the root zone in the B Horizon of a Red Dermosol/H.P. Cresswell.
24. Integrating biophysical modelling and soil physical properties for quantitative land evaluation/M. Littleboy.
25. Soil water balance of three temperate pasture systems in Southern Australia/H.P. Cresswell, W.J. Bond, R.J. Simpson, Z. Paydar, S.G. Clark, A.D. Moore, D.J. Alcock, J.R. Donnelly, M. Freer, B.A. Keating, N.I. Huth and V.O. Snow.
26. Particle size and dispersion measurements in urban erosion risk assessment/J.D.M. Marsh.
27. Assessing site suitability for an effluent-irrigated plantation/W.J. Bond.
28. Estimation of the RUSLE Soil Erodibility Factor/C.J. Rosewell and R.J. Loch.
29. Estimation of the self-mulching characteristics of surface soils/C.D. Grant and K.J. Coughlan.