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1 Soil water fundamentals

2 Contact angle the angle at which a liquid-vapor interface meets a solid surface

3 Contact angle Ranges from – minimum of 0  for water on clean smooth minerals – maximum of 180  for a completely water repellent surface – surfaces with contact angles > 90  are called hydrophobic Depends on – surface tension of the liquid – relative affinity of the surface for the liquid

4 http://ralph.swan.ac.uk/hydrophobicity/soil_hydrophobicity.htm

5 http://www.agcsa.com.au/static/atm_articles/html/4_6b.html Sand grains with and without organic coatings

6 Soil hydrophobicity can enhance overland flow particularly after wildfire as seen here in a burnt Eucalypt forest in Australia (photo: courtesy of Rob Ferguson) http://ralph.swan.ac.uk/hydrophobicity/soil_hydrophobicity.htm

7 Soil hydrophobicity can enhance preferential flow (as indicated by a tracer in this sandy soil), leading to accelerated contaminant transfer (photo: courtesy of L.W.Dekker) http://ralph.swan.ac.uk/hydrophobicity/soil_hydrophobicity.htm

8 “Localized dry spot” Hydrophobic zone created by excessive thatch and fairy ring mycelium. PHOTO BY ROB GOLEMBIEWSKI, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY. http://www.turfmagazine.com/print-7012.aspx Turf discoloration resulting from patches of hydrophobic soil on a golf course in Wisconsin http://bullseyegreensblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/pump-house-down.html

9 Does soil water repellency play a role in woody plant encroachment? Robinson, D.A., I. Lebron, R.J. Ryel, and S.B. Jones. 2010. Soil water repellency: A method of soil moisture sequestration in pinyon-juniper woodland. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 74:624-634.

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11 Capillarity the action which elevates or depresses the surface of a liquid where it is in contact with a solid (e.g. a capillary tube)

12 Fluid pressures in a capillary

13 Salinity crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia Reduction in water resources Reduction in agricultural land Damage to urban infrastructure Constraints and losses to industry Reduction in biodiversity Degradation of aesthetics of the landscape “When groundwater levels are close to the soil surface, capillary action carries salt upward to the plant root zone causing land to become saline. Streams and rivers become saline through salt being washed from the soil surface or where groundwater levels with high salt loads, begin to permanently intersect with the base of the stream or river.”

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