TABLE 1.
Pore classes (m3/m3) derived from the fits of the van Genuchten (1980) equation to the water retention curves shown in Figure 4, assuming a maximum diameter of micropores of 30 µm (i.e. ψ mic/mes = −100 cm; note that macroporosity is assumed zero in both treatments)
Treatment | Textural | Structural | Total | ||||||
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ϕ t(mic) | ϕ t(mes) | ϕ t | ϕ s(mic) | ϕ s(mes) | ϕ s | ϕ mic | ϕ mes | ϕ mat | |
A | 0.295 | 0.005 | 0.3 | 0.120 | 0.168 | 0.288 | 0.415 | 0.173 | 0.588 |
D | 0.118 | 0.147 | 0.265 | 0.413 | 0.152 | 0.565 |