Soil Erosion by Water/Sediment Continuity

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Sediment Continuity

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Overall net erosion along a hillslope as function of downslope distance   may be calculated by solving a

steady state sediment continuity equation (Nearing et al., 1989)[1]:

    (1.31)

whereby interrill erosion  is considered to be independent of  . Rill erosion  is positive for detachment (eqn 1.26, cf. section → Rill Erosion) and negative for deposition (eqn 1.28).

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Bibliography

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  1. Nearing, M., Foster, G., Lane, L., and Finkner, S. (1989). A process-based soil erosion model for usda-water erosion prediction project technology. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 32(5):1587–1593.