Articles | Volume 2, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-211-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-211-2016
Original research article
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19 May 2016
Original research article |  | 19 May 2016

Synchrotron microtomographic quantification of geometrical soil pore characteristics affected by compaction

Ranjith P. Udawatta, Clark J. Gantzer, Stephen H. Anderson, and Shmuel Assouline

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Soil compaction degrades soil structure and affects water, heat, and gas exchange as well as root penetration and crop production. The objective of this study was to use X-ray computed microtomography (CMT) techniques to compare differences in geometrical soil pore parameters as influenced by compaction of two different aggregate size classes.