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Soil texture data may need revision to predict rangeland infiltration rates.

JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
APPLICABILITY OF THE GREEN AND AMPT INFILTRATION EQUATION TO RANGELANDS<sup>1</sup>
Micheline Devaurs, Gerald F. Gifford

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