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Shrink-swell cycles and crack dynamics in clay soils

6 steps

Start: Shrink-swell cycles and crack dynamics in clay soils
End: Shrink-swell cycles and crack dynamics in clay soils
Drying shrinks the soil, first as vertical subsidence then as cracks; total shrinkage is split between subsidence and crack volume by a geometry factor between 1 (vertical only) and 3 (isotropic)
and 3 more in this process

Aggregate formation and pore structure

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Shrink-swell cycles and crack dynamics in clay soils

Often found with

Soil water 4 Water 4 Smectite 3 Clay minerals 3 Pore space 3 Clay minerals 2 Sun 1 Wind 1 Water vapour 1 Rain and irrigation 1 Soil 1 Soil organic matter 1

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