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The soil erosion rate was studied on chernozemic soil samples with different densities in the flows with different contents of suspended sediments. It was shown that the soil loss was strongly reduced in the presence of suspended sediments. The reason was the silting up of interaggregate pores by sediments, which increased the forces of adhesion between aggregates and, hence, decreased the erodibility of the soil samples. An empirical equation was proposed to estimate the effect of suspended sediments on the erodibility of the soil.
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Original Russian Text © G.A. Larionov, N.G. Dobrovol’skaya, Z.P. Kiryukhina, L.F. Litvin, 2008, published in Pochvovedenie, 2008, No. 7, pp. 871–876.
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Larionov, G.A., Dobrovol’skaya, N.G., Kiryukhina, Z.P. et al. Effect of suspended sediments on soil erodibility. Eurasian Soil Sc. 41, 768–773 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229308070119
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