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Can Soil Penetration Resistance and Bulk Density Be Determined in a Single Undisturbed Sample?

Carolina Fernandes, Roniram Pereira da Silva, Adolfo Valente Marcelo

01/May/2015

Soil quality indicators such as penetration resistance (PR) and bulk density (BD) are traditionally determined in a single undisturbed soil sample. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of PR measurements of undisturbed samples on the determination of BD in the same sample of two soils differing in clay contents. To this end, samples were collected from the 0.00-0.10 and 0.10-0.20 m layers of two soils of clayey and very clayey texture. Volumetric rings were used to […]