Lecture 7: Soils and Infiltrationgeology.wwu.edu/rjmitch/L7_soils_infiltration.pdfLecture 7: Soils...
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Lecture 7: Soils and Infiltration
Key Questions1. What is a soil?
2. How are soil types classified?
3. What is infiltration?
4. What quantities control infiltration rate?
5. What is soil storage
6. What is soil porosity
7. What is capillarity?
rain drop infiltrating into soil
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Soil type and thickness affect runoff and streamflow
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Soil is an unconsolidated aggregate of mineral and rock fragments ranging in size from clay, silt, sand, to gravel. Some soils (near surface) also contain organic matter.
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Soil type (or classification) is determined by fragment (clast) size and distribution of clast sizes.
RELATIVE SIZES
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Soil classification can get more descriptive, but for hydrology purposes we use clast size.
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USDA Soil Texture Classification
relative size
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Figure 1.‐Location of Whatcom County In Washington.
Soil Survey ofWhatcom County Area, WashingtonBy Alan Goldin, Ph.D., Soil Conservation Service Washington State Department of Natural Resources United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service
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Digital soil data (for ArcGIS) is available from the following data base.
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Soil Coverage (USDA)
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Infiltration is the movement of water INTO the soil surface
infiltration
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percolation
Percolation is the movement of water WITHIN the soil matrix.
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percolation
Percolation rate controls the infiltration rate
infiltration
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ponding and runoff
When the rainfall rate exceeds the infiltration rate, surface ponding and runoff occurs
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Open the link below and read about infiltration
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wet silt
moist sand
dry sand
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water is flowing in fast
nothing happening
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water is coming out
water flowing in slowly
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nothing came out
nothing came out
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nothing came out
soil storage
surface runoff
groundwater recharge
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Infiltration (and runoff) is controlled by soil type, thickness, original water content, and precipitation characteristics
infiltration
runoff
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Moist soils produce more runoff than dry soils
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sandy soils allow water to infiltrate silt and clay soils have slow infiltration rates, hence more surface runoff
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USDA Soil Texture Classification
clays have extremely low infiltration rates (high runoff)
silts have low infiltration ratessands have high infiltration rates
The degree of infiltration and runoff depends on the soil type
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Rainfall characteristics determine the amount of infiltration versus runoff
light rain – more infiltration heavy rain – more runoff
infiltrationrunoff
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Soil storage is the amount of water the soil can hold. It is controlled by the soil type, thickness, and porosity.
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Porosity is a measure of void space in a soil
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total volume of dry soil
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water volume
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saturate soil
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volume of voids
saturated soil
water loss
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volume of voids
saturated soil total volume
porosity =total volume
volume of voids
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porosity ≈ 40% porosity ≈ 25%
uniform grain sizes mixture of grain sizes
Grain-size distribution controls the magnitude of porosity
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nothing came out
soil water storage
surface runoff
groundwater recharge
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After water has drained by gravity, some water is held between the pore spaces by tension (capillary forces)
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water is polar
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The polar nature of water causes it to adhere to solid surfaces and bond to other water molecules (cohesion)
read about adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension
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The tension or capillary forces are created by “molecular” forces of attraction between the sand – water – air and are the same forces that bind sand together in the sculpture below
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Open the link below and read about water properties and capillarity
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Soils with smaller clasts have greater water holding capacity (stronger capillary forces)
sand
clay
silt
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watershed
Q = stream discharge
Q
Time
HydrographQ
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sandy soils silt and clay soils
Q
Time
Hydrograph
Q
Time
Hydrograph
attenuated response rapid “ high peak” response
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Impervious surfaces in urban settings don’t allow any infiltration, hence very rapid surface runoff
Q
Time
Hydrograph
very rapid “high peak” response
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Water flows to both sides and across Squalicum Parkway near the intersection with Roeder Avenue on Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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Frozen soils don’t allow any infiltration, hence very rapid surface runoff
Q
Time
Hydrograph
very rapid “high peak” response
The frost line is 4 to 6 feet in Minnesota
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http://www.ndsu.edu/fargo_geology/fldphotos2010.htm
Fargo North Dakota: March 13, 2010
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thick, dry soils can store a lot of rain, hence produce less runoff (if they are dry to begin with)
Q
Time
Hydrograph
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thin soils saturate quicker, hence produce more runoff
Q
Time
Hydrograph
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soils near saturation produce more runoff
Q
Time
Hydrograph
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water can flow through the soils toward a stream
Q
Time
Hydrograph