Environmental Soil Physics

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: CEE 428 or CEE 445. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Principles of soil physics with emphasis on environmental problems. Topics include characteristics of solid, liquid and gaseous components of soil; capillarity, air entrapment and the static distribution of water in the unsaturated zone; infiltration, exfiltration and the redistribution of water. Extension of principles to movement of organic liquids in subsurface.