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Analysis shows effects of vegetation type and slope aspect on soil freezing, suggesting infiltration management can reduce flood risks.
Freezing of soil practically, if not completely, closes it to the infiltration of water and thus results in increased surface run-off. Any agency which tends to prevent soil freezing tends to keep the soil permeable during all or a greater portion of the year and thus decreases the frequency of high rates of surface run-off and consequent floods. The following article describes a study of soil freezing in which were compared the depths of freeze under different types of vegetation and also with different conditions of slope aspect.
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