Erodibility of road batters under simulated rainfall
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Rainfall simulation experiments on road batters in a forest catchment in New South Wales, Australia, demonstrated the limits of small scale erosion studies. Comparable erodibility studies were carried out on road surfaces, road batters constructed of soil, bedrock and unconsolidated materials and the forest surfaces. There was no significant difference in sediment loss between any type of site, nor was there any significant relationship between sediment loss and either slope, materials or vegetation cover. The difficulties in obtaining any relationships between sediment loss, slope, cover and material type have implications for the usefulness of models which attempt to predict soil losses, as well as for future experimental work of this type. Erodabilité des talus de route sous précipitations simulées Résumé Des expériences de simulation de précipitations sur des talus routiers d'un bassin hydrographique forestier de l'état de Nouvelle Galles du Sud en Australie ont démontré les limites de recherches sur l'érosion menées à petite échelle. Des essais comparables ont été réalisés sur des surfaces routières, sur des talus en terre, sur des roches en place et sur des matériaux non consolidés ainsi que sur des sols forestiers. Aucune différence significative de pertes sédimentaires n'a pu être observée quelles que soient la pente, la nature des matériaux ou la couverture végétale. Ces difficultés rencontrées pour établir des relations entre pertes sédimentaires, pente, couverture et type de matériaux ont de sérieuses implications quant à l'utilité de modèles destinés à prédire les pertes de sols, ainsi bien qu'en ce qui concerne de futurs travaux expérimentaux dans ce domaine.
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