Quantifying the effect of a freeze–thaw
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M. G. Ferrick; L. W. Gatto
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In this paper we quantitatively test the hypothesis that soil freeze–thaw (FT) processes significantly increase the potential for upland hillslope erosion during run‐off events that follow thaw. We selected a highly frost‐susceptible silt to obtain an upper bound on FT effects, and comp