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Assessment of Erosion Characteristics in Purple and Yellow Soils Using Simulated Rainfall Experiments

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  • Banglin Luo

    (College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Zhen Han

    (College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jing Yang

    (College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China)

  • Qing Wang

    (College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China)

Abstract

Soil erosion of sloped lands is one of the important sources of substantive sediments in watersheds. In order to investigate erosion characteristics of sloped lands during rainfall events in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, erosion processes of purple and yellow soils under different slope gradients and rainfall intensities were studied by using a rainfall simulator. The results showed that the sediment concentration in runoff was closely correlated with rainfall intensity. The sediment concentration in runoff gradually rose to a peak with time, and then gradually declined and approach a steady rate during simulation rainfall events. The particle size distribution of surface soils before the rainfall was different from that after the rainfall. Soil erosion mainly resulted in the loss of fine particles of surface soil through runoff, and the fine particles of soil were enriched in sediments. Soil erosion rates were gradually increased with the slope gradient when the slope gradient was less than 10°, and significantly increased when the slope gradient was more than 10°. The slope factor of yellow soil could be fitted well to that calculated by the formula of Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). The trend of the slope factor of purple soil was similar to that of the slope factor that was derived from USLE. Therefore, the effect of slope gradients on soil erosion need to be further researched when USLE was applied to predict erosion in purple soil area.

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  • Banglin Luo & Zhen Han & Jing Yang & Qing Wang, 2021. "Assessment of Erosion Characteristics in Purple and Yellow Soils Using Simulated Rainfall Experiments," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2021:i:1:p:357-:d:714203
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