Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

The Influence Of Temperature On The Impedance To Water Flow Through Plants, Royal Duane Jensen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This era has been termed the atomic or space age. The greatest concern of most people seems to be centered around survival from the destruction and suffering that might be caused by atomic and nuclear weapons. However, along with this, the world is confronted with perhaps a greater disaster--a potential calamity seldom realized by most people, yet a problem which grows more serious in the world each year--a tragedy which would probably be worse than destruction from nuclear weapons. This encroaching catastrophe is starvation.

Even today the majority of the people in the world do not have enough food. Each …

An Application Of A Thermodynamic Flow Equation To Water Movement In Unsaturated Soil, Brennan Derry Soane

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The movement of water in soil presents many interesting problems to the research worker. It is also a subject which finds wide and important application in agriculture and several branches of engineering.

The object of this work was to examine the usefulness of a new equation of flow of water in unsaturated soil. If valid, this new approach may be able to eliminate some of the gaps in our present knowledge of the subject.

All soil lying above the capillary fringe of a water table is in the unsaturated state with respect to water. This means that in any macroscopic …

Preliminary Estimate Of The Underflow Across The South Dakota-Nebraska State Line In The Niobrara River And Ponca Creek Drainage Basins, E. C. Reed, C. F. Keech

Conservation and Survey Division

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the amount of ground water flowing across the South Dakota-Nebraska State line within the Niobrara River basin, including the Ponca Creek basin. The study was made at the request of the Niobrara River Compact Commission. The estimates fiven in the paper are preliminary and subject to revision.

The Freezing Point Of Water In Puddled And Unpuddled Soils At Different Soil Moisture Tension Values, Robert B. Campbell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A technique that will adequately describe the physical condition of water in the soil has long been desired by scientists. The method should include the effect of soluble materials on the osmotic pressure of the soil solution, and also the effect of surface force action between the soil and soil water.

Parker (8) demonstrated that the freezing point was reduced in the presence of finely divided material. This suggested the possibility of using the cryoscopic procedure to measure the physical condition of water soil. More recently, the introduction of Thermistors for accurate temperature measurement have made it desirable to investigate …

The Integration Of Water Use In Nebraska, G. E. Condra

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Land And Water Conservation Problems Of The Missouri River Basin, G. E. Condra

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Terminology Relating To The Occurrence, Behavior And Use Of Water In Nebraska, G. E. Condra

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Water Resources Of Nebraska

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Equilibria Between Bentonite And The Various Replacing Agents In Alcoholic And Water Solutions, Joel E. Fletcher

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Investigators in soils have long recognized the importance of the colloidal fraction of soil, and also the almost inseparable problem of replaceable bases. It is generally accepted that the replaceable base fraction of a colloid controls to a large degree the physical properties exhibited by it. Volumes of work have been written on the problem of controlling the reactions of this fraction and on studies of the properties exhibited by it when it is saturated with various cations. Each worker has proceeded in his own individual way or followed the example set by some previous worker with specific modifications.

Conservation Of Land And Water Resources Of Nebraska, G. E. Condra

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Water-Bearing Formations Of Nebraska, G. E. Condra, E. C. Reed

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Lincoln's Water Supply Problem

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Drainage Districts Of Southeastern Nebraska, Calvin Turner Moore

Conservation and Survey Division

Throughout certain parts of the United States the importance of drainage is receiving increased recognition each year. The scope of investigations and operations covers many localities that are affected with "springy" lands, swamps, shallow lakes, overflowed lands, and tide lands.

Bulletin No. 115 - The Movement Of Water In Irrigated Soils, J. A. Widtsoe, W. W. Mclaughlin

UAES Bulletins

This bulletin embodies a part of the data secured in the irrigation investigations of this Station. It aims to contribute something to our knowledge of the movement of water in irrigated soils . The science of irrigation can not well be built until the laws involved in the mutual relationships of waters, soils and crops are understood with fair accuracy. Much has been done by numerous investigators, during the last fifty years, to give a clearer comprehension of the movement of soil moisture; but the field experiments have dealt largely with saturated soils, and the laboratory experiments have seldom taken …