Professional Documents
Culture Documents
æ Karissa Wilson
Department of Minerals and Petroleum, Western
Australian Government
• Role of DMP
• Mining Rehabilitation Fund
• Introduction to Black Diamond for Module 3
æ Best Student Project to be Incorporated into the
DMPs Official Mine Closure Plan for Black
Diamond
Polar nature of water
æ Uneven spatial distribution of charge
æ Leads to attraction of water to itself
æ Hydrogen bonding forces are strong
which gives waters peculiar properties
i.e. high enthalpy of evaporation, high
heat capacity etc
Forces acting on water in an air – water – soil mixture
æ Cohesion
• Attraction of water molecules to each other
æ Adhesion
• Attraction of water molecules for solid surfaces
At the water – air
interface water
molecules are weakly
attracted to air and
strongly attracted to
each other
Equation 1
Web tool
• http://www.soil-physics.ch/inhalt_en/seiten/exp1200/animation_1200.htm
Water content of soil
Abouthydrology.blogspot.com.au
Water Retention Functions
With m = 1-1/n
Kosugi, Dane and Hopmans
Drainage and Imbibition
æ Animation
• http://www.soil-physics.ch/inhalt_en/index.php?seite=1300#
Top View
Dry Soil
Wet Soil
Side View
# minutes
Fine
Loam
Coarse Sand
Fine
Loam
Coarse Sand
Fine
Loam
Coarse Sand
Fine
Loam
Fine
Loam
Coarse Sand
Fine
Loam
Coarse
Sand
Fine Loam
Coarse
Sand
Coarse
Sand
Loam
Coarse
Sand
Coarse Sand
Coarse Sand
Fine
Loam
Infiltration
Organic matter acting as a
capilliary barrier
Macropores function differently
depending upon where they are
Vertical Infiltration with spots where dye was applied
Water level