Capillary PressureSaturation Relations for Saprolite
Scaling With and Without Correction for Column Height
E. Perfect*,a,
L. D. McKaya,
S. C. Cropperb,
S. G. Driesea,
G. Kammererc and
J. H. Daned
a Dep. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
b 1463 Oxford Place, Cookeville, TN 38506
c Institute for Hydraulics and Rural Water Management, BOKU, Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
d Dep. of Agronomy and Soils, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL 36849-5412

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Fig. 1. Pressure cell configurations for the airwater and Fluorinertwater experiments.
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Fig. 2. Measured capillary pressuresaturation data for the airwater experiment along with fitted and corrected Campbell (1974) relations.
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Fig. 3. Measured capillary pressuresaturation data for the Fluorinertwater experiment along with fitted and corrected Campbell (1974) relations.
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Fig. 4. Scaled volumetric water contents from the fitted and corrected airwater relations vs. volumetric water contents from the fitted Fluorinertwater relation.
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Fig. 5. Scaled volumetric water contents from the fitted and corrected airwater relations versus volumetric water contents from the corrected Fluorinertwater relation.
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