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Article: Nitrate-N movement in a fine-textured vadose zone.
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
- Author:
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Nonpoint source nitrate contamination of groundwater from leaching of nitrate-N is a problem of growing concern in many cereal producing nations (5, 11, 12). The impact of- nitrate-N leachate on groundwater beneath irrigated crop land has been documented in Nebraska (3, 4, 7, 13).
Nitrate is known to be transported in soil water having low iron and aluminum content (17) and through soil columns at the same rate as conservative tracers such as bromide (14).
Alberts and Spomer (1) described nitrate leaching beneath nonirrigated, excessively fertilized [448 kg N/ha (400 lbs N/ac)] plots in the loess deposits
of western Iowa. In 1975 a peak of ...