1969 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Infiltration and Percolation
Author : E. M. Wilson, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.I.C.E.
Published in: Engineering Hydrology
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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When rain falls upon the ground it first of all wets the vegetation or the bare soil. When the surface cover is completely wet, subsequent rain must either penetrate the surface layers, if the surface is permeable, or run off the surface towards a stream channel if it is impermeable.