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Title: RESPONSE TO "COMMENTS ON 'SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF SOIL PENETRATION RESISTANCE AND WATER CONTENT WITH A COMBINED PENETROMETER -TDR MOISTURE PROBE' AND 'A DYNAMIC CONE PENETROMETER FOR MEASURING SOIL PENETRATION RESISTANCE'

Author
item Herrick, Jeffrey - Jeff

Submitted to: Soil Science Society of America Journal
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/28/2004
Publication Date: 5/6/2005
Citation: Herrick, J.E. 2005. Response to "Comments on 'Simulaneous Measurement of Soil Penetration Resistance and water Content with a Combined Penetrometer-TDR Moisture Probe' and 'A dynamic Cone Penetrometer for Measuring Soil Penetration Resistance.'" Soil Science Society of America Journal. 69:925-927.

Interpretive Summary: No interpretive summary required.

Technical Abstract: Concurrence that by accounting for momentum, the Eq. [8] may more accurately reflect the energy transmitted from the sliding hammer to the penetrometer described in Herrick and Jones (2002). We also agree that their new estimate of resistance (Eq.[9]) remains "an experimental measurement which does not give a unique soil property; rather it is a complex measure which depend on bothe the penetrometer and the soil condition (Minasny and McBratney, 2005).