Describe soil porosity.

Describe soil porosity.

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- Amount of pore spaces in a soil sample.

Importance
Influence soil water retention. Clay has high retention and is water logged because it doesn’t allow drainage due to many tiny pore spaces while sand has poor water retention due to rapid percolation caused by large pore spaces.

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Kavungya answered the question on May 3, 2019 at 12:32

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