Soil phases
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Soil phases

by Antonio Jordán, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

Soils are constituted by three phases: solid phase (on average, 50% in volume and 83% in weight) , liquid phase (25% and 17%) and gas phase (25% and approximately 0%).
This diagram is redrawn from Dr. Carlos F. Dorronsoro's website (http://www.edafologia.net/index.htm).