Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-509-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-509-2015
Original research article
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10 Jul 2015
Original research article |  | 10 Jul 2015

Gully geometry: what are we measuring?

J. Casalí, R. Giménez, and M. A. Campo-Bescós

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Despite gullies having been intensively studied in the past decades, there is no general consensus on such basic aspects as the correct determination of the geometry (width and depth) of these erosion features. Therefore, a measurement protocol is proposed to characterize the geometry of a gully by its effective width and effective depth, which, together with its length, would permit the definition of the equivalent prismatic gully (EPG); this would facilitate the comparison between gullies.