Surface runoff

Surface runoff is the excess water that flows over land when the soil below it is flooded. This is a big part of the water cycle.^[1]^[2] This a prime cause for soil erosion and degradation of soil.

Surface Runoff Media

Surface runoff from a hillside after soil is saturated
Stormwater management using trees (animation)
Precipitation washing contaminates into local streams
Urban surface water runoff
Willow hedge strengthened with fascines for the limitation of runoff, north of France
Soil erosion by water on intensively-tilled farmland
View of runoff, transporting nonpoint source pollution, from a farm field in Iowa during a rain storm.Caption: "Topsoil as well as farm
Runoff holding ponds (Uplands neighborhood of North Bend, Washington)

References

↑ Robert E. Horton, The Horton Papers (1933)
↑ Beven, Keith. Robert E. Horton's perceptual model of infiltration processes. Hydrological Processes 18 (17) (2004). p. 3447–3460. doi:10.1002/hyp.5740.

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[1] Robert E. Horton, The Horton Papers (1933)

[2] Beven, Keith. Robert E. Horton's perceptual model of infiltration processes. Hydrological Processes 18 (17) (2004). p. 3447–3460. doi:10.1002/hyp.5740.

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