The water storage capacity of weathered bedrock is 4.7 times higher than that of soil, which should be taken into account in ecohydrological cycle observation and simulation studies. Prof.

He still couldn't see what was under the surface: the depth of the soil, the underlying weathered rock and the deep bedrock. He and geology graduate student Daniella Rempe have now proposed a ...

Weathered rock (light brown), an often thick layer of fractured rock underlying the thin veneer of soil (dark brown) and just above the impermeable bedrock (gray), can hold more water than soil ...

UW graduate student Russell Callahan inspects weathered bedrock exposed in a roadcut in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range in California, which is one of seven sites to be studied under a $5.33 ...