Precipitation impacts on earthen architecture for better implementation of cultural resource management in the US Southwest

Heritage Science

Table 10 Estimated marginal means of wall degradation and moisture metrics for select treatments

Metric	Low-intensity, 1-event (3.9 cm at 1.0 cm h⁻¹)	High-intensity, 1-year (1.8 cm at 3.6 cm h⁻¹)	High-intensity, 25-year (4.2 cm at 8.5 cm h⁻¹)
Material loss (%)	0.60	0.51	3.34
Affected surface area (cm²)	900	912	4670
Cavity depth (cm)	3.83	5.51	8.25
Δθ volumetric water content (cm³ cm⁻³)	0.128	0.023	0.023