This is more likely to occur on bare soil, with low infiltration capacity.

As runoff flows downslope, it may flow onto ground with higher infiltration capacity (such as beneath vegetation) and become run-on.

Rainsplash washes elements downslope and reduces infiltration capacity by dispersing clay particles into the large interstices of the soil.

Hence the infiltration capacity of the soil and the water availability in the soil is reduced, whereas the surface-water-logging or runoff is increased.

This residual water moisture affects the soil's infiltration capacity.

During the next rainfall event, the infiltration capacity will cause the soil to be saturated at a different rate.

Robert E. Horton (1875-1945), founder of modern hydrology and concepts such as infiltration capacity and overland flow.

The maximum rate that water can enter a soil in a given condition is the infiltration capacity.

In contrast, its infiltration capacity is generally not sufficient to reinfiltrate runoff produced by heavy spring and summer storms.

The pounding of the infiltrometer into the ground deforms the soil causing cracks and increasing the measured infiltration capacity.