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A non-intrusive survey method was developed that examined the relationships among spatial and temporal variations of soil water content, soil texture, and bulk electrical conductivity (EC[suba]) in a 7.5 ha research watershed in southwestern Tennessee. Our goal was to identify areas that may exhibit rapid movement of subsurface moisture, as this is a precursor of offsite agrochemical migration. The survey protocol identified similar and dissimilar temporal variations in EC[suba] patterns. Repeated spatial measurements of EC[suba], starting at near field capacity and then progressing through the draining and drying process, supplied visually shifting EC[suba] patterns that correspond to dynamic soil moisture variations and subsurface morphology transitions. We noted that spatial EC[suba] patterns for a field remained somewhat analogous across data gathering events, shifting in relative amplitude along with seasonal moisture levels. For this study, we considered soil morphology constant over the short data acquisition interval, with short-term subsurface moisture variations as the parameter primarily influencing EC[suba] changes. We inferred soil morphology as the major factor for EC[suba] pattern similarity across time. Follow-up soil coring analysis along two separate low-to-high EC[suba] transects supported this assumption for this site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]