Mechanism of crust formation on a soil in central Iran

Plant and Soil

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-73

  Eghbal, Mostafa K ^a   Hajabbasi, Mohammad A ^a   Golsefidi, Hossein T ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Beta vulgaris; crust formation; infiltration; micromorphology; seedling emergence

Indexed keywords

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS;

INFILTRATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SOIL CRUST; SOIL MICROMORPHOLOGY; SUGAR BEET;

IRAN, ISFAHAN PROVINCE;

EID: 0029660897     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00015412     Document Type: Article

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