Soil development on a Pleistocene terrace sequence, Boise Valley, Idaho

Northwest Science

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 318-329

  Othberg, Kurt L ^a   McDaniel, Paul A ^a   Fosberg, Maynard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DURIPAN; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL MORPHOLOGY; TERRACE SEQUENCE;

USA, IADAHO, BOISE VALLEY;

EID: 0031437722     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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