Dating calcic soils under marginal climatic or lithologic conditions using a soil developmental index: an example from the Stockton Plateau, Terrell County, Texas

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-223

  Jolley, Darren M ^a,b   Grossman, Ethan L ^a   Tilford, Norman R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; PEDOGENESIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION;

STOCKTON PLATEAU; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032421746     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.iv.2.209     Document Type: Article

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