Integrating soils and geomorphology in mountains - An example from the Front Range of Colorado

Geomorphology

Volumn 55, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 329-344

  Birkeland, P W ^a   Shroba, R R ^b   Burns, S F ^c   Price, A B ^d   Tonkin, P J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Front Range of Colorado; Geomorphology; Mountains; Soils

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDOGENESIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141975912     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00148-X     Document Type: Article

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