Soil-forming rates and processes on Quaternary moraines near Lago Buenos Aires, Argentina

Quaternary Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 293-307

  Douglass, Daniel C ^a   Bockheim, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Calcification; Clay accumulation; Eolian dust; Glacial geology; Melanization; Patagonia; Soil development; Soil erosion; Soil geomorphology

Indexed keywords

MORAINE; PEDOGENESIS; QUATERNARY;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33644591722     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.08.027     Document Type: Article

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