A river terrace soil chronosequence of the Pakua tableland in central Taiwan

Soil Science

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 167-179

  Tsai, Heng ^a   Huang, Wen Shu ^a   Hseu, Zeng Yei ^b   Chen, Zueng Sang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Micromorphology; Pedogenesis; River terrace; Soil classification

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GAUGE; PEDOGENESIS; PEDON; PLATEAU; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER TERRACE; SOIL; SOIL CLASSIFICATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33747886914     PISSN: 0038075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ss.0000187376.76767.21     Document Type: Article

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