Surface crusts on soils/sediments of the southern Aral Sea basin, Uzbekistan

Geoderma

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 152-159

  Mees, Florias ^a   Singer, Arieh ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bloedite; Hexahydrite; Kainite; Soil crust; Solonchak; Takyric crust

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPORATION; FLOODS; LAKES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

BLOEDITES; HEXAHYDRITES; KAINITES; SOIL CRUSTS; SOLONCHAK; TAKYRIC CRUSTS;

SOILS;

CRUST; DUST; EVAPORATION; GYPSUM; SALINIZATION; SEDIMENT; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL TEXTURE; SOLONCHAK;

ARAL SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; UZBEKISTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 33750941623     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2006.03.019     Document Type: Article

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