Clues to the genesis of a discontinuously distributed fragipan in the northern Apennines, Italy

Catena

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-169

  Certini, Giacomo ^a   C Ugolini, Fiorenzo ^a   Taina, Ioana ^b   Bolla, Giovanni ^a   Corti, Giuseppe ^c   Tescari, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Res Inst Soil Sci and Agrochem   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Fragipan; Radiocarbon dating; Soil genesis; Soil micromorphology

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; CHARCOAL; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DISCONTINUITY; EMPLACEMENT; EOLIAN PROCESS; FRAGIPAN; LAST GLACIAL; MASS MOVEMENT; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDOGENESIS; RADIOCARBON DATING;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY; VALLOMBROSA FOREST;

EID: 33846587981     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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