Soil stratigraphy and plant-soil interactions on a Late Glacial-Holocene fluvial terrace sequence, Sierra Nevada National Park, northern Venezuelan Andes

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-60

  Mahaney, William C ^a   Dirszowsky, Randy W ^b   Milner, Michael W ^a   Harmsen, Rudolf ^c   Finkelstein, Sarah A ^d   Kalm, Volli ^e   Bezada, Maximilano ^f   Hancock, R G V ^d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f Universidad Pedagogica Experimental Libertador   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Late Pleistocene and Holocene soil stratigraphy and ecology; Plant soil relationships; Radiocarbon dating of near surface exposures; Soil stratigraphy in the Andes

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRACE;

ANDALUCIA; ANDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIERRA NEVADA NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 33847327512     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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