Geochemical features of a soil chronosequence developed on basalt in Hainan Island, China

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-269

  Zhang, Gan Lin ^a   Pan, Ji Hua ^a   Huang, Cheng Min ^a,b   Gong, Zi Tong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basalt; China; Element migration; Hainan Island; Soil chronosequence; Soil geochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548139080     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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