Chapter 15 Scanning Electron Microscopy of Garnet from Southern Michigan Soils: Etching Rates and Inheritance of Pre-Glacial and Pre-Pedogenic Grain-Surface Textures

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 413-432

  Velbel, Michael A ^a   Mcguire, Jennifer T ^b   Madden, Andrew S ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

etch pits; garnet; glacial deposits; imbricate wedge marks; Michigan; regolith; soil; weathering rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349164442     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58015-5     Document Type: Review

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