Modelling soil landscape genesis - A "time split" approach for hummocky agricultural landscapes

Geoderma

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 480-493

  Sommer, M ^a,b   Gerke, H H ^a   Deumlich, D ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discontinuous pedogenesis; Hummocky ground moraine; Soil landscape modelling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; HOLOCENE; INTENSE (CO); LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT; SOIL DEVELOPMENT;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; HOLOCENE; MAPPING; MODELING; PEDOGENESIS; SEDIMENTATION; SILICATE; SOIL EROSION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPSOIL;

EID: 45449083429     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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