Soil evolution over the Quaternary period in a semiarid climate (Segre river terraces, northeast Spain)

Catena

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 165-174

  Badía, David ^a   Martí, Clara ^a   Palacio, Elena ^a   Sancho, Carlos ^a   Poch, Rosa M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Cinca Segre confluence; Micromorphology; Pendents; Soil chronosequence; Soil classification

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PEDOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SEGRE RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 62249176214     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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