Soil development on Late Quaternary river terraces in a high montane valley in Bhutan, Eastern Himalayas

Catena

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-59

  Dorji, Tshering ^a,e   Caspari, T ^b,c   Baumler R ^b,d   Veldkamp, A ^e   Jongmans, A ^e   Tshering, Kado ^a   Dorji, Tsheten ^a   Baillie, I ^a,f  

^a Ministry of Agriculture   (Bhutan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Cyclothem; Loess; Micromorphology; Pedogenesis; Soil chronosequence

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CYCLOTHEM; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PEDOGENESIS; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; SOIL MANAGEMENT; VALLEY;

ASIA; BHUTAN; BUMTHANG VALLEY; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 63749103261     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

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