The Ustic Isohumisol (Chernozem) distributed over the Chinese Loess Plateau: Modern soil or palaeosol?

Geoderma

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 344-358

  Huang, Chun Chang ^a,b   Pang, Jiangli ^a   Su, Hongxia ^c   Wang, Lijun ^a   Zhu, Yizhi ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c XI'AN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Holocene; Loess; Loess Plateau; Palaeosol; Soil classification

Indexed keywords

CHINA; HOLOCENE; LOESS; LOESS PLATEAU; PALAEOSOL; SOIL CLASSIFICATION;

CULTIVATION; DUST; EROSION; GROUNDWATER; LAND RECLAMATION; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MANURES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POLLUTION; WEATHERING;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ARIDITY; CHERNOZEM; HOLOCENE; LAND SURFACE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOSOL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; TOPSOIL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 64549131665     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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