Interpretation of pre-AD 472 Roman soils from physicochemical and mineralogical properties of buried tephric paleosols at Somma Vesuviana ruin, southwest Italy

Geoderma

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 243-251

  Inoue, Yudzuru ^a   Baasansuren, Jamsranjav ^b   Watanabe, Makiko ^c   Kamei, Hiroyuki ^d   Lowe, David J ^e  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ancient Rome; Andic soil materials; Buried paleosol; Geoarchaeology; Leucite; Mt. Vesuvius; Phosphorus; Pollena eruption; Pompeii eruption; Somma Vesuviana villa; Tephra

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT ROME; ANDIC SOIL MATERIALS; BURIED PALEOSOL; GEOARCHAEOLOGY; LEUCITE; MT. VESUVIUS; POLLENA ERUPTION; POMPEII ERUPTION; SOMMA VESUVIANA VILLA; TEPHRA;

ALKALINITY; CALCIUM; CLAY MINERALS; DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MINERALS; MINING; PHOSPHORUS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS;

COASTAL ZONES;

LEUCITE; MINERALOGY; PALEOSOL; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; TEPHRA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 68749116190     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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