Dating constituent formation in soils to determine rates of soil processes: A review

Geoderma

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 293-303

  Cornu, Sophie ^a,b   Montagne, David ^c   Vasconcelos, Paulo M ^b  

^a Centre d'Orléans   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UMR 1402 ECOSYS   (France)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Chronosequences; Isotopes; Organic matter; Oxides; Pedogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCES; FE OXIDE; HIGH-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; ISOTOPIC DATING; ISOTOPIC METHODS; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIHYDROXIDES; PEDOGENESIS; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; PEDOGENIC PROCESS; SOIL PROCESS; SUPERGENE; TRANSFORMATION FRONT; U-SERIES; WEATHERING PROFILES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBONATES; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; LASER ABLATION; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MINERALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES;

SOILS;

CARBONATE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DATING METHOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LASER METHOD; OXIDE; PEDOGENESIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 70349952145     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.08.006     Document Type: Review

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