Basalt weathering and pedogenesis across an environmental gradient in the southern Cascade Range, California, USA

Geoderma

Volumn 154, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 473-485

  Rasmussen, Craig ^a   Dahlgren, Randy A ^b   Southard, Randal J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basalt; Kaolin; Mineralogy; Pedogenesis; Smectite; Soil; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ALFISOLS; ANDISOLS; BASALT ROCKS; BASALT WEATHERING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA , USA; CHEMICAL INDEX OF ALTERATIONS; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; DRY CONDITION; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; ELEVATION GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HALLOYSITE; HIGH ELEVATION; HIGH-ELEVATION SNOW; LAND AREAS; LIGHT MICROSCOPY; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MINERALOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOIST CONDITIONS; OXYHYDROXIDES; PEDOGENIC PROCESS; SELECTIVE DISSOLUTION; SHORT RANGE ORDERS; SIERRA NEVADA; SMECTITE; SMECTITES; SNOWLINE; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; SOIL MINERALS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WEATHERING; ULTISOLS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ALUMINOSILICATES; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BASALT; CLAY; CLAY ALTERATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; EROSION; FORESTRY; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; LIGHT; MINERALOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

MINERALS;

ALFISOL; BASALT; ENTISOL; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; KAOLIN; PEDOGENESIS; SMECTITE; SNOWLINE; ULTISOL; WEATHERING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72549092040     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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