Overview of Vertisols: Characteristics and Impacts on Society

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 57, Issue C, 1996, Pages 289-375

  Coulombe, Clement E ^a   Wilding, Larry P ^a   Dixon, Joe B ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956653194     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2113(08)60927-X     Document Type: Article

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