Red soils with white net-like veins and their climate significance in south China

Geoderma

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 197-207

  Hong, Hanlie ^a   Gu, Yansheng ^a   Yin, Ke ^a   Zhang, Kexin ^a   Li, Zhaohui ^a,b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Laterite; Net like red soils; Weathering; White net like veins; Xuancheng

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FE OXIDE; FORMATION PROCESS; HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; IN-DEGREE; LATERITE; MATRIX; MATRIX MATERIALS; MINERAL AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS; POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPY; RED SOILS; SOUTH CHINA; WHITE NET-LIKE VEINS; WHITE SPOTS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY; XUANCHENG; YANGTZE RIVER;

CLAY MINERALS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; LITHOLOGY; MANGANESE OXIDE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MECHANICS; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SOILS;

ACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; IRON OXIDE; LATERITE; LITHOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PARTICLE SIZE; QUARTZ VEIN; RED SOIL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WEATHERING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ANHUI; CHINA; XUANCHENG; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 78649442430     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.09.019     Document Type: Article

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