Effects of high-intensity forest fires on soil clay mineralogy

Physical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 407-422

  Reynard Callanan, Jennifer ^a   Pope, Gregory ^b   Gorring, Matthew ^b   Feng, Huan ^b  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Colorado; Forest fire; Illite; Pedogenesis

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; CLAY SOIL; FOREST FIRE; ILLITE; MINERALOGY; SMECTITE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650615741     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.31.5.407     Document Type: Article

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