Environmental significance of mineral weathering and pedogenesis of loess on the southernmost Loess Plateau, China

Geoderma

Volumn 163, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 219-226

  Huang, Chuanqin ^a,b   Zhao, Wei ^a   Liu, Fan ^c   Tan, Wenfeng ^a,c   Koopal, Luuk K ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clay mineral; Mineral evolution; Pedogenesis; Regional climate; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ALKALINE SOILS; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; BROWN SOIL; CLIMATE CONDITION; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE; EOLIAN DEPOSITION; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LOESS PLATEAU; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MINERAL WEATHERING; MIXED LAYER; PEDOGENESIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SOIL MINERALS; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL PROPERTY;

ALKALINITY; BIOLOGY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; LEACHING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINERALOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SOILS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ILLITE; KAOLINITE; LEACHING; LOESS; LUVISOL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINERALOGY; PALEOSOL; PARTICLE SIZE; PEDOGENESIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROPERTY; TRANSFORMATION; VERMICULITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 79958045449     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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