Genesis and characterization of manganiferous soils in the Eastern Piedmont, USA

Geoderma

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 84-94

  Bourgault, Rebecca R ^a   Rabenhorst, Martin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Iron oxides; Manganese oxides; Marbles; Micromorphology; Pedogenesis; Residuum

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; BULK SOILS; DARK COLORS; FE OXIDE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRA; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH POROSITY; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MN OXIDES; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PEDOGENESIS; RESIDUUM; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MATERIALS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IRON ORES; IRON OXIDES; LANDFORMS; MANGANESE; MARBLE; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SILICATES; SPECTROSCOPY; TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SOILS;

DISSOLUTION; IRON OXIDE; MANGANESE OXIDE; MARBLE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PEDOGENESIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SAMPLING; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051676504     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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