Evaluating the degree of weathering in landslide-prone soils in the humid tropics: The case of Limbe, SW Cameroon

Geoderma

Volumn 170, Issue , 2012, Pages 378-389

  Che, Vivian Bih ^a,b   Fontijn, Karen ^b,d   Ernst, Gerald G J ^b   Kervyn, Matthieu ^b,c   Elburg, Marlina ^b,e   Van Ranst, Eric ^b   Suh, Cheo Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Basalts; Cameroon; Mineralogy; Textural heterogeneities; Volcanic soil; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CAMEROON; CE CONCENTRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL DEVELOPMENT; HALLOYSITE; HUMID TROPICS; IN-SITU; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LAVA FLOWS; MASS BALANCE; MASS BALANCE MODEL; META-STABLE SOILS; MINERAL PHASIS; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; SLIP SURFACES; SMECTITES; SOIL PROFILES; TEXTURAL HETEROGENEITIES; VOLCANIC SOILS; WEATHERING INDICES;

ALUMINUM; BARIUM; BASALT; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CERIUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; LANDSLIDES; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANDIUM; SODIUM; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZIRCONIUM;

WEATHERING;

BARIUM; BASALT; BEDROCK; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COBALT; HALLOYSITE; HETEROGENEITY; HUMID TROPICS; KAOLINITE; LANDSLIDE; LAVA FLOW; MASS BALANCE; MICA; MOBILITY; NICKEL; SAPROLITE; SMECTITE; SOIL PROFILE; VOLCANIC SOIL; WEATHERING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CAMEROON; LIMBE; SUD OUEST PROVINCE;

EID: 84855179132     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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