Plastic limits of agricultural soils as functions of soil texture and organic matter content

Soil Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-17

  Keller, Thomas ^a,b   Dexter, Anthony R ^c  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atterberg consistency limits; clay; liquid limit; pedo transfer function; plasticity index

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; CLAY CONTENT; CONSISTENCY LIMITS; LIQUID LIMITS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; PLASTIC LIMIT; PLASTICITY INDEX; PLASTICITY INDICES; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURES;

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLAY; LIQUIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLASTICITY; TEXTURES;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ATTERBERG LIMIT; CLAY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; PLASTICITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 84857830884     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR11174     Document Type: Article

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