Relationships between magnetic parameters, chemical composition and clay minerals of topsoils near Coimbra, central Portugal

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2545-2555

  Lourenco A M ^a   Rocha, F ^b   Gomes, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ILLITE; KAOLINITE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINERALOGY; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SMECTITE; TOPSOIL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

COIMBRA [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84865271217     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-12-2545-2012     Document Type: Article

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