Pedogenic and Biogenic Siliceous Features

Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regoliths

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 471-496

  Gutiérrez Castorena, Ma del Carmen ^a   Effland, William R ^b  

^a Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agrícolas ^*  (Mexico)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

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