Palygorskite dominated vertisols of Southern Iran

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 137-150

  Heidari, A ^a   Mahmoodi, S ^a   Stoops, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chlorite; clay mineralogy; COLE; micromorphology; plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882470330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79134-8_8     Document Type: Chapter

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