Soil formation rates on silicate parent material in alpine environments: Different approaches-different results?

Geoderma

Volumn 213, Issue , 2014, Pages 320-333

  Egli, Markus ^a   Dahms, Dennis ^b   Norton, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpine regions; Chronosequence; Soil formation; Soil residence time; Steady state

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; CHRONOSEQUENCES; RESIDENCE TIME; SOIL FORMATIONS; STEADY STATE;

CLIMATOLOGY; DIGITAL STORAGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; SILICATES; SOILS;

WEATHERING;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHRONOSEQUENCE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDOGENESIS; RESIDENCE TIME; SILICATE; SNOWPACK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER RANGE; WYOMING;

EID: 84884138597     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.016     Document Type: Review

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