Quantifying soil and critical zone variability in a forested catchment through digital soil mapping

SOIL

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-64

  Holleran, M ^a,c   Levi, M ^b   Rasmussen, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DIGITAL MAPPING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938358963     PISSN: 21993971     EISSN: 2199398X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/soil-1-47-2015     Document Type: Article

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