Interpretation of micromorphological features of soils and regoliths. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Georges Stoops, Vera Marcelino, Florias Mees.
• Other Names: Stoops, Georges; Marcelino, Vera; Mees, F (Florias)
• Contents: Preface Georges Stoops, Vera Marcelino & Florias Mees Chapter 1 Micromorphology as a tool in soil and regolith studies. Georges Stoops Chapter 2 Micromorphological features and their relation to processes and classification: general guidelines and keys. Georges Stoops, Vera Marcelino & Florias Mees Chapter 3 Colluvial and mass wasting deposits. Herman Mücher, Henk van Steijn & Frans Kwaad Chapter 4 Saprolites. Siti Zauyah, Carlos E.G.R. Schaefer & Felipe N.B. Simas Chapter 5 Pedoplasmation: formation of soil material. Georges Stoops & Carlos E.G.R. Schaefer Chapter 6 Frost action. Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë Chapter 7 Vertic features. Irina Kovda & Ahmet R. Mermut Chapter 8 Redoximorphic features. David L. Lindbo, Mark H. Stolt & Mike J. Vepraskas Chapter 9 Calcium carbonate features. Nicolas Durand, H. Curtis Monger & Matthew G. Canti Chapter 10 Gypsic features. Rosa M. Poch, Octavio Artieda, Juan Herrero & Marina Lebedeva-Verba Chapter 11 Textural pedofeatures and related horizons. Peter Kühn, José Aguilar & Rienk Miedema Chapter 12 Spodic materials. Michael A. Wilson & Dominique Righi Chapter 13 Regoliths and soils on volcanic ash. Sergey Sedov, Georges Stoops & Sergey Shoba Chapter 14 Oxic and related materials. Vera Marcelino, Georges Stoops & Carlos E.G.R. Schaefer Chapter 15 Lateritic and bauxitic materials. Georges Stoops & Vera Marcelino Chapter 16 Topsoils - mollic, takyric and yermic horizons. Maria Gerasimova & Marina Lebedeva Chapter 17 Soil organic matter. Mark H. Stolt & David L. Lindbo Chapter 18 Features related to faunal activity. Maja J. Kooistra & Mirjam M. Pulleman Chapter 19 Physical and biological surface crusts and seals. Marcello Pagliai & Georges Stoops Chapter 20 Salt minerals in saline soils and salt crusts. Florias Mees & Tatiana V. Tursina Chapter 21 Pedogenic and biogenic siliceous features. Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena & William R. Effland Chapter 22 Authigenic silicate minerals - sepiolite-palygorskite, zeolites and sodium silicates. Florias Mees Chapter 23 Phosphatic features. Panagiotis Karkanas & Paul Goldberg Chapter 24 Sulphidic and sulphuric materials. Florias Mees & Georges Stoops Chapter 25 Anthropogenic features. W. Paul Adderley, Clare A. Wilson, Ian A. Simpson & Donald A. Davidson Chapter 26 Archaeological materials. Richard I. Macphail & Paul Goldberg Chapter 27 Palaeosoils and relict soils. Nicolas Fedoroff, Marie-Agnès Courty & Zhengtang Guo
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (752 pages)
• Subjects: 631.43; Soil micromorphology; Regolith
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080932309; 0080932304
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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