About this book
Soil micromorphology deals with the microscopic study of undisturbed soil and regolith samples, making use especially of thin sections and petrographic techniques. This book investigates the genetic interpretation of micromorphological features, covering not only the classic genetic soil horizons but also processes of soil material formation and weathering, and the results of human activities and regoliths in a wider sense.
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 M cher, 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-Lano
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 K hn, Jos 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 Guti rrez-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-Agn s Courty & Zhengtang Guo
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