Interpretation of micromorphological features of soils and regoliths
By: edited by Georges Stoops, Vera Marcelino, Florias Mees
Contributors: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9780444531568; 9780080932309
Subjects: Regolith; Soil micromorphology
Description: Soil micromorphology deals with the microscopic study of undisturbed soil and regolith samples, making use especially of thin sections and petrographic techniques. It exists as a discipline for almost 70 years. Micromorphology is used by pedologists, quaternary geologists, sedimentologists, and since two decennia intensively by archaeologists. This book provides the state of art in the field of genetic interpretation of micromorphological features, which is not restricted to the classic genetic soil horizons, but also covers processes of soil material formation and weathering, and the results of human activities and regoliths in a wider sense. State of art in the field of genetic interpretation of micromorphological features Over 2,600 different references Written by 46 leading experts in the field.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: Micromorphology as a tool in soil and regolith studies / Georges Stoops; title: Micromorphological features and their relation to processes and classification: general guidelines and keys / Georges Stoops, Vera Marcelino & Florias Mees; title: Colluvial and mass wasting deposits / Herman Mücher, Henk van Steijn & Frans Kwaad; title: Saprolites / Siti Zauyah, Carlos E.G.R. Schaefer & Felipe N.B. Simas; title: Pedoplasmation: formation of soil material / Georges Stoops & Carlos E.G.R. Schaefer; title: Frost action / Brigitte Van Vliet-Lano; title: Vertic features / Irina Kovda & Ahmet R. Mermut; title: Redoximorphic features / David L. Lindbo, Mark H. Stolt & Mike J. Vepraskas; title: Calcium carbonate features / Nicolas Durand, H. Curtis Monger & Matthew G. Canti; title: Gypsic features / Rosa M. Poch, Octavio Artieda, Juan Herrero & Marina Lebedeva-Verba; title: Textural pedofeatures and related horizons / Peter Kühn, José Aguilar & Rienk Miedema; title: Spodic materials / Michael A. Wilson & Dominique Righi; title: ^; title: Regoliths and soils on volcanic ash / Sergey Sedov, Georges Stoops & Sergey Shoba; title: Oxic and related materials / Vera Marcelino, Georges Stoops & Carlos E.G.R. Schaefer; title: Lateritic and bauxitic materials / Georges Stoops & Vera Marcelino; title: Topsoils : mollic, takyric and yermic horizons / Maria Gerasimova & Marina Lebedeva; title: Soil organic matter / Mark H. Stolt & David L. Lindbo; title: Features related to faunal activity / Maja J. Kooistra & Mirjam M. Pulleman; title: Physical and biological surface crusts and seals / Marcello Pagliai & Georges Stoops; title: Salt minerals in saline soils and salt crusts / Florias Mees & Tatiana V. Tursina; title: Pedogenic and biogenic siliceous features / Ma. del Carmen Gutǐrrez-Castorena & William R. Effland; title: Authigenic silicate minerals; title: sepiolite-palygorskite, zeolites and sodium silicates / Florias Mees; title: Phosphatic features / Panagiotis Karkanas & Paul Goldberg; title: Sulphidic and sulphuric materials / Florias Mees & Georges Stoops; title: ^; title: ^^; title: Anthropogenic features / W. Paul Adderley, Clare A. Wilson, Ian A. Simpson & Donald A. Davidson; title: Archaeological materials / Richard I. Macphail & Paul Goldberg; title: Palaeosoils and relict soils / Nicolas Fedoroff, Marie-Agn̈s Courty & Zhengtang Guo.; title: ^^