Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regoliths

Edited by

Georges Stoops, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Vera Marcelino, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Florias Mees, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

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.

Audience
postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of pedogenesis, soil classification, quaternary geology, sedimentology and archaeology.

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Hardbound, 752 Pages

Published: August 2010

Imprint: Elsevier

ISBN: 978-0-444-53156-8

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

Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regoliths

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