New in Geoderma: "From rock to soil: Saprock genesis and its legacy for subsoil structure and micro-aggregate formation during pedogenesis" by Michaela Aehnelt & Kai U. Totsche. https://t.co/lvjWQM5rNI
@UniJena
Beautiful plinthite in the tropical humid paddy field 🌾
1/ fluctuation of water table creates the irreversible pedogenic characteristic: plinthite.
detailed below 👇
New in Geoderma: "Simulating water dynamics related to pedogenesis across space and time: Implications for four-dimensional digital soil mapping" by PR Owens, M Mancini, EH Winzeler [...] Z Libohova. https://t.co/AqneOOwFEX
@UArkansas@uflabr@UTArlington@USDA_ARS@PNNLab
#notablepaper
Topographic Wetness Index as a Proxy for Soil Moisture in a #Hillslope Catena: Flow Algorithms and Map Generalization
✍ by Hans Edwin Winzeler and Phillip R. Owens, et al.
👉https://t.co/I7EIfBMdwO
#soil#moisture#water
A drained peat soil with andic and vitric properties that has lost half of the topsoil (45 cm) since installing drains at 90 cm. Gleyic properties and reducing conditions at 40 cm. Therefore this soil is classified as an Andic Gleysol. See full classifications in a comment below.
Featured article! Predicting the extent of andic soils across western Haleakalā, Maui https://t.co/FsMKRr9csC
#OpenAccess study by Hodges & Boettinger
@utahstate_ag
New features added in the soil profile plotter.
Now you can download a .kml with the profile.
https://t.co/pB0GkgoK3o
Can you share a profile you've described / liked?
Over 3,700 block diagrams (line drawings) from published soil surveys now available! Most relate soils 2 landscape positions. Search 2 ways: comprehensive spreadsheet or interactive map. Search the spreadsheet 4 specific key words, like series name. https://t.co/lUzTnKY8g9 #soil
Paddy soils from Quaternary volcanic deposits in the Yogyakarta Basin. Differences in texture affect the morphology. Plow pan and fragipan are found in sandy loam soil (photo on the left).
new #book 📚 Gregory J. Retallack (February 2022): Soil Grown Tall: The Epic Saga of Life from Earth.
This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology.
https://t.co/4xbIPB3RdC
A long time in the making, I am delighted to see this book finally published. Excellent contributions from @stu_rock @Zhou_Hu_@XPortellCanal @peth_lab @Mud_Maik Kravenchenko, Young, Heck, Vetterlein, Schluter, Munkholm, Vogel, Anderson and many others
XIV RCC GO/TO - 2nd day - Umbric Amphigeric Rhodic Pantoferric Ferralsol/Cambissolo Háplico Tb Distrófico típico. With typical Brazilian Savannah on metagabbro rock.
RCC is a fieldwork meeting to discuss and improve the Brazilian soil system.