PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION OF SELECTED VOLCANIC ASH SOILS FROM KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA

Authors :: Sadao Shoji
T. Ito
T. Takahashi
Chien-Lu Ping
Source :: Soil Science. 145:395-413
Publication Year :: 1988
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1988.
Abstract: We studied properties and classification of selected volcanic ash soils formed under different vegetations on Kenai Peninsula, southcentral Alaska. Spruce (Sitka spruce) and alder soils had well-developed eluvial and spodic horizons common to most Spodosols. Fescue soil, developed under fescue-liche

Subjects :: geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Geochemistry
Soil Science
biology.organism_classification
Eluvium
Alder
Podzol
Peninsula
Soil water
Geomorphology
Geology
Volcanic ash

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