Weathering, soils & paleosols /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1992. |
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| Description: | xxi, 618 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Developments in earth surface processes 2 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1470335 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- A. Introduction
- 1. Reflections on soils and Paleosols
- B. Processes on and Near the Planetary Land Surface
- 2. Weathering systems
- 3. Extraterrestrial soils - the lunar experience
- 4. Incipient weathering: some new concepts on weathering, clay formation and organization
- 5. Alteration products at the earth's surface - the clay minerals
- 6. Diagenesis and metasomatism of weathering profiles, with emphasis on Precambrian paleosols
- C. The Present Land Surface of the Earth
- 7. Soils of Alpine mountains
- 8. Soils of cold climate regions
- 9. Organic soils
- Desert soils
- 11. Quaternary soil chronosequences in various environments - extremely arid to humid tropical
- 12. Weathering in humid regions, with emphasis on igneous rocks and their metamorphic equivalents
- D. Advanced Weathering Stages on Landscapes not Recently Affected by Tectonic or Glacial Activity
- 13. Calcrete
- 14. Silicretes
- 15. Diversity and terminology of lateritic profiles
- 16. Geochemistry and evolution of lateritic landscapes
- 17. Metallogeny of weathering: an introduction
- E. The Role of Paleosols in Interpreting Ancient Landscapes
- 18. Paleopedology: stratigraphic relationships and empirical models
- 19. Underclays and related paleosols associated with coals
- 20. Mesozoic and Tertiary paleosols
- 21. Paleozoic paleosols
- F. Classifications of Various Earth Materials
- 22. Classification of earth materials: a brief examination of examples
- References
- Index
- Subject Index
