ABSTRACT- Paddy soils make up the largest anthropogenic wetlands on earth. Present study was performed to investigate and compare soil formation of paddy soils with long-term rice cultivation history with non-paddy soils and study the effect of waterlogging on soil pedogenesis. Soil samples were taken from paddy and non-paddy soils derived from the same calcareous parent materials. Some pedogen...

Abstract In Europe, the First World War left a legacy on environment due to extensive and intense use of artillery during this period. This study examined small wooded area in Pas‐de‐Calais region France which was subject considerably less fire than previously studied WWI battlefields. process named “bombturbation,” significant physical changes have occurred landscape fire, resulting divergent ...

The genesis of soils with the second humus horizon (SHH)—the most striking relict feature in profiles soddy-podzolic (Retisols) and gray (forest) (Luvisols)—is discussed. Middle Holocene radiocarbon age SHH, its dark color, discrepancy properties modern horizons forest have specified main issues study SHH: character climate changes shifts boundaries natural zones reflection these evolution soil...

Mine tailings pose physical and chemical challenges for plant establishment. Our aim was to learn from natural processes in long-term soil ecosystem development use as novel parent materials pioneer ecological-engineering species ameliorate extreme conditions of tailings, facilitate the establishment subsequent native plants. A glasshouse trial conducted using magnetite containing various amend...

pedogenesis and clay mineralogy of soils and rock samples were studied in a transect of calcareous, gypsiferous, saline soils and sediments of bakhtegan lake bank in southern iran. the main objectives of study were to determine the occurrence of clay minerals and factors controlling their distribution pattern and relative abundance in soils and parent materials. the soil parent material is high...