Genesis and characteristics of brown forest soils derived from Serpentine in Kyushu,Japan |
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| Authors: | Ichiro Kanno Yutaka Onikura Shizuoki Arimura Shoichi Tokudome |
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| Institution: | Kyushu Agr. Expt. Station, MAF. , Chikugo, Fukuoka Pref. , Japan |
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| Abstract: | One of the main objects of the present study is to determine what genetic soil types have been formed from ultra-basic rocks such as serpentine under humid, subtropical conditions. Red-Yellow soils, which are important zonal soils in Kyushu, have not been formed from serpentine, but Brown Forest soils have been formed, as will be described in the part 2 of this paper. This fact for the most part has been governed by the mineralogical and chemical peculiarities of serpentine. Therefore the part 1 of this paper deals with the mineralogical and chemical characteristics of serpentine as a parent rock from which Brown Forest soils have developed. |
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