COMPARISON OF WEATHERING RATES OF THE SOILS CLASSIFIED IN ALFISOL AND ENTISOL ORDER DEVELOPED ON LIMESTONE IN THE TAURUS MOUNTAINS AT EAST MEDITERRANEAN REGION
Hasan Huseyın OZAYTEKIN1 & Cıhan UZUN2
1Selçuk University Agricultural Faculty Department of Soil Science 42031 Konya, Turkey hhuseyin@selcuk.edu.tr
2Ministry of Food and Agriculture Konya, Turkey cihankonya@hotmail.com
Reading time:
|
words
Download PDF document
Downloads: 7381
Abstract
Entisols and Alfisols are derived from limestone under Mediterranean mountain climate conditions with a mesic temperature regime and a xeric moisture regime. These Entisols are weakly developed, as shown by their reduced thickness and their lack of diagnostic subsurface horizons, The aim of this research is to study and compare the pedogenic evolution of Alfisols and weakly developed Entisols using weathering indices as well as CIA, CIW, WIP, P, PIA, base/R2O3, and some geochemical rates together with other features such as the mineralogy and some analytical characteristics. Our results show that soils classified as Alfisol and Entisol have similar weathering indices and pedochemical activity. The major factors determining soil genesis in this area appear to be topographical rather than climatic and the nature of parent material affected by the leaching regime and weathering rates.
Keywords:
- Weathering
- rates
- pedogenic
- evolution
- geochemistry
- Alfisol
- Entisol
Disclaimer/Publisher’s Note: The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of CJEES and/or the editor(s). CJEES and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content.
© 2012 by the author(s). Licensee CJEES, Carpathian Association of Environment and Earth Sciences. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
How to cite
Hasan Huseyın OZAYTEKIN & Cıhan UZUN (2012). COMPARISON OF WEATHERING RATES OF THE SOILS CLASSIFIED IN ALFISOL AND ENTISOL ORDER DEVELOPED ON LIMESTONE IN THE TAURUS MOUNTAINS AT EAST MEDITERRANEAN REGION
Loading...
Checking for open citations...