The morphology and genesis of pseudogley phenomena in a Pleistocene loamy sand in the Netherlands.

Authors

  • M.F. Van Oosten
  • S. Slager
  • A.G. Jongmans

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18174/njas.v22i1.17232

Abstract

[183.64:141.791]In a loamy sand profile with deep watertable, developed in Pleistocene deposits and showing mottling patterns and fine-textured bands and tongues, four soil-forming processes were recognizable: illuviation of fine clay and iron oxides, biological activity, pseudogleying, and breakdown of the clay fraction at the upper side of the illuviation horizon. The genesis of this soil can be explained by assuming that soil formation started where frost wedges occurred in the profile during the late Pleistocene and proceeded further at these points than in other parts of the soil. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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Published

1974-02-01

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (1974)

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