Genesis of Soils from Bauxite in Southeastern Brazil: Resilication as a Soil-Forming Process

Genesis of Soils from Bauxite in Southeastern Brazil: Resilication as a Soil-Forming Process

ABSTRACT Pedological studies using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), optical microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) showed a Xanthic Ferralsol formed from the degradation of bauxite on a slope in the Caparaó region, in southeastern Brazil. We found a decrease in the...

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Main Authors: Ana Carolina Campos Mateus, Fábio Soares de Oliveira, Angélica Fortes Drummond Chicarino Varajão, Caroline Cibele Vieira Soares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2017-11-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
Subjects:
pedogenesis
Ferralsol
kaolinite
micromorphology
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