Green-tuff landslide areas are beneficial for rice nutrition in Japan

Japanese Islands are covered with weathered volcanic rocks and soils. Terraced rice field are located in green-tuff areas which are very fertile but where landslides occur associated to strong earthquakes. The Xray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence analyses of the soils in landslide area identified...

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Main Author: Kazue Tazaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2006-12-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652006000400010