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The mineralogy of some soils from Central Italy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Abstract
A set of seven soils representative of types of considerable pedological importance in the Umbrian region of Italy have been examined by petrological and clay mineralogical methods in order to supplement previous data upon field and chemical characteristics (Lippi-Boncambi, 1950). Some basic data upon colour, locality of the sample examined, parent material, rainfall (P), temperature (T), rain factor (P/T—see Lang, 1915) and pH are summarised in Table 1. It will be noted that (a) the soils form an interesting colour group ranging from red through intermediate colours to yellow and then through brown to black, (b) all except one are derived from calcareous rocks, and (c) all except one are neutral to alkaline in reaction.
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