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Soil Colloids and Soil Organic Matter Associativity - the Basis of Soil Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

G. Vrdoljak  and
G. Sposito
G. Vrdoljak
Affiliation:
Electron Microscope Laboratory, 26 Giannini Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3330
G. Sposito
Affiliation:
Division of Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA94720-3110
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Abstract

In the hierarchical model of soil structure, the lowest scale of structure is the combination of clays < 0.2 um diameter to form 2 um domains. to investigate the basis for soil structure, two highly weathered soils from Brazil (Oxisols) were selected and the < 2 um size fraction extracted by sedimentation for analysis. The first soil used in this study, classified as Xanthic Hapludox, was collected in 1991 at an EMBRAPA research station outside of Manaus, Brazil from a tropical forest site collected from the 0-8 cm depth. The second soil (0-20 cm depth) was sampled from a topographically flat area inside the Brasilia National Park, Brasilia D.F. Brazil by Dr. Flavio Vasconcelos.

The samples were analyzed by NMR spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. NMR spectroscopy revealed the organic materials within this size fraction consisted predominantly of polysaccharides.

Type
Microscopy in the Real World: Natural Materials
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 7 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2001, Microscopy Society of America 59th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 35th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California August 5-9, 2001 , August 2001 , pp. 534 - 535
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2001

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