Pedosphere 5(1): 11--20, 1995
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©1995 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
| Properties, formation and fertility of Vertisols in Fujian Province |
| ZHU He-Jian, TAN Bin-Hua, CHEN Jian-Fei, ZHENG Jian-Min and JIANG Yong-Fen |
| Research Centre of Natural Resources , Fajian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007 (China) |
| ABSTRACT |
| The zonal soils in the south subtropical zone of Fujian are lateritic red soils. A type of dark clayey soils, which was historically defined as lateritic red soils, derived from weathering products of the basalts was indicated by the investigation results to be markedly different from lateritic red soils and could be classified as Typical Hapluderts. They are distributed as complex zones with the lateritic red soils. The vertisols in this region were considered as a type of lithogenic soils and the vertic characteristics delay and inhibit the soils from allitic processes and then formed an independent soil type. The vertisols have higher fertility and better agricultural production characters than the lateritic red soils. The different ways in utilizing and managing these soils according to their properties and fertility are also suggested. |
| Key Words: fertility characteristics, soil formation, soil properties, vertisols |
| Citation: Zhu, H. J., Tan, B. H., Chen, J. F., Zheng, J. M. and Jiang, Y. F. 1995. Properties, formation and fertility of Vertisols in Fujian Province. Pedosphere. 5(1): 11-20. |
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