ALPINE SOILS OF NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND |
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| Authors: | J. C. C. ROMANS J. H. STEVENS L. ROBERTSON |
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| Affiliation: | The Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen |
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| Abstract: | Many features of the alpine soils of NE. Scotland are related to altitude. The deep contemporary humose A horizon has formed in Post-Boreal to recent times. Its formation was preceded by a phase of profile development characterized by very scanty A horizon development. This phase was interrupted by a stage of frost disturbance, probably equated with the Highland Re-advance. The earliest part of the pedogenetic cycle is represented only by cryogenic redistribution of the fine fraction, within the parent material column, which occurred between 12,000 and 28,000 B.P. |
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