Classifying soils at the ultimate stage of weathering in the tropics

• Main Authors: Padmanabhan, Eswaran, Eswaran, Hari, Mermut, Ahmet
• Format: Citation Index Journal
• Published: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 2011
• Subjects: QE Geology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/6752/1/JPNS_Classification.pdf; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1522-2624; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/6752/

Oxisols cover ≈ 23% of the land surface in the tropics and are utilized extensively for agricultural purposes in the tropical countries. Under the variable input types of agricultural systems practiced locally, some of these soils still appear to have problems in terms of proper soil classificatio...