Characterization of products of the early stages of pedogenesis in ornithogenic soil from Maritime Antarctica

• Published in: European Journal of Soil Science
• Main Authors: Poggere, G. C., Melo, V. F., Francelino, M. R., Schaefer, C. E., Simas, F. N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Guano; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12307; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fejss.12307; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/ejss.12307/fullpdf

Summary Limited pedogenesis on the Antarctic continent results in unusual, but important, short‐range order inorganic phases and organo‐mineral complexes (both with broad peaks from X‐ray diffraction) in the clay fraction, which can be studied by sequential chemical extractions. We aimed to develop...