Geochemistry and availability of barium (Ba) to plants grown in soils with ordinary and Ba-enriched mineralogy

• Main Author: Myrvang, Mona Bakke
• Other Authors: Gjengedal, Elin, Krogstad, Tore, Heim, Michael, Almås, Åsgeir R., Bleken, Marina A.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2016
• Subjects: Norway; Føre; Lillebukt; Nord-Norge; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2463185

In recent years there has been an increasing interest for the use of crushed minerals and rocks as soil amendment and slow-release fertilizers in agriculture. Apatite-biotite-carbonatite (short form: carbonatite) rock from the Lillebukt Alkaline Complex (LAC), located at Stjernøy, Northern Norway, c...