Organo-mineral clay and physical properties in COST 622 European volcanic soils
Organo-mineral clay and physical properties in COST 622 European volcanic soils
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COST 622 欧洲火山土壤中的有机矿物粘土和物理特性
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-48711-1_34
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发表时间:
2007
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G. Burtin
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作者:
F. Bartoli;G. Burtin
The particle-size distribution is undoubtedly a basic soil characteristic as useful in soil classification as it is in agronomy. Nevertheless, it is now well documented (see, eg the reviews of Nanzyo et al. 1993, Mizota and van Reeuwijk 1993) that Andosols (WRB 2001) fail to disperse completely when submitted to the dispersion agents that are utilized with success with other soils (eg sodium hexametaphosphate which is the recommended dispersant agent following the ISO international standards of soil particle-size analysis). The fact that sodium hexametaphosphate is not completely effective in obtaining dispersion should be attributed to the strong affinity of this dispersing agent for allophane, leading to edge to edge flocculated aggregates. Also, clay dispersability decreases when wet volcanic ash soils are dried. This is due to irreversible structural and mechanical changes occurring during drying (eg Kubota 1972, Nanzyo et al. 1993). Therefore, the common laboratory determined particle-size analysis of allophanic Andosols shows a low to very low clay content as compared with field determination (Ping et al. 1989), and particle-size/mineralogy modifiers such as ashy, medial and hydrous, based on 1500 kPa water retention, are used to replace the names of particle-size classes for Andisols in Soil Taxonomy (ST 1999).The first aim of this study is therefore to adapt and develop the Na-resin method, without destruction of organic matter or/and poorly-ordered minerals, for obtaining most of the organo-mineral clay fraction. This Na-resin method was already recommended for strongly aggregated soils such as Oxisols and Andisols (Bartoli et al. 1991, Churchman et al. 1999). The second aim of this study is to relate amounts of organo-mineral clay to physical soil properties such as bulk density, capillary porosity obtained by capillary rise, and total volumetric shrinkage of wet undisturbed soil cores at the end of controlled 40 C drying kinetics. As a matter of fact,