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A contribution to the study of the infertility of the subsoil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

C. R. Van Der Merwe
Affiliation:
(Division of Chemistry, Pretoria.)

Extract

Although the infertility of the subsoil in humid, semi-arid and arid regions has received much attention from investigators in Europe and America, in South Africa, as far as the writer is aware, no such work has been done.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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