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A preliminary investigation into the occurrence of different kinds of carbonates in certain soils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

F. Hardy
F. Hardy
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, Cambridge.
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1. A sample of marine silt taken from the foreshore of the N.W. coastal belt of the Wash was found as the result of a mineralogical examination to contain dolomite in its mineral assemblage.

2. It was surmised from this discovery that should dolomite be a normal constituent of soils derived from marine silts, its presence might modify in them certain processes such as nitrification in which the neutralising effect of a quick acting base is an essential factor.

3. This supposition was strengthened by certain culture experiments on nitrification, and was to some extent established as a fact by a detailed chemical investigation into the nature of the carbonate content of several soils of known geological and agricultural history.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1921 , pp. 1 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1921

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page 2 note 1 Amos, Arthur, “A Method for the Determination of Carbonates in Soils,” Journ. Agric. Sci. 1, 1905, p. 322.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 3 note 1 Hardy, F., “The Mineral Composition of the Modern Fenland Silt with special reference to Carbonate Minerals,” which will appear in Geol. Mag.Google Scholar

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