Stony soil: Lithic Leptosol
Antonio Jordán
University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
Stony soil developed from schists and slates, under shrubs (Calicotome villosa) in Sierra Morena (SW, Spain). Stony soils are frequent in Mediterranean soils. According to Poesen and Lavee (1994, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0341-8162(94)90050-7) abundant rock fragments characterize more than 60% of soils from the Mediterranean area. Just in the Iberian Peninsula, for example, very large rock fragment contents between 41% and 90% have been reported.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Antonio Jordán (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
3.2 MB
Width
2496 px
Height
1664 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 350D DIGITAL
Exposure
25 mm f/11 1/250 s ISO 400
Taken
3 November 2014
Coordinates
37.8445, -6.0534
Tint
Light grayish reddish brown
Submitted
4 November 2014
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