Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols of India

Abstract

1. Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols: Overview and Introduction -- 2. New Criteria to Identify Argillans as Evidence of Clay Illuviation -- 3. Modifications of Plasmic Fabric in SAT Vertisols in a Climosequence: Evidence for Holocene Climate Changes -- 4. Micromorphological Criteria to Identify Calcium Carbonates of Pedogenic (PC) and Non-Pedogenic (NPC) Origin in SAT Soils and their Relevance to Pedogenesis and Management -- 5. Micromorphology to understand Landscape Evolutions and Pedogenic Response to Neotectonics and Holocene climatic changes: A Case from Soils of the Ganga Basin -- 6. Micromorphological Approach to Identify Polygenesis in Soils -- 7. Micromorphology of the Paleosols to Reconstruct Late Quaternary Paleoclimatic Record, Alluvial Cyclicity and Stratigraphy of the Ganga Basin -- 8. Micromorphology to Distinguish Diagenetic Overprinting and Paleopedogenic Features in Lithified Paleosols of the Himalayan Foreland Basin -- 9. Micromorphology of the Calcic Soils of the Thar desert: Implication for Climate Change and Origin of Palygorskite -- 10 Summary and Concluding remarks.