Soils of Volcanic Regions in Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Introduction to Section I. European Volcanic Soil Resources....Pages 1-4
Volcanic Soil Resources in France....Pages 5-12
Soils of volcanic regions of Germany....Pages 13-23
Volcanic soil resources of Greece....Pages 25-28
Hungary and the Carpathian Basin....Pages 29-42
Icelandic volcanic soil resources....Pages 43-50
Italian volcanic soils....Pages 51-67
Soils of volcanic systems in Portugal....Pages 69-81
Soil of volcanic regions in Slovakia....Pages 83-100
Soils of volcanic systems in Spain....Pages 101-112
Front Matter....Pages N2-N2
Intergration and overview....Pages 113-118
A classification of tephra in volcanic soils. A tool for soil scientists....Pages 119-125
Soil descriptions....Pages 127-128
Micromorphology....Pages 129-140
Mineralogy of the sand fraction — results and problems....Pages 141-153
Extractability and FTIR-characteristics of poorly-ordered minerals in a collection of volcanic ash soils....Pages 155-180
Crystalline clay constituents of soils from European volcanic systems....Pages 181-195
Characteristics and genesis of volcanic soils from South Central Italy: Mt. Gauro (Phlegraean Fields, Campania) and Vico lake (Latium)....Pages 197-229
Classification of the Reference Pedons: World Reference Base for Soil Resources and Soil Taxonomy....Pages 231-249
Classification of the soils according to ‘Horizon Identification — the Reference Point System’....Pages 251-263
Front Matter....Pages N3-N3
Introduction: Chemistry of European volcanic soils....Pages 265-269
The physico-chemical data base....Pages 271-287
Elemental composition of Reference European Volcanic Soils....Pages 289-306
Chemical weathering of Reference European Volcanic Soils....Pages 307-323
Aluminium and iron fractionation of European volcanic soils by selective dissolution techniques....Pages 325-351
Phosphate sorption of European volcanic soils....Pages 353-367
Exchange complex properties of soils from a range of European volcanic areas....Pages 369-385
Multivariate statistical analysis of chemical properties of European volcanic soils....Pages 387-400
NaOH and Na-Na 4 P 2 O 7 -extractable organic matter in two allophanic volcanic ash soils of the Azores Islands — quantified pyrolysis-GC/MS data and factor analysis....Pages 401-410
Thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation of organic matter in two allophanic volcanic ash soils from the Azores Islands....Pages 411-422
Heavy metal sorption by andic and non-andic horizons from volcanic parent materials....Pages 423-435
Front Matter....Pages N4-N4
Application of Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS) to study European Volcanic Soils: a preliminary examination....Pages 437-452
Laser-diffraction grain-size analyses of reference profiles....Pages 453-468
Organo-mineral clay and physical properties in COST 622 European volcanic soils....Pages 469-491
A comparative analysis of the pore system in volcanic soils by means of water-retention measurements and image analysis....Pages 493-513
Physical properties in European volcanic soils: a synthesis and recent developments....Pages 515-537
Front Matter....Pages N5-N5
Introduction to Section V. European Volcanic Soils and Land Use....Pages 539-544
Landslide processes and Andosols: the case study of the Campania region, Italy....Pages 545-563
Effects of land use on soil degradation and restoration in the Canary Islands....Pages 565-579
Trace elements in polluted Italian volcanic soils....Pages 581-599
Front Matter....Pages N5-N5
Pesticide sorption of European volcanic soils....Pages 601-609
Eutrophication in the Azores Islands....Pages 611-621
Soils and Land Use of Santorini, Greece....Pages 623-628
Environmental features and land use of Etna (Sicily — Italy)....Pages 629-644