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Article: Data from J.L. Feng and colleagues advance knowledge in soil science.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Terra rossa was found overlying limestone on a planar erosion surface at approximately 5100 m on the summit of Amdo North Mountain on the Tibetan Plateau. The present study examined the quartz content, size distribution of the quartz grains, mineral composition, oxygen isotope ratios in the quartz, surface microtexture and crystal morphology of the quartz in the terra rossa and its potential source rocks to determine the derivation of the terra rossa."
"The results indicated that the component of the terra rossa on Amdo North Mountain is a mixture of weathering products from the underlying limestone, ...