USGS: Science Topics: soil chemistry

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Soil chemistry

Branch of chemistry concerned with the elements and compounds that make up soils. Includes chemical processes involving soils.

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Bedrock and soil geochemistry from Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota [More info]: Maps and text (Word or PDF format) and database (Excel or HTML format) for bedrock, forest floor, and mineral soil sampling in Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota to establish the background and baseline geochemistry and terrestrial mercury sources.
Biochar for soil fertility and natural carbon sequestration [More info]: Explains what biochar is and how it is formed, its potential use in both fertilizer and carbon sequestration, and some of the research questions remaining to be addressed before we can utilize it fully in practical ways.
Acid rain effects on Adirondack streams - results from the 2003-05 western Adirondack stream survey (the WASS Project) [More info]: Acidified soils caused toxic aluminum in 66 percent of 565 assessed streams. Diatoms and aquatic macroinvertebrates were moderately to severely affected. These effects have not improved in areas surveyed in the early 1980s
Multielement geochemical dataset of surficial materials for the northern Great Basin [More info]: This report presents geochemical data generated during mineral and environmental assessments for the Bureau of Land Management in northern Nevada, northeastern California, southeastern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho, along with metadata and maps.

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