PEDOLOGICAL AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICA NCE OF GYPSUM OCCURRENCE INVERTISOLS IN WESTERN MALEKULA ISLAND (VANUATU)

Authors
PODWOJEWSKI P
Citation
P. Podwojewski, PEDOLOGICAL AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICA NCE OF GYPSUM OCCURRENCE INVERTISOLS IN WESTERN MALEKULA ISLAND (VANUATU), Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2, Mecanique, physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre, 319(1), 1994, pp. 111-117
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2, Mecanique, physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre → ACNP
ISSN journal
07644450
Volume
319
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Part
2
Pages
111 - 117
Database
ISI
SICI code
0764-4450(1994)319:1<111:PAPSNO>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The presence of smectite-rich vertisols on the western coast of Maleku la Island (Vanuatu) attest to the presence of a dry and contrasted cli mate during the later Quaternary period. The neoformation of gypsum in these vertisols occurred during the drier and windier period of the l ast glaciation.