The cohesive soils of Brazilian coastal plain have subsurface horizon with a peculiar characteristic – when wet the consistency is friablet, but of hard, very hard or extremely hard consistency when dry. The objective of this study was to evaluate the mechanical characteristics of cohesive and non-cohesive horizons of a Yellow Latosol of coastal tableland based on shear parameters related with soil physical and chemical properties and moisture. The results showed that soil cohesion and shear strength increased substantially with […]

The objective of the present study was to make the physical and chemical characterization of soils developed on sediments of the Barreiras group, in southern Bahia, as well as soils formed from rocks of the crystalline basement, which were taken as reference. For this purpose, soil horizon samples from two representative toposequences of the Coastal Plain were selected and analyzed: (1) eutrophic argisolic Red Latosol, latosolic dystrophic Yellow Argisol, duric orthic Ferrocarbic Spodosol; (2) dystrophic abruptic Yellow Argisol, dystrophic typic […]