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Characterization and classification of gleysoils on the floodplain of the Solimões river (Iranduba and Manacapuru), Amazonas, Brazil

Sérgio Tavares Guimarães, Hedinaldo Narciso Lima, Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, Afrânio Ferreira Neves Junior, Francisco Weliton Rocha Silva, Rodrigo Santana Macedo, [...]

01/Apr/2013

The floodplains of the Solimões River are areas periodically flooded with predominance of Gleisols,where have lived a large number of small farmers of the region. The purpose of this study was to characterize and classify five profiles of Gleysoils distributed in three floodplain areas of the Middle Amazon basin, located in the municipalities of Manacapuru and Iranduba. After the morphological description, the soil horizons were sampled to perform physical, chemical and mineralogical analyses. Similarly, significant gleization was observed in all […]