ABSTRACT Soil surveys often contain multi-component map units comprising two or more soil classes, whose spatial distribution within the map unit is not represented. Digital Soil Mapping tools supported by information from soil surveys make it possible to predict where these classes are located. The aim of this study was to develop a methodology to increase the detail of conventional soil maps by means of spatial disaggregation of multi-component map units and to predict the spatial location of the derived […]

ABSTRACT: Traditional method of soil survey is expensive, slow, and must be carried out by experienced researchers. Thus, advances in soil observation technologies and the need to obtain information quickly by modern techniques have intensified the use of proximal sensing. This study characterized surface reflectance spectra (A horizon) and related them to traditional soil classification, based on morphological, physical, and chemical properties of representative pedogenetic profiles, developed in two toposequences of the Distrito Federal, Brazil. In the toposequences, 15 soil […]

Detailed studies of pedologic characterization, as well as of relationships between pedology, geology and geomorphology are important for the comprehension of the soil distribution in a landscape. The objective of this study was to evaluate the pedomorphogeological relationships in the Chapadas Elevadas of the Distrito Federal, by the chemical, physical, mineralogical and geochemical characterization of the soils found in this landscape compartment. Two representative top-sequences of the pedologic distribution were selected in this geomorphologic unit, whose soils were formed from […]

Soil and geomorphic surfaces were studied on a sandstone/basalt hillslope segment, commonly found in the Jaboticabal region (NW São Paulo State). Main objectives were to relate the geomorphic surfaces with chemical, physical and mineralogical properties of Oxisols and to apply geostatistic methods as a helping tool for their automatic location. Soils were sampled at depths of 0.6 to 0.8 m (upper B-horizons) in a 1,700 m long transect at regular 25 m intervals, amounting to 109 sampling sites. Soil samples were analyzed for particle […]

On the landscape of the Eastern Plateau, north of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, there are ferricretes in different elevations. Although these features are relatively frequent over the cretaceous sandstone (Adamantina Formation, Bauru Group), little investigation has been carried out on their genesis. A morphological study at different levels of observation was conducted in order to elucidate the genesis of ferricretes (plinthite and petroplinthite), occurring at the toeslope of a landscape where soils with argillic horizon predominate, at the […]

A slope with a soil sequence over sandy Perm-Carboniferous sediments from the Itararé Formation with clayey oxidic soils was studied. This area is representative of the low hills with smooth relief of the low valley from the Piracicaba river. The area is located in the Piracicaba municipality about 22o 47’S & 47o 35’W within São Paulo State Peripheral Depression. The sequence comprises a clayey Dark-Red Latosol (Rhodudox), on the hill top transitioning downwards to a Dark-Red Latosolic-Podzolic Intergrade (Rhodic Kandiudox). […]

A study on the genesis of Humic Oxisols and its relationships with the evolution of the landscape was carried out in an area of 5,750 ha in the central segment of the South of Minas Gerais Brazil. Two morphopedological systems (SMI and SMII), representative of the regional geology and geomorphology were chosen. Pedological (chemical, physical, morphological, micromorphological) and geomorphological studies, as well as soil charcoal quantification and radiocarbon tating were performed in four profiles classified as: Humic Xantic Hapludox and […]