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Non-allophanic Andosols of Trindade Island, south Atlantic: a new soil order in Brazil

Ana Carolina Campos Mateus ORCID logo , Angélica Fortes Drummond Chicarino Varajão ORCID logo , Fábio Soares de Oliveira ORCID logo , Sabine Petit ORCID logo , Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer ORCID logo

16/Jul/2020

ABSTRACT The pedological studies carried out so far in Trindade Island (TI) have obtained patchy evidences of allophane, without detailed mineralogical and micromorphological studies to confirm the occurrence of Andosols in TI. Therefore, in this study, the mineralogical, micromorphological, physical and chemical characterization of four soil profiles from Vulcão do Paredão (P1) and Morro Vermelho formations (P2, P3, and P4) were carried on the latest volcanic events in Brazil from Trindade Island (TI) with the aim of to evaluate the […]

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