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DOI 10.1007/s12665-012-2006-3
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Title (Primary) Environmental significance of magnetic properties of Gley soils near Rosslau (Germany)
Author Jordanova, D.; Jordanova, N.; Werban, U. ORCID logo
Source Titel Environmental Earth Sciences
Year 2013
Department MET
Volume 69
Issue 5
Page From 1719
Page To 1732
Language englisch
Keywords Soil; Magnetic susceptibility; Conductivity; Environmental magnetism; Pedotransfer functions
UFZ wide themes ru5
Abstract Geophysical methods are widely applied to soils for resolving different tasks in precision agriculture, pollution evaluation, erosion estimation, etc. Environmental magnetic methods were applied in our study on a collection of soil samples from area near Rosslau (Germany), which was gathered on the basis of a field electromagnetic induction study. Magnetic laboratory analyses include magnetic susceptibility, isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM), anhysteretic remanent magnetization (ARM), thermomagnetic analyses for determination of the kind of magnetic minerals present in soils. The results reveal the presence of statistically significant inverse correlations between magnetic susceptibility, as well as remanent magnetizations ARM and IRM, and conductivity values. This maybe ascribed to influence of topography and water regime on the iron oxide forms in soil and the influence of soil moisture on soil conductivity. Magnetic measurements on soil cores showed close correspondence between soil horizons outlined in 1 m-long cores, and depth changes in mass-specific magnetic susceptibility. Existing relationships between magnetic characteristics, soil reaction pH, and nutrients’ content (total nitrogen, carbon and sulphur) have been explored by cluster analysis and general regression model statistics. The results reveal the presence of significant correlations between nutrients’ content, magnetic susceptibility and the grain size sensitive ratio ARM/χ. These are expressed by numerical equations, representing pedotransfer functions, which predict the content of Nitrogen, Carbon and Sulphur through combination of magnetic parameters and soil pH. The obtained pedotransfer functions for the particular case of Gley soils and Fluvisols studied could be used for application of magnetic methods in agricultural practice as a fast and inexpensive proxy evaluation of the content of these nutrition elements.

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Jordanova, D., Jordanova, N., Werban, U. (2013):
Environmental significance of magnetic properties of Gley soils near Rosslau (Germany)
Environ. Earth Sci. 69 (5), 1719 - 1732 10.1007/s12665-012-2006-3