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Some Observations on the Formation and Transformation of Iron Oxides

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Soil Colloids and Their Associations in Aggregates

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Iron oxides have long been recognised by different disciplinary groups to be important constituents of most soils. This group of minerals (which includes the oxy-hydroxides and the hydrous oxides) influences such diverse properties as, for example, fertility, structure, permeability, soil colour, and profile differentiation. They can exercise a role in microbial respiration, and they can act as a sink and/or source of potentially toxic heavy metal pollutants. These minerals seem to be examined and categorised by each new analytical tool developed, and new techniques are constantly being tried to describe more precisely the concentrations of the different phases present, their inter-relationships, their compositions, and variabilities.

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Taylor, R.M. (1990). Some Observations on the Formation and Transformation of Iron Oxides. In: De Boodt, M.F., Hayes, M.H.B., Herbillon, A., De Strooper, E.B.A., Tuck, J.J. (eds) Soil Colloids and Their Associations in Aggregates. NATO ASI Series, vol 214. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2611-1_4

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