Soil particle size fractionation with centrifugation method

Abstract

Abstract: According to the rotor size of Mandal RC5C and Stoks' law,a segregation procedure for soil particle size fractionation was designed,and used for the particle separation of Huangmian soil(Calcaric cambisols,FAO),Huihe soil(Haplic greyxems,FAO),and Helu soil(Calcic kastanozems,FAO) in the Loess Plateau of China,and of Orthic Brown Chernozem,and Orthic Black Chernozem in Canadian Prairie.The fractionation results of the 5 soils by using this procedure were in line with those of the standard pipette method.

Key words: Soil particle size fractionation, Loess Plateau, Canadian Prairie

CLC Number:

S153.6

WU Tianyun, Jeff J. Schoenau, LI Fengmin, QIAN Peiyuan, WANG Fang, Sukhadev S. Malhi . Soil particle size fractionation with centrifugation method[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2004, (3): 477-481.

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