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Anthropogenic Soils

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Anthropogenic Soils 

soils originating as a result of human activity. They may be created deliberately, as in the cases of gardening soils, potting soils, and hothouse soils, or inadvertently, as in the case of the soils on the terraces of mines. Some writers also consider greatly improved soils (for example, in irrigated or drained lands) to be anthropogenic.
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2002) showed that carbonised materials, such as biochars, are responsible for maintaining high levels of soil organic matter (SOM) and available nutrients in anthropogenic soils such as Amazonian Dark Earth (or Terra Preta).
Microscopic characterisation of synthetic Terra Preta by Chia, Chee Hung; Munroe, Paul; Joseph, Stephen; Lin, Yun / Australian Journal of Soil Research
On top, a grey sandy layer of medium-coarse sand supposed to have been deposited on top of the anthropogenic soils after the Norse farm had been abandoned.
'The Farm Beneath the Sand'--an archaeological case study on ancient ... by Hebsgaard, Martin B.; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Arneborg, Jette; Heyn, Patricia; Allentoft, Morten E.; / Antiquity
Total and partial analyses of stream sediments and alluvial and anthropogenic soils were performed using standardized methods of analyses or the approach published in Sutherland (2002).
Abandoned Smolnik mine (Slovakia)--a catchment area affected by ... by Lintnerova, Otilia; Sottnik, Peter; Soltes, Stanislav / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
 
 
 
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