|
Terra Fusca
''Terra fusca'' (black earth) is one of the two main soils of the Mediterranean region, the other being ''terra rossa Terra rossa (Italian for "red soil") is a well-drained, reddish, clayey to silty soil with neutral pH conditions and is typical of the Mediterranean region. The reddish color of terra rossa is the result of the preferential formation of hematite ...'' (red earth). ''Terra fusca'' is found mainly in forested areas and has limestone as a key ingredient. It is non-acidic as the limestone cancels any acidity. It is also referred to as Cromi-calceric cambisol. References Types of soil {{agri-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The Sea has played a central role in the history of Western civilization. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about , representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. The Mediterranean Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Rossa
Terra rossa (Italian for "red soil") is a well-drained, reddish, clayey to silty soil with neutral pH conditions and is typical of the Mediterranean region. The reddish color of terra rossa is the result of the preferential formation of hematite over goethite. This soil type typically occurs as a discontinuous layer that ranges from a few centimeters to several meters in thickness that covers limestone and dolomite bedrock in karst regions. The high internal drainage and neutral pH conditions of terra rossa are a result of the karstic nature of the underlying limestone and dolomite.Torrent, J., 2005. ''Mediterranean soils.'' In: Hillel, D. (Ed.), ''Encyclopaedia of Soils in the Environment,'' vol. 2. Elsevier Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 418–427.Merino, E., Banerjee, A. and Dworkin, S., 2006. ''Dust, terra rossa, replacement, and karst: serendipitous geodynamics in the critical zone.'' ''Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,'' 70(18), p. A416.Vingiani, S., Di Iorio, E., Colombo, C. an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
