The purpose of this paper is to review the development and the state of the art in desiccation
cracking characterization methods and review the desiccation cracking behaviors of soils …

Several decades of intensive dry land farming in the Gadarif region, located in the Eastern
part of Sudan, has led to rapid land use/land cover (LULC) changes mainly due to …

Vertisols constitute one of the unique soil orders, with distinct characteristics including self-
mulching, swelling and shrinking, cracking, and pothole formation; and excessive surface …

The possibility of using the elemental compositions of species as a tool to identify
species/genotype niche remains to be tested at a global scale. We investigated relationships …

Background Land degradation reduces agricultural productivity and poses a serious threat
on food security status of households. In Ethiopia, farmers have been using only urea and di …

An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the
atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below. It acts as an anchor for …

While food and nutrition security are issues that national and international organizations are
tackling, one of the central problems often overlooked is the essential role of soils in …

Vertisols are cracking clayey soils that (i) usually form in alluvial lowlands where, normally,
groundwater pools into aquifers;(ii) have different types of voids (due to cracking), which …

Vertisols and vertic soils are known in a wide range of bioclimatic environments. The aim of
this research was to identify possible vertic features in ultra-continental climate with gelic soil …

Abstract The Maastrichtian dinosaur-bearing Chorrillo Formation in southern Patagonia (⁓
50° S, Austral-Magallanes Basin, Argentina) is a pedogenically modified fluvial succession …