Relationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China

Abstract Classified as Regosols in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Taxonomy, purple soils formed from purple rocks and are mainly distributed in the Sichuan Basin of southwestern China. A number of studies have focused on the soil water, nutrients, texture and erosion of purple soils. Th...

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Autores principales:	Shouqin Zhong, Zhen Han, Jing Du, En Ci, Jiupai Ni, Deti Xie, Chaofu Wei
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c1b523eda1bd425eb8205048b23a2da22021-12-02T15:09:24ZRelationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China10.1038/s41598-019-49687-92045-2322https://doaj.org/article/c1b523eda1bd425eb8205048b23a2da22019-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49687-9https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Classified as Regosols in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Taxonomy, purple soils formed from purple rocks and are mainly distributed in the Sichuan Basin of southwestern China. A number of studies have focused on the soil water, nutrients, texture and erosion of purple soils. This study was conducted to understand the lithological features of the related purple rocks and their effects on the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin. The results showed the following: due to variability in the paleoenvironment, purple rocks mainly consist of sandstone and mudstone with various stratal thicknesses and various particle sizes. The lithology of the purple rocks leads the purple soils have an obvious inheritance from their parent rocks. An apparent purple color and numerous rock fragments derived from the purple parent rock are observed throughout the profile, with no clear soil stratification. The particle size contents of the purple soils are closely related to those of their parent rocks. The clay-sized fractions in the purple soils are generally dominated by illite, vermiculite, chlorite, and montmorillonite with little quartz and with or without kaolinite, which is generally the same as that in the parent purple rocks. In addition, the purple soils are characterized by obvious inherited mineralogy, chemical composition, pH value, OM content and nutrient content. Therefore, the diagenetic environment determined the lithology of the purple rock, and the lithology of the purple rock determined the pedogenic characteristics of the purple soil to some extent. Purple soils are characterized by rapid physical weathering and pedogenetic processes and slow chemical pedogenetic processes.Shouqin ZhongZhen HanJing DuEn CiJiupai NiDeti XieChaofu WeiNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2019)
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description	Abstract Classified as Regosols in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Taxonomy, purple soils formed from purple rocks and are mainly distributed in the Sichuan Basin of southwestern China. A number of studies have focused on the soil water, nutrients, texture and erosion of purple soils. This study was conducted to understand the lithological features of the related purple rocks and their effects on the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin. The results showed the following: due to variability in the paleoenvironment, purple rocks mainly consist of sandstone and mudstone with various stratal thicknesses and various particle sizes. The lithology of the purple rocks leads the purple soils have an obvious inheritance from their parent rocks. An apparent purple color and numerous rock fragments derived from the purple parent rock are observed throughout the profile, with no clear soil stratification. The particle size contents of the purple soils are closely related to those of their parent rocks. The clay-sized fractions in the purple soils are generally dominated by illite, vermiculite, chlorite, and montmorillonite with little quartz and with or without kaolinite, which is generally the same as that in the parent purple rocks. In addition, the purple soils are characterized by obvious inherited mineralogy, chemical composition, pH value, OM content and nutrient content. Therefore, the diagenetic environment determined the lithology of the purple rock, and the lithology of the purple rock determined the pedogenic characteristics of the purple soil to some extent. Purple soils are characterized by rapid physical weathering and pedogenetic processes and slow chemical pedogenetic processes.
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title	Relationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China
title_short	Relationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China
title_full	Relationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China
title_fullStr	Relationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China
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Relationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China

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