Wood ash stone near Sydney, NSW - a carbonate pedologial feature in an acidic soil
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Soil Research
- Vol. 25 (2) , 115-124
- https://doi.org/10.1071/sr9870115
Abstract
Wood-ash stone, composed mainly of calcite (XRD, XRF, EMS and petrological determination), has been found within the remains of a large, standing and mostly burnt tree (Angophora costata) near Sydney, N.S.W. This may be the first recorded occurrence of wood-ash stone in Australia and outside North America. Slow burning of standing trees is proposed as a mechanism for producing carbonate features in nutrient poor and acidic soil parent materials such as the quartzose Hawkesbury Sandstone.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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