• Global distribution an characteristics of black soils 

      Angelini, Marcos Esteban; Rodriguez, Dario Martin; De La Fuente, Juan Carlos; Tenti Vuegen, Leonardo Mauricio; Moretti, Lucas Martin; Schulz, Guillermo; Fontana, Ademir; Landi, Ahmad; Mermut, Ahmet R.; Moreira, Ana Laura; Morras, Hector (FAO, 2022-11-05)
      Although “black soils” is a term used in some national soil classifications, which is influenced by the national linguistic specifics, there has been no consistent definition for black soils at the global level. In the WRB ...
    • El material parental de los suelos de la Región Pampeana en base a la mineralogía de arenas. Aplicaciones a la interpretación de procesos pedológicos 

      Morras, Héctor José María (Asociación Argentina de Ciencia del Suelo, 2020-11-06)
      La influencia de la mineralogía y la granulometría del material parental en las características edáficas son particularmente importantes en suelos jóvenes desarrollados en superficies del Pleistoceno o más recientes. Así, ...
    • Modelos composicionales y áreas de distribución de los aportes volcánicos en los suelos de la Pampa Norte (Argentina) en base a la mineralogía de arenas 

      Morras, Héctor José María (Asociación Argentina de Ciencia del Suelo, 2020-11-09)
      El material parental de los suelos de la Región Pampeana se halla constituido por sedimentos loéssicos (loess típico y loess arcilloso hacia el este de la región y por loess arenoso y arenas eólicas hacia el oeste) ...
    • A new soil-landscape approach to the genesis and distribution of typic and vertic Argiudolls in the Rolling Pampa of Argentina 

      Morras, Hector; Moretti, Lucas Martin (Springer, 2016)
      The Rolling Pampa is one of the several subregions of the large Pampa plains in central Argentina. The most extensive and representative soils in the area are Typic Argiudolls, together with a smaller proportion of Vertic ...
    • Polygenic vertisols and "Hidden" vertisols of the Paraná River Basin Argentina 

      Morras, Hector; Bressan, Emiliano Miguel; Angelini, Marcos Esteban; Tenti Vuegen, Leonardo Mauricio; Moretti, Lucas Martin; Rodriguez, Dario Martin; Schulz, Guillermo (Springer, 2023-01)
      Vertisols and soils with vertic properties occupy considerable areas in the east of the Pampa Region. Many of thèse Vertisols have particular features that dif- ferentiate them from most of the Vertisols in the world. In ...
    • Soils of the Chaco Region 

      Moretti, Lucas Martin; Morras, Hector; Pereyra, Fernando X.; Schulz, Guillermo (Springer, 2019)
      The Argentinian Chaco region belongs to an extensive ecoregion called “Great Chaco”, characterized by ample plains of fluvial aggradation and linked to the formation of large alluvial fans. The climate is semi-arid to ...
    • Status and challenges of black soils 

      Fontana, Ademir; Labaz, Beata; Monger, Curtis; Morras, Hector; Wang, Lei; Pfeiffer, Marco; Taboada, Miguel Angel; Valle, Susana (FAO, 2022-11-05)
      Although black soils account for only 8.2 percent of the Global Land Area (FAO, 2022a), they are of paramount importance for food security, as highlighted by the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 (i.e to end hunger, achieve ...