CLAY MOVEMENT IN PALEOSOLS OF THE LOESS PLATEAU IN CHINA
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    There are several Paleosols which contain a high proportion of clay with the leaching out of lime carbonates in loss profile. The origins of the clays have caused great argument. Researchers who maintain the point of view of residual argillification have thought that the clays in the paleosols are dominated by illites with Iime-magnesia saturation and have very weak hydrophility and mechanical eluviation. But, the phenomena of clay partial translocation and accumulation do exist in either recent soils or paleosols. For instance, the shining cutan outside the ped or optical orientation clay particles and whorl-shaped aggregates in the thin section investigations or both of them were observed. This paper, besides the affirmation to the existence of above phenomena, indiGates that the causes of the phenomena are different from those of phenimena which result from the mechanical eluviation and illuviation in common soil profile in that they were caused by intensive biological effect, espectially by bio decay and minerslization and mineral feedback and "biosynthesis" (biogenetic) of the clay minerals in two to one crystalline structure on the surface of mollisols in which herbage had grown lushly at the early stage of the soil formation, and "mitcro-ice wedge like" actions particually the later even leads to the formation of star-clove of garlic-shaped soil masses with smooth and shining surface within the transitional areas between claying hirizons and C horizons.

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Zhu Xianmo, Cheng Wenli. CLAY MOVEMENT IN PALEOSOLS OF THE LOESS PLATEAU IN CHINA[J]. Acta Pedologica Sinica,1994,31(4):371-375.

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