This study was conducted to understand the genesis of soils from different volcanic parent materials, such as andesite, dacite, volcanic ash, basalt and ignimbrite, in the region east of the Erciyes stratovolcano in Central Anatolia.
Regional anomalous metal concentrations can be linked to natural variations in soil parent materials, such as high Ni and Cr in soils developed on ultramafic rocks in California or high P in soils formed on weathered Ordovician limestones in central Kentucky.
Secondly, according to Buol et al. (2011) the volcanic parent materials such as rhyolites, granite, trachytes, ignimbrites, andesites and some acidic basalts that dominate the Ethiopian produce inherently acidic clays.
The damping loss factors of composite slender beams with different fiber orientations were tested to determine the constitutive damping properties of parent materials for such hybrid sandwich panels.
Andosols are highly porous, dark-coloured soils developed from parent material of volcanic origin, such as volcanic ash, tuff, and pumice.
The DRIFT spectra were related to many site/soil attributes including land cover type, parent material, and associated factors, such as permafrost presence/absence, drainage class, horizon depth, bulk density, cation exchange capacity, and pH.
Volcanic ash deposits may vary in depth as a result of regional geomorphological factors such as parent material, orientation, slope, and altitude.
Environmental factors such as parent material and climate can have a large effect on total carbon concentration and soil carbon stocks, yet unlike vegetation type, fertiliser use and grazing pressure, these cannot be changed by management.
In other words, the concentrations of elements in closer samples were more similar to each other probably due to the effects of natural factors such as parent material, topography, and soil type.
The main hypothesis underlying the method is that soil types result from environmental factors such as landform, parent material, and land cover.
