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Pedogeochemical and Mineralogical Analyses of Amazonian Dark Earths

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da Costa, M.L., Kern, D.C., Kämpf, N. (2003). Pedogeochemical and Mineralogical Analyses of Amazonian Dark Earths. In: Lehmann, J., Kern, D.C., Glaser, B., Wodos, W.I. (eds) Amazonian Dark Earths. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2597-1_17

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