Calcareous soils as defined here are the soils that fall between the near neutral soils and the alkaline soils (Figure C1) in redox‐pH space. They straddle the calcite fence of the pedogenic grid (Figure C2). The fence itself marks the pH zone below which calcite dissolves and above which it precipitates, by the reaction
Approximate field of calcareous soil as defined in this article. The dashed envelope encloses the field of the common mineral soils.
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Chesworth, W., Camps Arbestain, M., Macías, F. (2008). Calcareous Soils. In: Chesworth, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3995-9_83
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