
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Humphreys, GS 
A1  - Hunt, PA 
A1  - Buchanan, R 
T1  - Wood ash stone near Sydney, NSW - a carbonate pedologial feature in an acidic soil
JF  - Soil Research
JO  - Soil Res.
Y1  - 1987
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 115
EP  - 124
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/SR9870115 
N2  - Wood-ash stone, composed mainly of calcite (XRD, XRF, EMS and petrological determination), has been found within the remains of a large, standing and mostly burnt tree (Angophora costata) near Sydney, N.S.W. This may be the first recorded occurrence of wood-ash stone in Australia and outside North America. Slow burning of standing trees is proposed as a mechanism for producing carbonate features in nutrient poor and acidic soil parent materials such as the quartzose Hawkesbury Sandstone. 
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