Amazonian Dark Earths
Wim Sombroek's Vision
Editor: William I.Woods
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. (United States), 2008
Hardback, 528 pages
Size: 235x155 mm
ISBN: 9781402090301
ISBN-10: 1402090307
List price: £162.00
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William I. Woods
University Of Southern Illinois, USA
Amazonian Dark Earths
Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed 'terra preta' or dark earths.

