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The historic man-made soils of the Generalife garden (La Alhambra, Granada, Spain)

2007-02-01

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We studied the soils of the Patio de la Acequia garden of the Generalife, a palatial villa forming part of La Alhambra, a World Heritage Site in Granada, Spain. This garden, which is estimated to be around 700 years old, is the oldest historical garden in the Western World. The soils are man-made cumulimollihumic-calcaric (hypereutric, anthric) Regosols. Noteworthy amongst the main pedogenic processes, in relation...

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Literature Corpus work: 8ddefc19-6b94-51f3-b9db-79665c7186cd
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2006.00829.x

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