Volcanic soil resources of Greece

Abstract

A variety of soils occur on volcanic parent materials in Greece, spanning diverse soil groups. Some of the parent materials are quite old (>7 M y), too old for maintaining Andosol characteristics, and none of 2363 profiles of the national database classifies as Andosols. Young volcanism is found on Santorini where relatively poorly developed vitric soils predominate. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.