Soil formation
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Soil formation
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text deals with qualitative and quantitative aspects of soil formation, underlying chemical, biological, and physical processes, and their measurable results. The starting point of the text is not soil classification, but weathering of parent materials, mobilization, transport, and immobilization of dissolved and suspended compounds, placed in the context of biosphere and geosphere. Connections between processes and diagnostic horizons of soil classification are discussed. Emphasis is laid on the universality of soil-forming processes and on the soil as a dynamic entity that forms part of the total environment. The complex genesis of many soils gets its deserved attention. The text is full of examples from literature and the student is guided through the book by a large number of questions and problems, the answers to which are also given.
Table of Contents
- Why soil Genesis?
- soil physical processes
- soil chemical processes
- biological processes in soils
- studying soil profiles
- organic surface horizons
- the formation of hydromorphic soils
- textural differentiation
- formation of calcic, gypsiferous, and saline soils
- formation of vertisols
- podzolization
- formation of andisols
- ferralitization
- dense and cemented horizons - fragipan and duripan
- analyzing complex situations. Appendices
- FAO horizon codes
- formulas and atomic weights
- typical analyses used in the study of predogenesis.
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