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Book Description
Soils and Geomorphology, now in its third edition, remains popular among soil scientists, geomorphologists, geologists, geographers, and archaeologists. While retaining the useful "factors of soil formation format," it has been extensively revised, incorporating a considerable amount of new
research and offering a greater number of topics and examples -- particularly in the chapters "Weathering and Soil Development with Time" and "Topography: Soil Relations with Time in Different Climatic Settings." Greater emphasis is placed on the role of dust in pedogenesis, and new data are
included on tropical soil development, global soil-loess relations, neotectonics, and reduction processes. The text discusses field applications such as the use of soils in recognizing climate change, estimating the age of geological deposits, and dealing with environmental problems such as acid
rain. New "how-to" appendices on soil descriptions and calculating the profile development index are also included. Soils and Geomorphology is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses on pedology, soil science, Quaternary geology, archeology, and sedimentary
petrology.
Soils and Geomorphology,Peter Birkeland,Oxford University Press, USA,0195078861,Earth Sciences - General,Earth Sciences - Geology,Environmental Engineering & Technology,Geology, Stratigraphic,Geophysics,Quaternary,Science,Science/Mathematics,Soil formation,Soil science,Weathering,Earth Sciences | Geophysics,Physical geography,Science / Earth Sciences,Soil science, sedimentology
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