A Handbook Of Soil Terminology Correlation And Classification

Author : Pavel Krasilnikov,Juan-Jose Ibanez Marti,Richard Arnold,Serghei Shoba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136546631

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A Handbook of Soil Terminology, Correlation and Classification by Pavel Krasilnikov,Juan-Jose Ibanez Marti,Richard Arnold,Serghei Shoba Pdf

Soil classification and terminology are fundamental issues for the clear understanding and communication of the subject. However, while there are many national soil classification systems, these do not directly correlate with each other. This leads to confusion and great difficulty in undertaking comparative scientific research that draws on more than one system and in making sense of international scientific papers using a system that is unfamiliar to the reader. This book aims to clarify this position by describing and comparing different systems and evaluating them in the context of the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources. The latter was set up to resolve these problems by creating an international 'umbrella' system for soil correlation. All soil scientists should then classify soils using the WRB as well as their national systems. The book is a definitive and essential reference work for all students studying soils as part of life, earth or environmental sciences, as well as professional soil scientists. Published with International Union of Soil Sciences

Author : Pavel Krasilnikov,Richard Arnold,Juan-Jose Ibanez Marti,Serghei Shoba
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781849774352

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A Handbook of Soil Terminology, Correlation and Classification by Pavel Krasilnikov,Richard Arnold,Juan-Jose Ibanez Marti,Serghei Shoba Pdf

Soil classification and terminology are fundamental issues for the clear understanding and communication of the subject. However, while there are many national soil classification systems, these do not directly correlate with each other. This leads to confusion and great difficulty in undertaking comparative scientific research that draws on more than one system and in making sense of international scientific papers using a system that is unfamiliar to the reader. This book aims to clarify this position by describing and comparing different systems and evaluating them in the context of the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources. The latter was set up to resolve these problems by creating an international 'umbrella' system for soil correlation. All soil scientists should then classify soils using the WRB as well as their national systems. The book is a definitive and essential reference work for all students studying soils as part of life, earth or environmental sciences, as well as professional soil scientists.Published with International Union of Soil Sciences

Author : Hari Eswaran,Robert Ahrens,Thomas J. Rice,B.A. Stewart
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420040364

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Soil Classification by Hari Eswaran,Robert Ahrens,Thomas J. Rice,B.A. Stewart Pdf

Developments in soil classification have accompanied parallel progress in our understanding of the soil system. However the theories behind the classifications and the purposes for which they were created have changed over time. The editors hope that this comprehensive synthesis will help to rally soil scientists around the world to develop an acce

Author : Pan Ming Huang,Yuncong Li,Malcolm E. Sumner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439803042

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Handbook of Soil Sciences (Two Volume Set) by Pan Ming Huang,Yuncong Li,Malcolm E. Sumner Pdf

An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below. It acts as an anchor for roots, a purveyor of water and nutrients, a residence for a vast community of microorganisms and animals, a sanitizer of the environment, and a source of raw materials for co

Author : Kathleen Woida
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609387501

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Iowa's Remarkable Soils by Kathleen Woida Pdf

In language that is scientifically sound but accessible to the layperson, Kathleen Woida explains how Iowa's soils formed and have changed over centuries and millennia. Its soils are what make Iowa a premier agricultural state, both in terms of acres planted and bushels harvested. But in the last hundred years, large-scale intensive agriculture and urban development have severely degraded most of our soils. However, as Woida documents, some innovative Iowans are beginning to repair and regenerate their soils by treating them as the living ecosystem and vast carbon store that they are.

Author : CW van Huyssteen
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781928424666

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Relating the South African soil taxonomy to the World Reference Base for soil resources by CW van Huyssteen Pdf

The South African Taxonomic soil classification system (SAT) is well established and utilised in South Africa. However, it is not internationally well known and therefore the need arose to provide a tool by which South African soil taxonomists can convert South African soil classifications and profile descriptions to the international classifications of the World Reference Base (WRB) for soil resources. The diagnostics and tacit knowledge presented in this publication are therefore based on the SAT and the WRB. When necessary, further substantiation was derived from the Land Type Survey of South Africa. The adopted procedure is effective in providing a reasonable classification based on the South African soil forms and families, while excluding certain WRB soil groups and qualifiers, because these are irrelevant to South African taxonomy. Lastly, this publication also highlights some peculiarities, omissions and inconsistencies observed between the SAT and WRB.

Author : Jo Handelsman,Kayla Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300256406

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A World Without Soil by Jo Handelsman,Kayla Cohen Pdf

A scientist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change

Author : Neli Jordanova
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128094952

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Soil Magnetism by Neli Jordanova Pdf

Soil Magnetism: Applications in Pedology, Environmental Science and Agriculture provides a systematic, comparative, and detailed overview of the magnetic characterization of the major soil units and the observed general relationships, possibilities, and perspectives in application of rock magnetic methods in soil science, agriculture, and beyond. Part I covers detailed magnetic and geochemical characterization of major soil types according to the FAO classification system, with Part II covering the mapping of topsoil magnetic signatures on the basis of soil magnetic characteristics. The book concludes with practical examples on the application of magnetic methods in environmental science, agriculture, soil pollution, and paleoclimate. Provides an overview of the major findings of uncontaminated soil profiles and proposes a system of magnetic characteristics Elucidates the relationship between geochemical and magnetic characteristics of different soil types, providing a basis for wider recognition and application of soil magnetism in classical pedagogical characterization of soils Covers the peculiarities of the main taxonomic soil groups in terms of magnetic mineralogy and depth variations in concentration, grain size, and phase composition of iron oxides

Author : Willy H. Verheye
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263697

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Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production - Volume III by Willy H. Verheye Pdf

Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production is a component of Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. Plants, and crops in particular, grow and develop through the uptake of water and nutrients by the root system in soils and their transformation into biomass through processes governed by photosynthesis. The quality and amount of products harvested from this biomass depend largely on the intrinsic properties of the soil, i.e. the moisture and nutrients made available for uptake by the roots. These volumes describe in a synthetic form the impact of the most important soil properties on general agronomy, crop production, cultivation methods, and yields, including the specific management aspects which take away some production constraints. Changes in general agronomy as a result of plant breeding, climatic change and competition between newly introduced crops are discussed. The three volumes with contributions from distinguished experts in the field discusses about soils, plant growth and crop production in several related topics. These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Pedro A. Sanchez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107176058

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Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics by Pedro A. Sanchez Pdf

Long-awaited second edition of classic textbook, brought completely up to date, for courses on tropical soils, and reference for scientists and professionals.

Author : Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee. Soil Classification Working Group,National Research Council Canada,Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Research Branch
Publisher : NRC Research Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0660174049

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The Canadian System of Soil Classification by Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee. Soil Classification Working Group,National Research Council Canada,Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Research Branch Pdf

This treatise begins with an introduction on the history of soil classification in Canada and discussion of the rationale for soil taxonomy. It then defines such terms as soil, pedon, and soil horizons before outlining the classification system along with identification keys. Chapters 4 through 13 describe the characteristics of the various soil orders and include information on distinguishing soils of one order from soils of other orders. Chapter 14 outlines criteria & guidelines used in differentiating classes in soil families and soil series categories. Chapter 15 provides information on distinguishing soil phases. Chapter 16 correlates Canadian soil taxonomy with other classification systems. Chapter 17 summarizes the main terminology used to describe soils at the landscape and pedon scales. The final chapter provides a system of landform classification for soil mapping.

Author : United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Soil-surveys
ISBN : UIUC:30112020011711

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National Soils Handbook by United States. Soil Conservation Service Pdf

Author : Perrin Selcer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231548236

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The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment by Perrin Selcer Pdf

In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea of world government. In The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment, Perrin Selcer argues that the metaphor of “Spaceship Earth”—the idea of the planet as a single interconnected system—exemplifies this moment, when a mix of anxiety and hope inspired visions of world community and the proliferation of international institutions. Selcer tells the story of how the United Nations built the international knowledge infrastructure that made the global-scale environment visible. Experts affiliated with UN agencies helped make the “global”—as in global population, global climate, and global economy—an object in need of governance. Selcer traces how UN programs such as UNESCO’s Arid Lands Project, the production of a soil map of the world, and plans for a global environmental-monitoring system fell short of utopian ambitions to cultivate world citizens but did produce an international community of experts with influential connections to national governments. He shows how events and personalities, cultures and ecologies, bureaucracies and ideologies, decolonization and the Cold War interacted to make global knowledge. A major contribution to global history, environmental history, and the history of development, this book relocates the origins of planetary environmentalism in the postwar politics of scale.

Author : Paulo Pereira,Eric Brevik,Miriam Muñoz-Rojas,Bradley Miller
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128052013

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Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management by Paulo Pereira,Eric Brevik,Miriam Muñoz-Rojas,Bradley Miller Pdf

Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management is the first reference to address the use of soil mapping and modeling for sustainability from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The use of more powerful statistical techniques are increasing the accuracy of maps and reducing error estimation, and this text provides the information necessary to utilize the latest techniques, as well as their importance for land use planning. Providing practical examples to help illustrate the application of soil process modeling and maps, this reference is an essential tool for professionals and students in soil science and land management who want to bridge the gap between soil modeling and sustainable land use planning. Offers both a theoretical and practical approach to soil mapping and its uses in land use management for sustainability Synthesizes the most up-to-date research on soil mapping techniques and applications Provides an interdisciplinary approach from experts worldwide working in soil mapping and land management

Author : Stanley W. Buol,Randal J. Southard,Robert C. Graham,Paul A. McDaniel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470960608

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Soil Genesis and Classification by Stanley W. Buol,Randal J. Southard,Robert C. Graham,Paul A. McDaniel Pdf

Soil Genesis and Classification, Sixth Edition, builds on the success of the previous editions to present an unparalleled resource on soil formation and classification. Featuring a color plate section containing multiple soil profiles, this text also includes information on new classification systems and emerging technologies and databases with updated references throughout. Covering the diverse needs of both the academic and professional communities, this classic text will be a must have reference for all those in soil science and related fields.