Soils and Geomorphology

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    Soils and Geomorphology Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Oxford University Press Inc
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    Pages: 448 Illustrations and other contents: 240 halftones and line drawings Language: English ISBN: 9780195078862 Category:

    First published in 1974, this text has been popular amond soil scientists, geomorphologists, geologists, geographers, and archaeologists. This third edition will retain the popular format, “factors of soil formation,” whjile 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.” It places greater emphasis on the role of dust in pedogenesis, and includes new data on tropical soil development, global soil-loss relations, neotectonics, and reduction processes. The text discussses field applications such as the use of soils in recognizing climate change, estimating the age of geological depositws, and dealing with environmental problems such as acid rain. “How-to” appendices have been addded, and the section on paleosls has been expanded.

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    "Greatly revised, better than ever! Much new material. Chapter on Weather and Soil Development with Time was especially helpful. Perhaps the most valuable book on my bookshelf."--Hugh Mills, Tennessee Tech University "This third edition greatly expands and updates the second (1984) edition. It is written for soil scientists, geomorphologists, geologists, geographers, and archeologists but would be an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in pedology, soil science, Quaternary geology, and sedimentary geology. This book retains, but also expands and updates, the first five chapters from the previous edition that cover soil morphology, classification, weathering, weathering products and soil-forming processes. Chapter six, factors of soil formation, sets the theme for the remaining four chapters, which addresses the relationship among soils and their formation with parent material, time, topography and climate. Emphasis is on the study of soils in their natural environment; two new appendixes on how to describe soil profiles, and calculate the profile development index are included." --California Geology, May 2000