Soils and Geomorphology
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 April 1999
- ISBN 9780195078862
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 233x189x21 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 240 halftones and line drawings 0
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Short description:
This is the third edition of well-received upper-level text by a leading soils geologist. From a geologist's point of view, the text emphasizes geological applications, processes, and factors. In this revision, Birkeland incorporates the considerable amount of new research that has taken place since the last edition in 1984, expands the sections on applications and paleosols, and adds new "how to" appendices on soil descriptions.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Definition of Soil
Soil Classification
Weathering Processes
The Products of Weathering
Processes Responsible for the Development of Soil Profiles
Factors of Soil Formation
Influence of Parent Material on Weathering and Soil Formation
Weathering and Soil Development with Time
Topography-Soil Relations with Time in Different Climatic Settings
Summary of Climate-Soil Relations, and Paleoclimatic Interpretations
Application of Soils to Geomorphological, Sedimentological, and Environmental Studies
Describing Soil Properties, Horizon Nomenclature, Digging and Photographying Soils, Soil Properties
Calculation of Profile-Development Index, Plotting and Comparing Soil-Index Data
Bibliography
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