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Soils: A New Global View

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Offers a perspective on soils as earth materials, which establishes a pedological hierarchy of materials, processes and factors, and their rationalization in terms of plate tectonics. The book should interest soil and earth scientists.

Author(s): T. R. Paton, G. S. Humphreys, P. B. Mitchell
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1995

Language: English
Pages: 233
City: Boca Raton

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of plates
Introduction
Part I The processes of soil formation and the resulting materials
1 Weathering and leaching
2 New mineral formation and inheritance
3 Bioturbation
4 Rainwash
5 Aeolian processes
6 Soil creep
PART II The distribution of soil material
7 The pedological hierarchy
8 Soils of a continental plate centre, I: Australia
9 Soils of a continental plate centre, II: Africa
10 Soils of other continental plate centres
11 Soil materials of continental plate margins
Appendix 1 Silicate structures
Appendix 2 Soil fabric and consistence
Appendix 3 Field texture grading
References
Author index
Subject index