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ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
FAO-Unesco Soil Map of the World: South America
Author: Soil Map of the World
Author: Food and Agriculture OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Global and National Soils and Terrain Digital Databases (SOTER)
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Land and Water Development DivisionPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251034293
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
World Soil Resources
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251033944
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Physical Geography of South America
Author: Thomas T. VeblenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190286059
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.
Soil Survey
Author: J. Alfred ZinckPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251036624
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
World Reference Base for Soil Resources
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251041413
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Key to the reference soil groups; Diagnostic horizonts, properties and materials; Diagnostic horizons, Albic horizon; Andic horizon; Anthraquic horizon; Anthropedogenic horizons, Argic horizon; Calcic horizon; Cambic horizon; Cryic horizon; Duric horizon; Ferralic horizon; Ferric horizon; Folic horizon; Fragic horizon; Fulvic horizon; Gypsic horizon; Histic horizon; Hydragric horizon; Hortic horizon; Irragric horizon; Melanic horizon; Mollic horizon; Natric horizon; Nitic horizon; Ochric horizon; Petrocalcic horizon;petroduric horizon; Petrogypsic horizon; Petroplinthic horizon; Plaggic horizon; Plinthic horizon; Salic horizon; Spodic horizon; Sulfuric horizon; Takyric horizon; Terric horizon; Umbric horizon; Vertic horizon; Vitric horizon; Yermic horizon; Diagnostic properties; Abrupt textural change; Albeluvic tonguing, Alic properties; Aridic properties; Continuous hard rock; Ferralic properties; Geric properties; Gleyic properties; Permafrost; Secondary carbonates; Stagnic properties; Strongly humic properties; Diagnostic materials; Anthropogeomorphic soil material; Calcaric soil material; Fluvic soil material; Gypsiric soil material; Organic soil material; Sulfidic soil material; Tephric soil material; Classifying subdivisions of the reference soil groups.
Multilingual Soil Database
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251037782
Category : Geomorphology
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This program is designed to store and manipulate soil profile information such as field descriptions and laboratory data.
GlobalSoilMap
Author: Dominique ArrouaysPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1138001198
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system contains contributions that were presented at the 1st GlobalSoilMap conference, held 7-9 October 2013 in Orléans, France. These contributions demonstrate the latest developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil mapping technology for which the ultimate aim is to produce a high resolution digital spatial soil information system of selected soil properties and their uncertainties for the entire world. GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system aims to stimulate capacity building and new incentives to develop full GlobalSoilMap products in all parts of the world.
Soils of the Past
Author: Gregory J. RetallackPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119530458
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
Book Description
A student-friendly textbook that describes ancient soils, how they may be identified, and their use in paleoenvironmental reconstruction Ancient soils contain vital mineralogical, geochemical, textural, and paleontological information about the continental environments in which they formed. Advances in isotope geochemistry and sequence-stratigraphic models allow evermore detailed reconstructions of environmental change from paleosols, and new insights into such diverse topics as atmospheric chemistry, global change, paleoecology, geobiology and mass extinction. This book educates readers about the field of paleopedology and how it remains a key area of investigation for geologists and environmental scientists seeking to learn about, and reconstruct, the condition and evolution of paleoenvironments. Presented in three sections—Soils and Palesols; Factors in Soil Formation; and Fossil Record of Soils—Soils of the Past: An Introduction to Paleopedology describes the main types of ancient soil, procedures for identifying and studying them, their classification and, most significantly, a wide array of examples of how paleosols have been used for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. The book is an excellent reflection of the current state of knowledge and can be widely adopted over many disciplines. All chapters have been revised and updated to reflect advances in soil science in the last two decades New tables display a wealth of new data added since the 2nd edition published in 2001 New figures have been added and line art has been redrawn to improve clarity and promote understanding References have been updated throughout Soils of the Past, 3rd Edition is written for advanced undergraduates studying paleopedology as part of a degree in geology, environmental science, or physical geography, and for interested professional earth scientists.