Major soil groups of the world : ecology, genesis, properties and classification
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, Florida :
CRC Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Definitions, concepts and tools
- 2. Factors of pedogenesis
- 3. Progressive descent of weathering fronts, other pedogenetic mechanisms and spatial organization of soils
- 4. Classifications : international WRB and US soil taxonomy
- 5. Ferralsols and other soils of the hot regions
- 6. Vertisols
- 7. Calcisols and other soils on carbonate-bearing and sulphate-bearing materials
- 8. Cambisols, luvisols and planosols
- 9. Red soils of the Mediterranean and dry tropical zones
- 10. Andosols
- 11. Podzolic soils
- 12. Gleysols, stagnosols and histosols
- 13. Saline soils : solonchaks and solonetz
- 14. Chernozems; general conclusions