Soils - A New Global View

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.

List of contents

Part 1 The processes of soil formation and the resulting soil materials: weathering and leaching; new mineral formation and inheritance; bioturbation; rainwash; aeolian processes; soil creep. Part 2 The distribution of soil material: the pedological hierarchy; the soils of a continental plate centre - Australia, Africa; soils of other continental plate centres; the soil materials of continental plate margins.

About the author

Thomas Ronal Paton

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Ronal Paton, Paton Thomas Ronal
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.1995
• EAN: 9781857284652
• ISBN: 978-1-85728-465-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Soil science, sedimentology, Sedimentology and pedology