Fundamentals of Soil Science

Fundamentals of Soil Science

This note describes the following topics: Soil Forming Processes, Aerial Photography, Soil Classification and Land Capability Classification, Soil Physical Properties, Soil Structure and Consistency, Densities of Soil, Porosity and Soil Color, Soil Air and Temperature, Soil Water, Soil Colloids, Ion Exchange, Soil pH and Nutrient Availability, Soil Organic Matter, Soil Environmental Quality and Quality of Irrigation Water .

Author(s): Dr. D. Tripathi, Dr. S. Mani and Sh. Mohinder Singh

133 Pages

The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms

This note explains the following topics: Habits Of Worms, The Amount Of Fine Earth Brought Up By Worms To The Surface, The Part Which Worms Have Played In The Burial Of Ancient Buildings, The Action Of Worms In The Denudation Of The Land, The Denudation Of The Land.

Author(s): Charles Darwin

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Land Degradation and Desertification

This book is organized into two sections. The first section covers three major aspects, viz., an understanding of patterns of land degradation and desertification for developing mitigation strategies, land-atmosphere interaction from response of land cover to climate change effects of Karst rocky desertification. The last section dwells on the relationship between soil degradation and crop production and an examination on how land degradation impacts the quality of soil in communal rangelands.

Author(s): Abiud Kaswamila

NA Pages

Status of the Worlds Soil Resources

Goal of this guide is to make clear these essential connections between human well-being and the soil, and to provide a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured.

Author(s): Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

648 Pages

Soil Science Lecture Notes

This book explains the following topics: Soil Physics - Solids, Water, Heat, Soil aeration, solute transportation, Effects of cattle grazing on soils in coniferous forests, Soil Chemistry: Ion adsorption and exchange, Soil organic matter, Soil Biology - Soil organisms, Physiology and environment of soil organisms, Soil Fertility - Soil as a source of plant nutrients and Nutrient cycles.

Author(s): The University of British Columbia

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Soil Culture

This volume is designed to be a complete manual for all but amateur cultivators. The object of this volume is to condense, and present in an intelligible form, all important established facts in the science of soil-culture. The author claims originality, as to the discovery of facts and principles, in but few cases.

Author(s): J. H. Walden

NA Pages