Soils

A New Global View

Thomas Ronal Paton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2018
CRC Press (Verlag)
9781138468702 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Thomas Ronal Paton

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 590 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-13: 9781138468702 / 9781138468702
• Zustand: Neuware