The Soils of Ecuador

José Espinosa, Julio Moreno, Gustavo Bernal (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VII, 164 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-79769-4 (ISBN)

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This is the first book to comprehensively discuss Ecuadorian soils. Richly illustrated, it provides information on the unique characteristics and distribution of these soils. Due to the influence of the Andes, which vastly modified the climate and parental materials, a relative small country like Ecuador has a wide variety of soil orders, rarely found in other countries. The country is divided into three distinctive regions by the Andes: The Coastal Plain, the Andean Highlands, and the Amazonia Region each with different soil development, influenced by the varying conditions in that region.
It is also necessary to consider the Galapagos Islands as a separate region with a particular climate and parental material.

Introduction.- Soils of the Tropical Coastal Plain.- Soils from the great tabular cone totally covered with volcanic ash.- Soils from the great tabular cone of Santo Domingo.- Soils from the western Andean Piedmont.- Soils from the Chongón-Colonche mountain range.- Soils of the Andean Highlands.- Soils from the northern Andean highlands.- Soils from the central Andean highlands.- Soils from the southern Andean highlands.- Soils of the Amazonian region.- Soils from the sub-Andean reliefs.- Soils of Galapagos Islands.- Soils from the Santa Cruz Island.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.8.2018
Reihe/Serie	World Soils Book Series
Zusatzinfo	VII, 164 p. 136 illus., 130 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	Alluvial Planes • Andean Highlands • Coastal Plane • Deposition Planes • Soils of Ecuador • Structural Reliefs • Tropical Coastal plain
ISBN-10	3-319-79769-7 / 3319797697
ISBN-13	978-3-319-79769-4 / 9783319797694
Zustand	Neuware