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Title Details:
Pedology
Other Titles: Soil Morphology, Genesis and Classification
Authors: Gasparatos, Dionysios
Reviewer: Massas, Ioannis
Kairis, Orestis
Subject: NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > SOIL SCIENCE
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > SOIL SCIENCE > SOIL CLASSIFICATION
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > SOIL SCIENCE > SOIL MORPHOLOGY
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > SOIL SCIENCE > SOIL PROCESSES AND PHENOMENA
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > SOIL SCIENCE > SOIL SURVEYS
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > SOIL SCIENCE > SOIL
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > SOIL SCIENCE > SOIL RESOURCES
Keywords:
Soil
Factors of soil formation
Pedogenetic processes
Weathering
Soil texture
Soil structure
Soil orders
Soil hue
Leaching
Hydrolysis
Redox features
Concretions
Illuviation
Argilic horizon
Montmorillonite
Xeralfs
Fluvisols
Soil Taxonomy
Description:
Abstract:
Soils are central to life on Earth because they provide food, clean water and air due to their filtering capacity; raw materials; habitats for living organisms; and climate resilience via carbon sequestration, therefore supporting a variety of ecosystem services. Despite this, soil’s life-sustaining functions have been underestimated until recently, and few people seem to be aware of them. It is now clear that soil plays an active role in maintaining life and that life is unable to exist without it. The insights about soils that have been gleaned over the last few decades have revealed that these complex systems are fragile, scarce, non-renewable, threatened resources as well as a crucial link between local and global environmental issues. Pedology is the study of soils as they occur in their environment. This includes soil morphology, formation, genesis, classification, and mapping. These topics make pedology relevant for tackling global issues such as soil, food, energy and water security, and climate regulation and human health. Pedology is the study of soils as they occur in their environment. This includes soil morphology, formation, genesis, classification and cartography. These topics make pedology relevant for tackling global issues such as soil, food, energy and water security, and climate regulation and human health. Pedology is an integrative and extrapolative science. Pedologists integrate an understanding of landscapes, vegetation patterns, climate and human activity into knowledge about soils and their distribution and extrapolate their knowledge into soil maps. Pedology is the "heart", the "soul" and the "artistry" of soil science: the "heart" because it integrates all the components of soils in their landscapes; the "soul" because it deals with concepts of soil morphology and genesis; the "artistry" because it deals with the location and patterns of soils. Pedology is the "glue" that holds soil science together and is the hard core of soil science that does not fit with any other science discipline.
Linguistic Editors: Oxenkioun, Eleni Elissavet
Graphic Editors: Makrinou, Sophia
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 15-03-2024
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-215-1
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-953
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/12844
Bibliographic Reference: Gasparatos, D. (2024). Pedology [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-953
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. The soil color
2. Soil texture
3. The soil structure
4. Soil hydromorphology and redox features formation
5. Physical and chemical weathering
6. Soil genesis
7. Pedogenetic processes
8. The soil profile
9. Soil Classification
10. Diagnostic horizons and features
11. Entisols
12. Inceptisols
13. Alfisols
14. Vertisols
Number of pages 288
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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