Soils: A New Global View
- ISBN-10
- 0300066090
- ISBN-13
- 9780300066098
- Series
- Soils
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- T. R. Paton, G. S. Humphreys, Peter Balfour Mitchell
Description
This important book challenges the prevalent view of the characteristics and origins of soils. In it, three distinguished earth scientists argue that soils are primarily geological materials altered and rearranged by biological, geological, and geomorphic processes rather than as direct products of time, climate, organisms, parent material, and topographic setting.
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