Celebrating soil : discovering soils and landscapes / M.R. Balks, D. Zabowski.
2016
S591 .B35 2016eb
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Title
Celebrating soil : discovering soils and landscapes / M.R. Balks, D. Zabowski.
Author
Balks, M. R., author.
ISBN
9783319326849 (electronic book)
3319326848 (electronic book)
9783319326825
3319326821
3319326848 (electronic book)
9783319326825
3319326821
Published
Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-32684-9 doi
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S591 .B35 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.4
Summary
"This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form. The book unravels the complex bond between humans and soils and the importance of soils in our cultures and everyday lives. Soil is critical to terrestrial life on earth. It underpins human food supply and provides materials on which we build our lives. Soil is out of sight and often out of mind, thus easy to overlook. Yet soil has tremendous variety and intrinsic beauty for those who care to look. Soil contains a memory of the events that have shaped the landscape and the environment. With help you can look at a soil and understand the stories that it has to tell. Written in a reader-friendly way, Celebrating Soil is a wonderful resource for farmers, horticulturalists, naturalists, students and others who are concerned about how soils are formed, work and are used"--Provided by publisher.
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Zabowski, D., author.
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Table of Contents
Soils in harmony with the environment
Soils born of fire
Soils born of water
Soils of forests
Soils of grasslands and rangelands
Soils in extreme environments
When the earth moves: Earthquakes, landslides and erosion
Soils and humans
Managing and caring for our soils
Appendices.
Soils born of fire
Soils born of water
Soils of forests
Soils of grasslands and rangelands
Soils in extreme environments
When the earth moves: Earthquakes, landslides and erosion
Soils and humans
Managing and caring for our soils
Appendices.