Soils And Their Environment

Soils And Their Environment by Banwart, Wayne L.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780134840499.

This expansive treatment of soils provides a solid,in-depth foundation to soil principles and concepts and their application. This comprehensive volume brings together the concepts of soil with other basic sciences in a single source. It incorporates a wealth of detailed information on chemistry, physics, geology, and plant physiology in its examination of soil properties and soil-plant relationships. Mechanisms controlling soil, pH, weathering and soil formation processes, heat movement in soils, prediction and control of wind and water erosion and other topics are clearly illustrated in easy-to-read theoretical detail, making this a valuable guide to the science of soil.