Major soil groups of the world [electronic resource] : ecology, genesis, properties and classification / Jean-Paul Legros ; translated from the French by V.A.K. Sarma.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2013. Description: xiii, 464 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9781466502437 (ebook : PDF)Uniform titles: Grands sols du monde. English Subject(s): Soils | Soil formation | Soils -- Classification | Soil geographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition."A Science Publishers book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Definitions, concepts and tools -- 2. Factors of pedogenesis -- 3. Progressive descent of weathering fronts, other pedogenetic mechanisms and spatial organization of soils -- 4. Classifications : international WRB and U.S. soil taxonomy -- 5. Ferralsols and other soils of the hot regions -- 6. Vertisols -- 7. Calcisols and other soils on carbonate-bearing and sulphate-bearing materials -- 8. Cambisols, luvisols and planosols -- 9. Red soils of the Mediterranean and dry tropical zones -- 10. Andosols -- 11. Podzolic soils -- 12. Gleysols, stagnosols and histosols -- 13. Saline soils : solonchaks and solonetz -- 14. Chernozems; general conclusions.
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