Description: Principles of soil classification in general and of U.S. soil taxonomy in particular. Factors and processes of soil formation. Mineral weathering, geomorphology, and climate as related to ...
A team of researchers has found that hardy native plants could play a surprising role in transforming one of the aluminum ...
Originally published in vyp. 6 of Izvestiia Geograficheskogo instituta in Leningrad (romanized form) TENTATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF SOILFORMING PROCESSES AS RELATED TO SOIL GENESIS OPYT KLASSIFIKATSII ...
Human activity causes 10 times more erosion of continental surfaces than all natural processes combined, an analysis by a University of Michigan geologist shows. ANN ARBOR, Mich. --- Human activity ...
Melting Arctic glaciers are in rapid recession, and microscopic organisms colonise the newly exposed landscapes. Dr. James Bradley, Honorary Reader in Arctic Biogeochemistry in the School of ...
The world's oldest soils are found in Africa and Australia and date back more than 50 million years. These soils are highly weathered and are in regions we now classify as deserts. According to the ...