Our good earth : a natural history of soil /
"The author explains the science and the importance of soil, with a description of how soils have evolved over the past 3.5 billion years and how they affect human civilization"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Publishing,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is soil and why does it matter?
- The earth's surface : a history
- Rocks and rock weathering
- Clay and how it forms
- To the sea and back
- The living surface
- Parent material and climate
- Organisms, topography, and time
- How soils evolved
- Nitrogen : a perverse chemistry.