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Vertisols and technologies for their management /
Vertisols, one of the eleven established soil orders, are clay soils with unusual and interesting properties. They cover more than 350 million hectares of land in the world and in tropical Africa alone there are over 100 million hectares. Because of their very small particle size and high surface ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier,
�1996.
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| Colección: | Developments in soil science ;
24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Occurance and distribution of vertisols / N. Ahmad
- Pedogenesis / A.R. Mermut, E. Padmanabham, H. Eswaran and G.S. Dasog
- Classification of vertisols / W.A. Blokhuis
- Soil morphology / A.R. Mermut, G.S. Dasog, and G.N. Dowuona
- Mineraology and chemistry of vertisols / Clement E. Coulombe, J.B. Dixon, and L.P. Wilding
- Water relations and water management of vertisols / Miroslav Kut�ilek
- The structure and grain size distribution of vertisols / D. McGarry
- Tillage and cultural practices / D.F. Yule and T.F. Willcocks
- Soil erosion and soil conservation for vertisols / D.M. Freebairn, R.J. Loch, and D.M. Silburn
- Management of vertisols in rainfed conditions / N. Ahmad
- Management of irrigated vertisols / N. Ahmad
- Management of vertisols for rice production / N. Ahmad and W.A. Muirhead
- Cold vertisols and their management / A.R. Mermut, D.D. Patterson, and P.A. McDaniel
- Geotechnical problems associated with swelling clays / D.G. Fredlund.