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Soils: A New Global View

John Gerrard, T. R. Paton, G. S. Humphreys, PB Mitchell

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Part 1 The processes of soil formation and the resulting soil materials: weathering and leaching new mineral formation and inheritance bioturbation rainwash aeolian processes soil creep. Part 2 The distribution of soil material: the pedological hierarchy the soils of a continental plate centre - Australia, Africa soils of other continental plate centres the soil materials of continental plate margins.

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Key concepts: Weathering, Bioturbation, Soil water, Geology, Aeolian processes, Soil production function, Soil morphology, Earth science