Soils in Our Environment

This introduction to soil sciences covers traditional and recent topics, such as taxonomy, soil formation, precision agriculture, and GIS and GPS. New topics covered for this edition include tillage erosion, the phosphorous index, and organic farming. To encourage interest, there is new material on

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For Introductory Soil Science and Environmental Soil Science courses.

Based on the most current scientific developments in all areas, this time-honored, broad introduction to soil sciences covers the complete spectrum of traditional and state-of-the-art soil topics—e.g., taxonomy, soil formation, properties of soils, common soil problems and their solutions, evaluation of soils, pollution from use of soils, precision agriculture, GIS, and GPS, wetlands, and use issues.