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GEOG 3313

Introduction to Soil Science

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Topics

  • humanity as a whole. Biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere are all
  • changes to the original parent material brought about by climate and living organisms
  • highly heterogeneous appearance and function of all the world’s soils. Soils can also be
  • seen as a medium for plant growth, where the living and the dead matter interact to act
  • as a source of food for almost all terrestrial fauna
  • concepts
  • Soil Definitions
  • Pedogenesis
  • Principles of Soil Physics
  • Principles of Soil Chemistry
  • Soil - Climate interaction
  • Soil Moisture
  • Soil Organisms
  • Soil Erosion
  • Soil Classification/Taxonomy

Readings

  • Digging into Canadian Soils (2021). Eds., M. Krzic, F. Walley, A. Diochon, MC. Paré, and R. Farrell. Canadian Society of Soil Science.
  • To access the textbook
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