Sedimentology and pedology

This volume provides a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa.

The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants.

Soil Carbon Storage: Modulators, Mechanisms and Modeling takes a novel approach to the issue of soil carbon storage by considering soil C sequestration as a function of the interaction between biotic (e.

The scaling issue remains one of the largest problems in soil science and hydrology.

It is hard to imagine a more concise summary of the prodigious work and voluminous publications in this field.

This second edition of EPA's bestselling book, Description and Sampling of Contaminated Soils: A Field Guide, Second Edition, has been revised and significantly expanded over the original edition.

The book provides insight into the working of clays and clay minerals in speeding up a variety of organic reactions.

This book discusses the recession of alpine glaciers since the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA), which has been accelerating in the past decades.

Crop disease management strategies revolve around the principles of exclusion, eradication and immunization.

This important new volume presents a plethora of research on the distribution of heavy metals in soils and rocks of natural habitats, farmlands, and urbanized areas along with the factors influencing their bioavailability.

Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac are, in reality, the summits of independent fault blocks that rise from the depths of the Caribbean Sea.

Provides the first comprehensive review of the current state of the science on tills It is critical that glacial scientists continue to refine their interpretations of ancient archives of subglacial processes, specifically those represented by tills and associated deposits, as they form the most widespread and accessible record of processes at the ice-bed interface.

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.

Philosophers increasingly engage in practical work with other disciplines and the world at large.

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.

This book studies the Fuegian Andes in Argentina, showing both simple and complex aspects.

Expansive Soils provides the reader with easy and specific access to problems associated with expansive soils, characterisitics and treatment, and evaluation and remediation.

The first edition of this book was published in 1973, the second, totally rewritten, followed 7 years later in 1980.

Much of the final shaping of the global landscape is accomplished by incision of river networks.

Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline.

For much of history, soil has played a major, and often central, role in the lives of humans.

The 2014 International Conference on Biotechnology, Agriculture, Environment and Energy (ICBAEE 2014) was held May 22-23, 2014 in Beijing, China.

This book offers as comprehensive an overview as possible of the lithostratigraphy of the Italian region of Sicily, taking into account the multiplicity of formational and terminological variability developed over more than a century of studies and publications.

Focusing on the technical, social, and economic issues involved in watershed management, this interdisciplinary author team focuses on bettering land use practices and the condition of soil water resources.

Submerged soils and the wetlands they support are of huge practical importance: in global element cycles, as centres of biodiversity, in global food production.

Microbial mats are benthic communities of a variety of microorganisms.

Despite advances in modeling, such as graphical user interfaces, the use of GIS layers, and databases for developing input files, the approaches to modeling phosphorus (P) have not changed since their initial development in the 1980s.

The South Atlantic plays a critical role in the couplingofoceanic processes between the Antarctic and the lower latitudes.

An exploration of the most complex microbial ecosystems with incisive reviews of developments in soil science.

The material of this book will derive its scientific under-pinning from basics of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, engineering, soil science, and related disciplines and will provide sufficient breadth and depth of understanding in each sub-section of hydrology.

Wetland identification, although theoretically straightforward, is not cut and dry as a practice.

Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces contains contributions presented at the 2nd Global Soil Security conference, held 5-6 December 2016 in Paris.

Put Theory into PracticeScarcity of natural resources, higher costs, higher demand, and concerns about environmental pollution- under these circumstances, improving food supply worldwide with adequate quantity and quality is fundamental.

Clay minerals are one of the most important groups of minerals that destroy permeability in sandstones.

The investigation phase is the most important segment of any geotechnical study.

This book reviews the unique ecosystem of the Lake Skadar/Shkodra and its basin, and discusses the latest advances made in this region to face the impact of climate change.

Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline.

The book titled "e;Microbiome and Plant Nutrition?

A practical guide to water conflict resolution for professionals and academics involved in water management.

Nitrogen is one of the most critical elements for all life forms.

Volume 1 of the Sustainable Management of Sediment Resources mini-series is the first attempt to fill many of these gaps in knowledge and also in practice.

Diese Einführung in die spezielle Mineralogie, Petrologie und Lagerstättenkunde auf genetischer Grundlage konzentriert sich auf wesentliche Lehrinhalte des Fachgebietes und setzt Grundkenntnisse in der allgemeinen Mineralogie und Kristallographie voraus.

The final edition of this was published in 1977, so a completely revised and updated new edition of Project Surveying became a necessary requirement, should the book continue its service to the surveying and civil engineering students and profession in the same successful way as from the very first publication in 1966.

The Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), focus of this special publication, is a prolific hydrocarbon region and both exploration and production activity remains high to this day with a positive production outlook.

In recent years, viticulture has seen phenomenal growth, particularly in such countries as Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Chile, and South Africa.

With contributions from a broad range of experts in the field, this volume, Microbiology for Sustainable Agriculture, Soil Health, and Environmental Protection, focuses on important areas of microbiology related to soil and environmental microbiology associated with agricultural importance.

This book represents a rather complicated history of encounters, changes in research interest and some very interesting results.

An integrated view of the current and emerging methods and concepts applied in soil carbon research.

This edited book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 1st MedGU Annual Meeting, Istanbul 2021.

An up-to-date overview of cathodoluminescence microscopy and spectroscopy in the field of geosciences, including new important data on cathodoluminescence spectroscopy, physical parameters and systematic spectral analysis of doped minerals.