Sedimentology and pedology

The constant growth of the world's population and the decline of the availability of land and soil resources are global concerns for food security.

The purpose of this book is to give an introduction to the most important aspects of suspended matter in the aquatic environment: its origin and composition, the concentration distribution, transport and deposition, and the most important physical-chemical-bio- logical process that affects suspended matter: flocculation.

Vadose Zone Hydrology describes the elements of the physical processes most often encountered by hydrogeologists and ground-water engineers in their vadose zone projects.

This book explains the causes, mechanisms and dimension of sedimentation in theRupnarayan River, which offers a representative example of a tidal river combining fluvial and marine processes.

The book considers the riverine paleo structures of the coastal marine zone from the point of view of marine bottom seismic acoustics.

This new volume explores the revolution in the use of smart technologies in agricultural science in recent years.

This book deals with sedimentary sulfides which are the most abundant authigenic minerals in sediments.

Traditional remedial technologies can be cost-prohibitive and sometimes contribute to environmental contamination themselves.

The quality of agricultural soils are always under threat from chemical contaminants, which ultimately affect the productivity and safety of crops.

Precision farming, site infrastructure assessment, hydrologic monitoring, and environmental investigations- these are just a few current and potential uses of near-surface geophysical methods in agriculture.

This book comprehensively presents the geography of landforms linked to periglacial processes across Europe.

A concise overview of the basic physics and hydrodynamics of estuaries, with special topics at the forefront of estuarine research.

Soils are one of the world's most important resources, and their protection, maintenance, and improvement is critical to the continuance of life on earth.

This new volume addresses the global concern of environmental pollution mediated by a variety of organic, inorganic, persistent, and nonpersistent pollutants, which have a substantial detrimental impact on the structural and functional aspects of ecosystems.

For the first time a state-of-the-art of present metal pollution along the coastline of Latin America is provided.

This new edition of Soil Erosion Research Methods retains the themes and layout of the first edition.

This book examines global environmental governance and how legal, institutional, and conceptual reform can facilitate a transformation to a new 'natural-systems' form of agriculture.

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

Within the field of soil science, soil chemistry encompasses the different chemical processes that take place, including mineral weathering, humification of organic plant residues, and ionic reactions involving natural and foreign metal ions that play significant roles in soil.

This book addresses the importance of soil processes in the global carbon cycle.

Plant Growth Regulators to Manage Biotic and Abiotic Stress in Agroecosystems is a comprehensive book that explores the use of plant growth regulators (PGRs) as effective stress-reduction techniques in agricultural environments.

This richly illustrated book offers a concise overview of the geology of Egypt in the context of the geology of the Arab Region and Northeast Africa.

Water stagnation and submergence are major factors in rice growing.

This book presents an overview of the fluvial processes theory developed in the former USSR at Lomonosov Moscow State University for the last 50 years, following the famous manuscript by Professor Makkaveev in 1955.

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.

'Coal' and 'China' to some extent have become synonymous.

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.

Soil is a complex body that exists as many types, each with diverse properties that may vary widely across time and space as a function of many factors.

Provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of soil erosion throughout Europe, an important aspect to control and manage if landscapes are to be sustained for the future.

This advanced textbook describes quantitative techniques for modeling Earth surface processes in geomorphology.

Microbial Mitigation of Stress Responses of Food Legumes provides knowledge on the impact of abiotic and biotic stress on the agriculture of grain legumes especially pulses and it critically reviews the cutting-edge research in exploring plant microbe interactions to mitigate the stress.

This book, first published in 1980, collects together thirteen articles on 'Geomorphology in Arid Regions'.

This handbook series includes several naturally occurring chemicals that exhibit biological activity.

Vanadium is an essential element for humans and animals.

This book plays a significant role in improvising human life to a great extent.

The collection of papers in this volume is a direct result of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Research Symposium on "e;Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: Methods and Case Histories"e; held as part of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention in New Orleans in March 1985.

With contributions from world-renowned experts in the field, this book explores developments in the transport kinetics, seasonal cycling, accumulation, geochemistry, transformation, and toxicology of arsenic.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Compost Utilization in Production of Horticultural Crops provides information for the compost industry to develop horticulture production efforts and techniques.

The history of science discipline is contributing valuable knowledge of the culture of soil understanding, of the conditions in society that fostered the ideas, and of why they developed in certain ways.

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

This book highlights Indian scientific endeavours and contributions to answering the vast multitude of questions posed by our changing environment.

Most reported incidents of soil contamination include an array of heavy metals species rather than a single ion.

Discusses the latest information regarding the processes and mechanisms responsible for runoff and erosion by water in arable lands--detailing state-of-the-art water and soil conservation methods.

Originally published in 1990 Tropical Resources presents in-depth coverage of the extremely diverse tropical environments, the resources to be found within the region and their production, and ecological management.

Crop water use can be increased by management of surface runoff, groundwater, irrigation, and soil water.

Grazing lands represent the largest and most diverse land resource-taking up over half the earth's land surface.

An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below.

Fundamental Aspects of Pollution Control and Environmental Science, 5: Pesticides in the Soil Environment focuses on the effects of pesticide use on the quality of soil.

This volume summarizes the results of a survey of British Upper Carboniferous sites, undertaken between 1978 and 1990 as part of the Geological Conservation Review (GCR).