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Soil Clays - Linking Geology, Biology, Agriculture, and the Environment (Hardcover)
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Soil Clays - Linking Geology, Biology, Agriculture, and the Environment (Hardcover)
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As the human population grows from seven billion toward an
inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of
soils will grow and intensify. Soils are essential for the
sustenance of almost all plants and animals, including humans, but
soils are virtually infinitely variable. Clays are the most
reactive and interactive inorganic compounds in soils. Clays in
soils often differ from pure clay minerals of geological origin.
They provide a template for most of the reactive organic matter in
soils. They directly affect plant nutrients, soil temperature and
pH, aggregate sizes and strength, porosity and water-holding
capacities. This book aims to help improve predictions of important
properties of soils through a modern understanding of their highly
reactive clay minerals as they are formed and occur in soils
worldwide. It examines how clays occur in soils and the role of
soil clays in disparate applications including plant nutrition,
soil structure, and water-holding capacity, soil quality, soil
shrinkage and swelling, carbon sequestration, pollution control and
remediation, medicine, forensic investigation, and deciphering
human and environmental histories. Features: Provides information
on the conditions that lead to the formation of clay minerals in
soils Distinguishes soil clays and types of clay minerals Describes
clay mineral structures and their origins Describes occurrences and
associations of clays in soil Details roles of clays in
applications of soils Heavily illustrated with photos, diagrams,
and electron micrographs Includes user-friendly description of a
new method of identification To know soil clays is to enable their
use toward achieving improvements in the management of soils for
enhancing their performance in one or more of their three main
functions of enabling plant growth, regulating water flow to
plants, and buffering environmental changes. This book provides an
easily-read and extensively-illustrated description of the nature,
formation, identification, occurrence and associations,
measurement, reactivities, and applications of clays in soils.
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