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Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology
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Soil Formation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Soil Formation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Soils form a unique and irreplaceable essential resource for all
terrestrial organisms, including man. Soils form not only the very
thin outer skin of the earth's crust that is exploited by plant
roots for anchorage and supply of water and nutrients. Soils are
complex natural bodies formed under the influence of plants,
microorganisms and soil animals, water and air from their parent
material, i.e. solid rock or unconsolidated sediments. Physically,
chemically and mineralogically they usually differ strongly from
the parent material, and normally are far more suitable as a
rooting medium for plants. In addition to serving as a substrate
for plant growth, including crops and pasture, soils play a
dominant role in the biogeochemical cycling of water, carbon,
nitrogen and other elements, influencing the chemical composition
and turnover rates of substances in the atmosphere and the
hydrosphere. Soils take decades to millennia to form. We tread on
them and do not usually see their interior, so we tend to take them
for granted. But improper and abusive agricultural management,
careless land- clearing and reclamation, man-induced erosion,
salinisation and acidification, desertification, air- and water
pollution, and withdrawal of land for housing, industry and
transportation now destroy soils more rapidly than they can be
formed.
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