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Title Factors of soil formation : a system of quantitative pedology / Hans Jenny ; foreword by Ronald Amundson.
Publication Info New York : Dover, ©1994.

Location Call No. Notes Status
 Brooklyn Stacks  551.305 J545    --  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1941. With new foreword.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Definitions and concepts -- Methods of presentation of soil data -- Time as a soil-forming factor -- Parent material as a soil-forming factor -- Topography as a soil-forming factor -- Climate as a soil-forming factor -- Organisms as a soil-forming factor -- Conclusions.
Summary One of the most influential works by a world authority on soils and their formation. This advanced treatise on theoretical soil science, long considered a masterpiece of scientific methodology offers pedologists, geologists and geophysicists both a detailed discussion of the nature of the earth s terrestrial environment, and a method of subdividing and studying it.
Subject Soil formation.
ISBN 0486681289
9780486681283
OCLC # 30473103