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Soil and Soil Fertility
Frederick R. Troeh
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Description for Soil and Soil Fertility
Hardcover. Recommended by users for its clear explanations and readability. Troeh and Thompson's Soil; and Soil Fertility provides and excellent overview of soils for students in agriculture and the environmental sciences. Num Pages: 489 pages, 231. BIC Classification: RBGB; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 263 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1064.
Recommended by users for its clear explanations and readability. Troeh and Thompson's Soil; and Soil Fertility provides and excellent overview of soils for students in agriculture and the environmental sciences. Now in its sixth edition, this book has been updated throughout and incorporates discussions of GIS (geographic information system) and GPS (global positioning system), humus and its function in soil structure and fertility, soil reclamation for sites contaminated by pesticides or petroleum spills, and advances in the understanding of water flow. In addition a new chapter on soil mechanics has been added, explaining the use of soils as foundation and ... Read more
Recommended by users for its clear explanations and readability. Troeh and Thompson's Soil; and Soil Fertility provides and excellent overview of soils for students in agriculture and the environmental sciences. Now in its sixth edition, this book has been updated throughout and incorporates discussions of GIS (geographic information system) and GPS (global positioning system), humus and its function in soil structure and fertility, soil reclamation for sites contaminated by pesticides or petroleum spills, and advances in the understanding of water flow. In addition a new chapter on soil mechanics has been added, explaining the use of soils as foundation and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Number of pages
489
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780813809557
SKU
V9780813809557
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Ref
99-50
About Frederick R. Troeh
Frederick R. Troeh is Professor Emeritus, Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, who taught for 32 years. Dr. Troeh also worked for seven years as a soil scientist for the Soil Conservation Society in Idaho and California and served four years as a soil technologist for Cornell University in New York. Louis M. Thompson is Emeritus Associate Dean of Agriculture ... Read more
Reviews for Soil and Soil Fertility
"The sixth edition of Soils and Soil Fertility provides a thorough introduction to soil science as well as the fundamentals of soil fertility, and is an appropriate text for undergraduate students in agricultural and/or environmental sciences...Each chapter is well organized...and features boldface subheadings to assist in quickly locating topics of interest...In summary, this textbook is comprehensive, readable, and does not ... Read more