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1 online resource (202 pages) |
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""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Publishing dates""; ""Contents""; ""Prefaces""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""History of Soil Classification in Canada""; ""The early years, 1914-1940""; ""From 1940 to 1996""; ""Rationale of Soil Taxonomy in Canada""; ""The nature of soil""; ""Nature and purpose of soil classification""; ""Misconceptions about soil taxonomy""; ""Attributes of the Canadian system""; ""Bases of criteria for defining taxa at various categorical levels""; ""Relationship of taxonomic classes to environments"" |
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""Relationship of the Canadian system to other systems of soil taxonomy""""Summary""; ""Chapter 2 Soil, Pedon, Control Section, and Soil Horizons""; ""Soil and Nonsoil""; ""Pedon, the Basic Unit of Soil""; ""Control Section""; ""Mineral soils""; ""Organic soils""; ""Soil Horizons and Other Layers""; ""Mineral horizons and layers""; ""Lowercase suffixes""; ""Named diagnostic horizons and layers of mineral soils""; ""Organic horizons""; ""Named layers and materials of Organic soils""; ""Tests for distinguishing organic layers""; ""von Post scale of decomposition"" |
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""Rules concerning horizon and layer designations""""Need for precise definitions of horizons and layers""; ""Chapter 3 Outline of the System and a Key to the Classification of a Pedon""; ""Outline of the System""; ""Classifying a Pedon""; ""Key to Soil Orders""; ""Key to Soil Great Groups""; ""Key to Soil Subgroups""; ""Chapter 4 Brunisolic Order""; ""Distinguishing Brunisolic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""; ""Melanic Brunisol""; ""Eutric Brunisol""; ""Sombric Brunisol""; ""Dystric Brunisol""; ""Chapter 5 Chernozemic Order"" |
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""Distinguishing Chernozemic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""""Brown Chernozem""; ""Dark Brown Chernozem""; ""Black Chernozem""; ""Dark Gray Chernozem""; ""Chapter 6 Cryosolic Order""; ""Turbic Cryosol""; ""Static Cryosol""; ""Organic Cryosol""; ""Chapter 7 Gleysolic Order""; ""Distinguishing Gleysolic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""; ""Luvic Gleysol""; ""Humic Gleysol""; ""Gleysol""; ""Chapter 8 Luvisolic Order""; ""Distinguishing Luvisolic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""; ""Gray Brown Luvisol""; ""Gray Luvisol""; ""Chapter 9 Organic Order"" |
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""Distinguishing Organic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""""Fibrisol""; ""Mesisol""; ""Humisol""; ""Folisol""; ""Chapter 10 Podzolic Order""; ""Distinguishing Podzolic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""; ""Humic Podzol""; ""Ferro-Humic Podzol""; ""Humo-Ferric Podzol""; ""Chapter 11 Regosolic Order""; ""Distinguishing Regosolic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""; ""Regosol""; ""Humic Regosol""; ""Chapter 12 Solonetzic Order""; ""Distinguishing Solonetzic Soils from Soils of Other Orders""; ""Solonetz""; ""Solodized Solonetz""; ""Solod""; ""Vertic Solonetz""; ""Chapter 13 Vertisolic Order"" |
| Summary |
This revised publication replaces The Canadian System of Soil Classification (second edition) published in 1987. The changes incorporated in this current publication are based on the work of the Soil Classification Working Group (SCWG) formerly of the Expert Committee on Soil Survey, and continued by the Land Resource Division of the former Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research. Current taxonomic activities are part of the Land Resources Program of the Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario. Highlights of the third edition: A tenth order, Vertisolic, has bee |
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""Distinguishing Vertisolic Soils from Soils of Other Orders"" |
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Print version record |
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Soils -- Canada -- Classification
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Soils -- Classification.
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Soils
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Canada
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Classification
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781459300637 |
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1459300637 |
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