The Australian soil classification / R.F. Isbell (Raymond Frederick Isbell) and the National Committee on Soil and Terrain
- Bib ID:
- 8558027
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Isbell, R. F. (Raymond Frederick), 1928-2001, author
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Description:
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- Clayton South, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, [2021]
- ©2021
- x, 181 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781486314775 (paperback)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781486314782 (epdf)
- 9781486314799 (epub)
- Series:
- Australian soil and land survey handbook series ; vol. 4.
- Summary:
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"The Australian Soil Classification" provides a framework for organising knowledge about Australian soils by allocating soils to classes via a key. Since its publication in 1996, this book has been widely adopted and formally endorsed as the official national system. It has provided a means of communication among scientists and land managers and has proven to be of particular value in land resource survey and research programs, environmental studies and education.Classification is a basic requirement of all science and needs to be periodically revised as knowledge increases. This third edition of "The Australian Soil Classification" includes updates from a working group of the National Committee on Soil and Terrain (NCST). The main change in this edition accommodates new knowledge and understanding of the significance, nature, distribution and refined testing for soils comprising deep sands, leading to the inclusion of a new Order, the Arenosols. The introduction of the Arenosols Order led to a review and changes to Calcarosols, Tenosols and Rudosols." -- back cover.
- Partial contents:
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- Background
- How to classify
- Key to soil orders
- Anthroposols [AN]
- Arenosols [RE]
- Calcarosols [CA]
- Chromosols [CH]
- Dermosols [DE]
- Ferrosols [FE]
- Hydrosols [HY]
- Kandosols [KA]
- Kurosols [KU]
- Organosols [OR]
- Podosols [PO]
- Rudosols [RU]
- Sodosols [SO]
- Tenosols [TE]
- Vertosols [VE]
- Glossary
- Colour classes
- References
- Appendix 1. Use of codes and confidence levels in recording classification of soil profiles
- Appendix 2. List of codes and equivalent class names
- Appendix 3. Class names and equivalent codes and the level at which they occur in the soil orders
- Appendix 4. Analytical requirements for the Australian Soil Classification
- Appendix 5. Approximate correlations between the Australian Soil Classification order and other soil classifications
- Appendix 6. History of the development of the Australian Soil Classification
- Appendix 7. Summary of changes in the third edition.
- Notes:
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- Previous published: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154)
- Also available via the World Wide Web.
- Subject:
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- Available From:
- Australian Prepublication Data Service
- Copyright:
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- Until 2071 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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