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A Handbook of Soil Terminology, Correlation and Classification
Edited by Pavel Krasilnikov, Juán-José Ibáñez Marti, Richard Arnold and Serghei Shoba
Earthscan
October 2009
Hardback 448 pp ISBN 9781844076833
£99.00
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Soil classification and terminology are fundamental issues for the clear understanding and communication
of the subject. However, while there are many national soil classification systems, these do not directly correlate
with each other. This leads to confusion and great difficulty in undertaking comparative scientific research that draws
on more than one system and in making sense of international scientific papers using a system that is unfamiliar to the
reader. This book aims to clarify this position by describing and comparing different systems and evaluating them in
the context of the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources. The latter was set up to resolve these problems
by creating an international "umbrella" system for soil correlation. All soil scientists should then classify soils using
the WRB as well as their national systems. The book is a definitive and essential reference work for all
students studying soils as part of life, earth or environmental sciences, as well as professional soil scientists.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Theoretical Bases of Soil Classifications
- Introduction to Classifications with an Emphasis on Soil Taxonomies
- Soil Classifications: Their Peculiarity, Diversity and Correlation
- The Structures of Soil Classifications
Part II: Soil Classifications and their Correlations
- World Reference Base for Soil Resources - A Tool for International Soil Correlation
- The United States Soil Taxonomy
- Soil Classification of Canada
- French Soil Classification System
- Soil Classification of the United Kingdom
- German Soil Classification
- Soil Classification of Austria
- Soil Classification of Switzerland
- Soil Classification of the Netherlands
- Soil Classification of Poland
- Soil Classification of Czech Republic
- Soil Classification of Slovakia
- Soil Classification of Hungary
- Soil Classification of Romania
- Soil Classification of Bulgaria
- Soil Classification and Diagnostics of the Former Soviet Union, 1977
- Russian Soil Classification, 2006
- Soil Classifications of the New Independent States
- Soil Classification of Israel
- Soil Classification of People's Republic of China
- Soil Classification of Japan
- Soil Classification of Brazil
- Soil Classification of Cuba
- Australian Soil Classification
- Soil Classification of New Zealand
- Soil Classification of Ghana
- Soil Classification of South African Republic
- Outdated, Extinct and Underdeveloped Classifications
- Classifications of Paleosols
- A Review of World Soil Classifications
Part III: Folk Soil Classifications
- Ethnopedology and Folk Soil Classifications
- Folk Soil Terminology, Listed by Regions
Index
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