E-raamat: Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation

"Soil formation through biogeochemical weathering is a fundamental process in the establishment of vegetation on continents as well as in the global carbon and nitrogen cycles, with further relevance to climate change and mass extinctions. The fate of water arriving at the terrestrial surface is concluded at shallow depths, mostly within the top few meters, where plants and the sun extract water through the processes of evapo-transpiration, and the remainder runs off or replenishes groundwater. Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering and Soil Formation focuses on a vast range of time and spatial scales involved in soil processes, as well as its complexity and many-faceted nature"--

Explores soil as a nexus for water, chemicals, and biologically coupled nutrient cycling

Soil is a narrow but critically important zone on Earth’s surface. It is the interface for water and carbon recycling from above and part of the cycling of sediment and rock from below. 

Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation places chemical weathering and soil formation in its geological, climatological, biological and hydrological perspective.

Volume highlights include:

• The evolution of soils over 3.25 billion years
• Basic processes contributing to soil formation
• How chemical weathering and soil formation relate to water and energy fluxes
• The role of pedogenesis in geomorphology
• Relationships between climate soils and biota
• Soils, aeolian deposits, and crusts as geologic dating tools
• Impacts of land-use change on soils

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