GEOL 40393 - Soils in the Environment

Prerequisite: one year of chemistry, GEOL 10143, or permission of the instructor. Two hours lecture and one three hour laboratory period per week. This course covers the formation, distribution, and classification of soils: major soil properties; field evaluation of soils; the use of soil survey information; and soil hydrology. The emphasis is on the study of soils as products of biophysical processes, and on soil properties of interest to geoscientists and natural resource managers.





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