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The Canadian system of soil classification / Soil Classification Working Group.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee. Soil Classification Working Group.
- Series:
- Publication (Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). English ; 1646.
- Publication ; 1646
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soils--Canada--Classification.
- Soils.
- Soils--Classification.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : NRC Research Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Publishing dates; Contents; Prefaces; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Soil, Pedon, Control Section, and Soil Horizons; Chapter 3 Outline of the System and a Key to the Classification of a Pedon; Chapter 4 Brunisolic Order; Chapter 5 Chernozemic Order; Chapter 6 Cryosolic Order; Chapter 7 Gleysolic Order; Chapter 8 Luvisolic Order; Chapter 9 Organic Order; Chapter 10 Podzolic Order; Chapter 11 Regosolic Order; Chapter 12 Solonetzic Order; Chapter 13 Vertisolic Order; Chapter 14 Soil Family and Series; Chapter 15 Soil Phase
- Chapter 16 - Correlation of Canadian Soil Taxonomy with Other SystemsChapter 17 - Terminology for Describing Soils; Chapter 18 Landform Classification; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Co-published by: Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610451975
- 1-4593-0063-7
- OCLC:
- 171271714
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