Minerals control many soil functions and play a crucial role in addressing global existential issues. Measuring the abundance of minerals is laborious, costly, time-consuming task; however, spectroscopy can be useful tool to overcome this issue. This work aimed map major mineralogical components soils Brazil from surface 1 m deep at spatial resolution 30 m. Spectral data Brazilian Soil Library ...

This article deals with Friedrich Albert Fallou (1794–1877), a lawyer by education strong interest for soil and geology who published “Pedologie oder allgemeine und besondere Bodenkunde” in 1862, that is, 20 years before Dokuchaev's (1883) “Russian Chernozem.” He is known having coined the term of “pedology” but his role development science needs recognition, opinions diverging this far regard ...

Soil horizon designation plays a key role in the communication of information about soils – hence need for uniformity, consistency and clarity way soil horizons are defined designated. Since its establishment late 19th century, A-B-C schema has evolved with realisation that traditional concepts genesis embedded original system do not fit breadth current knowledge regarding development. Along mo...

Weathering is a complex process comprising physical disaggregation, chemical and biological decomposition of rocks and minerals transforming complex structure minerals in simpler ones. Hydrolysis of silicates is perhaps the most important process but associated certainly to biological weathering. It is discussed the role ofwaters: activities/concentrations of chemical species, pH, Eh, importanc...

559 Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 76:2012 Posted online 6 Feb. 2012 doi:10.2136/sssaj2011.0060 Received 16 Feb. 2011. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recordi...

Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 76:766–778 doi:10.2136/sssaj2011.0407 Received 28 Nov. 2011. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storag...