Overview
- Offers a comprehensive overview, richly illustrated with a wealth of pictures and soil maps
- Includes a systematization of national soil classification based on the FAO-WBR system
- Especially addresses anthropogenic soil degradation
- Offers an essential field guide for soil scientists and students alike
Part of the book series: World Soils Book Series (WSBS)
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This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia. It highlights the soil-forming environment (climate, geology, geomorphology), the characterization of the physical, chemical and morphological (macro-, micro-) properties of soils, the history of soil research in Georgia, and the geographic distribution of different soil types. In addition to describing the soil cover, the book also zones and classifies the soils. Past and current land use issues, ecological properties and implications of soils, and many other aspects are elaborated on; special attention is paid to anthropogenic soil degradation due to the contamination and erosion of soils in Georgia. This comprehensive and richly illustrated book, which includes a wealth of pictures and soil maps, offers an essential field guide for soil scientists, geographers and researchers in related areas.
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Book Title: The Soils of Georgia
Editors: Lia Matchavariani
Series Title: World Soils Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18509-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18508-4Published: 06 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18511-4Published: 14 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18509-1Published: 20 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-1255
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 179
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 145 illustrations in colour