Environmental Soil Chemistry

By Donald L. Sparks, Balwant Singh, Matthew G Siebecker

Book Overview

Environmental Soil Chemistry, Third Edition provides an up-to-date overview of the interdisciplinary field of environmental soil chemistry. This classic text covers the fundamental principles of soil chemistry, including the inorganic and organic components of soil, soil porewater chemistry, interfacial chemical reactions between solids and dissolved ions/molecules, ion exchange, and the kinetics of the soil chemical process, such as sorption and redox. Soil acidity and salinity are also discussed. This fully updated third edition places particular emphasis on environmental reactions between clay minerals, metal oxides, and soil organic matter with heavy metals, pesticides, and industrial contaminants. This text provides the latest technological advances representing the cutting edge of the science. Completely updated throughout with new content and updated full color figures, the third edition contains expanded information on soil minerals and an increased emphasis on the coupling between chemical and biological reactions, mechanisms, and processes. This third edition provides upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in soil science with sound contemporary training in the basics of soil chemistry and applications to real-world environmental concerns. The book offers a competitive advantage for those students looking to incorporate novel, advanced tools into their research. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0126564469
• ISBN13: 9780126564464
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

I heart soil chemistry.

Item arrived on time and in great condition. Couldn't ask for more. The book is really great an easy to understand. Great Resource book.

For a class

This was required reading for a soil water chemistry course that I took. As the course was problem-based learning, this text came in handy as a resource.

Excellent Book about Environmental Soil Chemistry

Professor Donald L. Sparks has managed to write an excellent and up-to-date book on important topics related to environmental soil chemistry. The book covers all the essential subjects needed for an in-depth understanding of all the complex soil processes that control the fate and transport of both inorganic and organic contaminants in the environment. The book also includes good descriptions of state-of-the-art instrumentations...