Soil Clays: Linking Geology, Biology, Agriculture, and the Environment

by Bruce Velde and G. Jock Churchman

As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and intensify. Soils are essential for the sustenance of almost all plants and animals, including humans, but soils are virtually infinitely variable. Clays are the most reactive and interactive inorganic compounds in soils. Clays in soils often differ from pure clay minerals of geological origin. They provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032091959
• ISBN13: 9781032091952
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 276 Pages