Interpreting Soil Test Results: What Do All the Numbers Mean?

by Pam Hazelton (Editor), Brian Murphy (Editor)

Overview

Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference for those who need to interpret results from laboratory analysis of soil. It has a comprehensive listing of the soil properties relevant to most environmental and natural land resource issues and investigations. The precursor to this book, What Do All the Numbers Mean?, known as The Numbers Book, was widely used and accepted for interpreting soil test results. This new edition has been completely updated and many sections have been expanded, particularly those on acid sulfate soils and soil salinity. It is a handy and straightforward guide to interpretation of the numbers associated with a wide range of soil tests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780643099159
Publisher:	CSIRO PUBLISHING
Publication date:	04/26/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Pam Hazelton has worked as a soil scientist for over 35 years. She lectures in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney. In recent years her interests have been in urban and coastal soils with an emphasis on environmental engineering.

Brian Murphy has worked as a soil scientist for over 30 years, with a strong focus on applied soil science. He is an experienced pedologist and provides day-to-day advice on the management of soils for a range of natural resource issues.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Soil sampling issues: aspects of design and implementation of soil investigations
2. Soil physical properties
3. Soil properties and soil behaviour for engineering
4. Soil erodibility and erosion hazard
5. Soil chemical properties
6. Organic matter content of soils
7. Application of waste-water and waste materials to soils
8. Soil contamination
9. Units and conversions
10. General and technical suggested references
11. References
Appendix 1 – Assessing soil texture using field behaviour of moist soil
Index

Editorial Reviews

Review of the Second Editon:
“Interpreting Soil Test Results is a handy compendium. Soil scientists who write for clients and the clients who read their reports...should find this book valuable.

European Journal of Soil Science

"Here in this updated and expanded edition they have broadened their canvas to embrace all of Australia and in doing so have made it relevant to much of the rest of the world."

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