Soils as a Key Component of the Critical Zone 3: Soils and Water Circulation

This book invites the reader to look differently at two seemingly mundane resources: soil and water. Water possesses extraordinary properties which form the foundations of life itself. Without water, there would be no life, and without soils, no terrestrial life. The interaction between soils and water is therefore fundamental to the habitability of Earth’s land surface.

Through in-depth analyses and experimentation, Soils as a Key Component of the Critical Zone 3 explores the circulation o...