This totally revised and expanded reference-text critically reviews a wide range of methods for soil physical analysis, considering application accuracy, measurement time, and cost of equipment, as well as providing examples of applications.

Providing practical guidelines for the selection of appropriate measurement techniques for particular applications, Soil and Environmental Analysis: Physical Methods

• Presents new chapters on the measurement of infiltration, soil strength, friability, and on soil profile evaluation and description
• Covers current topics in soil–atmosphere exchange of environmentally important gases, including radon and greenhouse gases
• Discusses time- and frequency-domain systems for water content measurement
• describes the latest use of logging techniques for measurement of water content, matric potential, penetrometry, and soil thermal properties
• Plus many more topics!

Including methods for saturated and unsaturated hydraulic activity, root growth, and particle size analysis, Soil and Environmental Analysis: Physical Methods, Second Edition is an indispensable reference for soil and environmental scientists and chemists; agronomists; agricultural engineers; foresters; geochemists; ecologists; plant scientists; specialists in plant nutrition and soil mineralogy; and an important text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

1. Soil Water Content
2. Matric Potential
3. Water Release Characteristic
4. Hydraulic Conductivity of Saturated Soils
5. Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity
6. Infiltration
7. Particle Size Analysis
8. Bulk Density
9. Liquid and Plastic Limits
10. Penetrometer Techniques in Relation to Soil Compaction and Root Growth
11. Tensile Strength and Friability
12. Root Growth: Methods of Measurement
13. Gas Movement and Air-Filled Porosity
14. Soil Temperature Regime
15. Soil Profile Description and Evaluation

Index

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