Week 3: Mineralogical organization of soil colloids
Types of layer silicate clays
1. 1:1 type layer silicate clays
2. 2:1 type layer silicate clays
3. 2:1:1 type layer silicate clays
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Course Material
- Week 1: Time table
- Week 1: Introduction to Soil Science-II (SAES-5802)
- Week 1: Soil Colloids, properties
- Week 1: Types of soil colloids
- Week 2: Sources of charges on soil colloids
- Week 3: Mineralogical organization of soil colloids
- Week 4: Ion exchange
- Week 5: Cation and anion exchange capacity
- Week 6: Basic cation saturation percentage
- Week 7: Soil pH and Buffering capacity
- Week 8: Soil organic matter
- Week 9: Soil organic matter: sources, composition and functions
- Week 10: Essential elements for plants
- Week 11: Nitrogen; Nitrogen cycle
- Week 12: Phosphorus functions, importance and cycle
- Week 13: Salt-affected soils
- Week 14: Waterlogged soils
- Week 15: Soil erosion
- Week 16: Environmental impact of agricultural waste
- Week 16: Environmental impact of industrial waste
- Practicals: Determination of NPK percentages from given samples of fertilizers
- Chapters 21
- Department College of Agriculture
- Teacher
Dr. Noor-us-Sabah
