Week 15: Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, it is one form of soil degradation. This natural process is caused by the dynamic activity of erosive agents, that is, water, ice, snow, air, plants, animals, and humans.
Types of soil erosion include
Wind erosion
Water erosion
Gravity erosion
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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
