Course Material
- Week 1: Time table
- Week 1: Introduction to course contents
- Week 2: Introduction to Soil and environment: definition of earth, geology and soil science; disciplines of soil science; lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere
- Week 3: Soil forming rocks, types
- Week 4: Soil Minerals
- Week 5 : Weathering of rocks and minerals: definition. Agents and classification
- Week 6: Weathering of rocks and minerals: Chemical weathering
- Week 7: Parent materials: definition and types
- Week 8: Soil formation: definitions, processes and factors
- Week 9: Soil forming processes
- Week 10: Factors of soil formation
- Week 11: Soil profile: definition and description
- Week 12: Physical properties of soil and their significance
- Week 13: Physical properties of soil and their significance
- Week 14: Introduction to soil classification
- Week 15: Introduction to land capability classification
- Week 16: Soil, water and air pollution: sources and types
- Chapters 17
- Department College of Agriculture
- Teacher
Dr. Noor-us-Sabah