Week 5: Factors of soil formation (Climate, Living Organism, Parent Material, Topography and Time)
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Course Material
- Week 1: Course File for SES-307, Time Table for Fall Semester 2020, Introduction and importance of the course (Weathering of rocks and minerals)
- Week 2: Soil profile description. Criteria for selecting site for soil profile description.
- Week 3: Factors affecting the weathering of rocks and minerals.
- Week 4: Effect of different types of parent material on soil formation
- Week 5: Factors of soil formation (Climate, Living Organism, Parent Material, Topography and Time)
- Week 6: Processes of soil formation
- Week 7: Pedogenic processes (Decomposition, synthesis, mineralization, immobilization, humification, ripening, eluviations)
- Week 8:Pedogenic processes (illuviation, pedotubation, Pedogenic processes (lessivage, calcification, paludization)
- Week 9: Soil morphology (horizon, profile, pedon, polypedon, digonestic horizon.
- Week 10: Master horizons, Transitional horizons, Subordinate distinctions
- Week 11: Field trips
- Week 12: Epipedons used as criteria in soil morphology
- Week 13: Endopedons used as criteria in soil morphology
- Week 14: Soil characteristics used in soil morphology
- Week 15: Soil moisture and temperature regimes
- Week 16: Soil profile description, components of soil profile description and soil properties used soil profile description
- Chapters 16
- Department Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Muhammad Zeeshan Manzoor
