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• 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