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Soils 519 - Nature of Soil Minerals

  • Instructor: Dr. Sridhar Komarneni
  • Credits:3
  • Semesters Offered: Fall
  • Texts: J.B. Dixon and S.B. Weed (eds.). Minerals in Soil Environments (Second Edition), Publ. by Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, 1989, pp. 1244.
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  • Syllabus: Link to PDF file.

Course Description

This is a graduate-level course in Soil Science. The basic crystal structures of the most common soil minerals are presented along with modern methods for their identification. Their relevance to soil formation, fertility, environmental protection, materials, etc. are covered.

The references for this course are given in the approximate order of their importance:

  1. Soil Chemical Analysis—Advanced Course, M.L. Jackson, Publ. by the Author, Dept. of Soils, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 (1979).
  2. J.B. Dixon and D. G. Schulze (eds.). Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications, Publ. by Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, 2002, pp. 866.
  3. Crystal Structures of Clay Minerals and Their X-Ray Idenfification (Eds. G.W. Brindley and G. Brown), Mineralogical Society, London, 1980, pp. 495.
  4. Clay Mineralogy (Second Edition), R.E. Grim, Publ. by McGraw Hill, New York, 1968, pp. 596.
  5. An Introduction to Clay Colloid Chemistry (Second Edition), H. va n Olphen, Publ. by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1977, pp. 318.