ISRIC - World Soil Information Database
© European Communities, 1995-2007 | Since its beginning in 1966, ISRIC - World Soil Information has built up a collection of more than 20.000 articles, country reports, books and maps with emphasis on the developing countries. The subject emphasis is on soils, but related geographic information on climate, geology, geomorphology, vegetation, land use, and land suitability is also important. The map collection contains over 6000, mainly small-scale (1:250.000 or smaller) maps. more... |
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Many of these maps are completed by reports and related thematic and derived maps.
The collection is housed at Duivendaal 9, 6701 AR Wageningen, The Netherlands and is publicly accessible. The references of all items in the collection are included in the ISRIC - World Soil Information Database. New items are added regularly.
The functionality of the ISRIC - World Soil Information Database is being improved in collaboration with Wageningen UR library. New Features include: on-line access to over 3600 digital maps that can be down-loaded at high resolution and viewed on screen with a zoom facility; over 600 full-text reports in PDF format; country-specific searches based on Google maps, as well as basic and advanced search facility.
The website of the ISRIC - World Soil Information Database provides access to links of databases, national and international organizations, electronic books, newsletters , journals, and reference materials related to soil science.
Five thousand maps in the ISRIC collection scanned as a foundation for the European Digital Archive of Soil Maps (EuDASM) are available through the website of the ISRIC - World Soil Database as well. | |
May 27, 2009
Regolith Science
This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith science describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation. It provides details for mapping regolith landforms, as well as objective information on applications in mineral exploration and natural resource management. Regolith Science also provides a concise history of weathering through time in Australia. It includes previously unpublished information on elemental abundances in regolith materials along with detailed information on soil degradation processes such as in acid sulfate soils.
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