Soil survey manual
by Soil Science Division Staff
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- Fourth edition
- Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : United States Department of Agriculture, 2017
- Distribution:
- [Washington, D.C.] : [For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office]
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- Summary:
- The newly updated Soil Survey Manual, USDA Handbook No. 18, provides the major principles and practices needed for making and using soil surveys and for assembling and using related data. The Manual serves as a guiding document for activities of the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS). Previously published in 1937, 1951, and 1993, the Soil Survey Manual is one of the defining documents for soil survey in the world.
- Table of Contents:
- Soil and soil survey
- Landscapes, geomorphology, and site description
- Examination and description of soil profiles
- Soil mapping concepts
- Digital soil mapping
- Tools for proximal soil sensing
- Soil survey data collection, management, and dissemination
- Interpretations: the impact of soil properties on land use
- Assessing dynamic soil properties and soil change
- Subaqueous soil survey
- Human-altered and human-transported soils
- Appendix 1: Official soil series description
- Appendix 2: Detailed map unit description
- Appendix 3: NCSS soil characterization database
- Appendix 4: Web soil survey.
- Author/Creator:
- United States Natural Resources Conservation Service > Soil Science Division , author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- "Issued March 2017."
"This manual is a revision and enlargement of U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook No. 18, the Soil Survey Manual, previously issued October 1962 and October 1993. This version supersedes both previous versions."
Shipping list no.: 2017-0026-S.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available on the Internet. - Physical Description:
- xxix, 603 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- A 1.76:18/2017
- SuDocs Numbers:
- A 1.76:18/2017
- ISBNs:
- 9780160937439 (hardcover)
0160937434 (hardcover) - Other Standard Numbers:
- Government Printing Office Item Number: 0003
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2017380460
- OCLC Numbers:
- 990268432