EBOOK Chemistry of Soils

There have been many advances in soil chemistry since Oxford published the first        edition of The Chemistry of Soils in 1989. The physical-chemistry approach to soil        chemistry taken in the book, groundbreaking for its time, has been adopted by nearly        every soil chemistry book published since. This book offers a thorough update of all        topics covered in the previous edition. In the last 16 years, soil chemistry as a        discipline has assumed major significance in connection with global climate change.          The 2nd edition addresses the emergent issue of global climate change by exploring        the interaction between organic carbon and soil. The largest repository of organic        carbon on earth is still soil, and the process by which organic carbon is        sequestered by soil, thus preventing the release of carbon dioxide into the        atmosphere, is one of the proper concerns of soil chemistry. Thus, the revision        provides a rigorous discussion of soil chemistry in its broader environmental and        biogeochemical contexts.