Instructor(s): Judith Turk
Number of Credit Hours: 4
Cross-listings: PLAS/SOIL 477, GEOG 467, NRES 477, GEOG 867
Prerequisites: PLAS/SOIL 153
Description: Spatial relationship of soil properties on various parts of landscape typical of the Plains, causal factors, and predictions of such relationships on other landscapes. Grouping these properties into classes, naming the classes, and the taxonomy that results from this grouping. Application of a taxonomy to a real situation through making a field soil survey in a region representative of the Plains border, predicting land use response of various mapped units as it affects the ecosystem, and evaluating the effectiveness of the taxonomic system used in the region surveyed.
- Apply the conceptual frameworks used to study soil genesis.
- Describe a soil profile using standard methods and terminology.
- Interpret the information conveyed through the taxonomic naming of soils.
- Classify a soil to the family level on the basis of field and lab data.
- Explain the methods used in soil mapping.