The soils of Tocal
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Tocal College, CB Alexander Campus,
Paterson NSW 2421
This publication provides detailed information on the soils of the Tocal property. A most useful education resource for curricula in agriculture and soil sciences.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Location and area
- Part One: Soil Forming Factors
- Climate
- Parent material
- Topography
- Plants and animals
- Human activitiy
- Time
- Part Two: Soil Landscapes at Tocal
- Erosional soil landscapes
- Alluvial soil landscapes
- Colluvial soil landscapes
- Vestigial soil landscapes
- Part Three: Soil Types on Tocal
- Chromosols, Kurosols and Sodosols (Podsols)
- Rudosols and Tenosols (Lithosols)
- Hydrosols
- Black Vertosols (black clays/brown earths)
- Black Dermosols
- Red Ferrosols
- Part Four: Soils Degradation at Tocal
- Part Five: Other Soil Stories (Intensive land use on Tocal dairy - comparison of the podsolic hill soils (Kurosol) vs river flat soils (Rudosol)).
- Appendix One: Glossary of botanical and zoological names.
- Appendix Two: Tocal soil profiles and the sites from which they were taken.
- Appendix Three: Glossary of geological and soil science terms.
- References and further reading.
88 pages in full colour.
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Book details
| Title | The soils of Tocal |
|---|---|
| Pages | 84 |
| Catalogue number | B564 |
| Year of publish | 2005 |
| Price | $17.00AUD (inc GST) purchase online |