Textbook of Soil Chemistry

by Sanyal, Saroj Kumar

ISBN: 9789388027588
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 10495.00
Biblio : p.300.,figs.,tabls., ind., 25 cm

Author Profile

Professor Saroj Kumar Sanyal has brilliant academic career with undergraduate, post-graduate, Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral studies at highly reputed Institutes, namely the Presidency College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta; Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi; University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. Professor Sanyal is endowed with strong teaching skills and enjoyed teaching soil science and physical chemistry

About The Book

The present book opens its contents with the introductory ideas about the earth’s crust, rocks, minerals and soils, along with the weathering sequence and stability of the silicate minerals; soil colloids, covering the structural aspects and properties; ion-exchange processes in soil, including the theories — both thermodynamic and kinetic as well as others — and practices, and also the implications of such processes in soil; chemistry of soil acidity and salt-affected soils and their ameliorati