The Soils Of Israel

Download or read book The Soils of Israel written by Arieh Singer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the soils of Israel, offering details of their distribution, chemical, physical, and mineralogical characteristics and agricultural attributes. The pathways to the formation of each soil type are discussed against the background of such soil-forming factors as climate, lithology and physiography. The distribution of the different soil types is explained, based on the relationships between soils and soil-forming factors. This the first reference on the topic since 1948.