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Download or read book The Physical Chemistry and Mineralogy of Soils written by Charles Edmund Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1 - Soil materials - Physical chemistry in its application to soil systems; Mineralogy and chemistry of sand and silt; The colloidal menerals of soil; The nature and physicochemical properties of soil humic matter; Molecular adsorption by soil materials; Electrochemical properties of the clays; Ionic exchange reactions; Fixation reactions; Electrokinetic and mechanical properties of clay suspensions and pastes. v. 2 - Soils in place - Pedology in relation to physicochemical and mineralogical processes; Early stages in rock weathering; Hydrothermal synthesis of minerals in relation to pedology; The chemical expression of climatic factors; Quantitative aspects of soil profiles; Characterization of the pedological environmental and its products: physical and chemical methods as applied to soil profiles; Physical description of soil profiles; Mineralogical analysis; Chemical analysis of soils and soil fractions; Ionic properties of the exchenge complex and the soil solution.