Course detail

LSO5845 - Soil Genesis and Morphology


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
4
4
12
15 weeks
180 hours

Instructor
Pablo Vidal Torrado

Objective
Provide deepening in pedology, giving emphasis to pedogenetic processes and their morphological manifestations, looking to understand the main soil-landscape relationships in the tropical environment.

Content
The Soil Concept. History of Pedology. Factors of Soil Formation: emphasis on soil-material, soil-climate and soil-geomorphology relationships; pedology-geomorphology-stratigraphy-hydrology; organisms and soil formation. Physical, chemical and biological processes in soil formation. Soil morphology in different scales of observation: macro and micromorphology. Characteristics, specific formation processes and soil-landscape relationships of: Latossolos, Nitossolols, Luvissolos, Argissolos, Planossolos, Cambissolos, Espodossolos, Plinthossolos, Gleissolos, Organossolos, Vertissolos, Chernossolos and Neossolos.

Bibliography
BUOL, S.W.; SOUTHARD, R.J.; GRAHAM, R.C. & McDANIEL, P.A. Soil Genesis and Classification. John Wiley & Sons. Sixt edition. 2011.
SCHAETZL, R. & THOMPSON, M. Soils Genesis and Geomorphology. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press. New York, 2015. 817p.
Van BREMEEN, N. & BUURMAN, P. Soil Formation. Second Edition, Kluwer Publishers, 2002, 404p.
Bibliografia Complementar:
BOULET, R.; CHAUVEL, A.; HUMBEL, F.X. & LUCA, Y. Analyse estructurale et cartographie en pédologie. Cah. ORSTOM Ser. Pédol., 19:309-351, 1982.
BRADY, N.C. & WEIL, R.R. Elementos da Natureza e Propriedades dos Solos Tradução técnica: Igo Fernando Lepsch. Porto Alegre, bookman, 2013, 686p.
CURI, N; KER, J.C.; SCHAEFER, C.E.G.R. & VIDAL-TORRADO. Pedologia: Solos dos Biomas Brasileiros. Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, Viçosa, 2017.
EMBRAPA, Sistema Brasileiro de Classificação. 4ª. Edição revista e ampliada. 2018. 353p.
FAO. World Reference Base for Soil Resources. FAO/ISSS/ISRIC, Roma. (FAO. World Soil Resources Reports, 84).2006. 145p
IBGE. Coordenação de Recursos Naturais e Estudos Ambientais. Manual Técnico de Pedologia, 2ª Edição. 2007
KER, J.C., CURI, N. SCHAEFER, C.E.G.R. & VIDAL-TORRADO, P. Pedologia, Fundamentos. Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, Viçosa, 2012, 343p
SANTOS, R.D., LEMOS, R.C., SANTOS, H.G., KER, J.C. ANJOS, L.H.C., SHIMIZU, S.H. . Manual de descrição e coleta de solos no campo. Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, Viçosa, 2013, 100p.
USDA. Soil survey Staff. Soil Taxonomy. A Basic System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys. Sexond Edition, 1999, 869p.
Artigos publicados nos periódicos Soil Science Society of America Journal, Geoderma, Catena, European Journal of Soil Science e outros periódicos internacionais da Ciência do Solo e correlatos.