The soils of South Australia (Book)

This book covers the landscape and soil information for South Australia. It contains information on soil type and categories, soil mapping and contains soil profile descriptions from all areas of South Australia and is the first complete and comprehensive coverage of land and soil data from South Australia. This book is available in a print edition [430 pages] or can be downloaded as two separate PDF sections for free [79 MB, 44 MB]. #

Contents:
Introduction
How soil variability is described in South Australia
Soil formation and processes
Soil group chapters

Resource Last Updated: August 9, 2023

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