Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook
Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbooks Series Fourth Edition By: National Committee on Soil and Terrain
This fourth edition specifies methods, standards and terminology for soil and land surveys.
The Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook specifies methods and terminology for soil and land surveys. It is widely used throughout Australia, providing the official source of definitions and codes for the characterisation of landform, vegetation, land surface, soil and substrate. + Full description
This fourth edition incorporates significant revisions throughout, except for the Substrate chapter. Changes include the removal of redundant concepts, clarification of concepts and introduction of new concepts, as well as some restructuring of text. There has also been significant addition of text to some sections to fill in gaps and improve clarity of key concepts.
Specific updates include new terms added to the Landform chapter; a significant rewrite of the Vegetation chapter to make it more compliant with national standards and methods that have emerged in the last decade; and rearrangement of microrelief and expansion of the mass movement section in the Land Surface chapter.
Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook is Volume 1 in the Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbook Series.
- Short descriptionNews
This fourth edition is publishing December 2024. Need your copy sooner? The Third Edition is still available to purchase as an eBook.
Details
Paperback | December 2024 | $ 69.99ISBN: 9781486317660 | 228 pages | 245 x 170 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Illustrations
Features
- Allows for systematic recording of field observations.
- Lists attributes necessary to describe landform, vegetation, land surface soil and substrate.
- Definitions of attributes, terms and categories are internationally consistent but particular emphasis is given to Australian conditions.
- Suggests codings for attributes, terms and categories to allow concise recording systems to be developed for field use.
- This new edition contains updates to terminology in the Landform chapter, significant changes to the Vegetation chapter and clarification of key concepts across the manuscript.
Contents
CitationPreface to the fourth edition
Acknowledgements
Purpose and use of the Field Handbook
JG Speight, RF Isbell and AJW Biggs
The site concept
JG Speight, RC McDonald and AJW Biggs
General
RC McDonald, RF Isbell and AJW Biggs
Location
LJ Gregory, RC McDonald, RF Isbell and AJW Biggs
Landform
JG Speight, AJW Biggs and D Morand
Vegetation
D Lewis, E Addicott, N Cuff, A Kitchener, D Lynch, K Zdunic, A West, J Balmer and B Sparrow
Land surface
RC McDonald, RF Isbell and JG Speight
Soil profile
RC McDonald, RF Isbell and AJW Biggs
Substrate
JG Speight and RF Isbell
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Index
View the full table of contents (PDF, 53 KB).
Authors
The National Committee on Soil and Terrain (NCST) is comprised of representatives from key federal, state and territory agencies.
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