BT5101:03
Tropical Soils
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: TA5140
23 lectures, 10 practicals, field projects. First semester.
Staff: Assoc. Professor R Coventry.
Introduction to tropical soils; weathering and soil formation; physical, chemical and biological process in soils; land resource assessment; soil classification; land degradation and remediation.
Learning Objectives:
- to introduce students to the nature of soils and soil processes;
- to discuss land management issues in tropical Australia;
- to understand the principles underlying methods used in management and remediation of soils;
- to develop practical skills in describing and classifying soils and in interpreting soil survey and land resource assessments.
Assessment by examination and/or field project, written assignment and seminar.
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