The Soils of Tocal

This publication provides detailed information on the soils of the Tocal property. A most useful education resource for curricula in agriculture and soil sciences.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Location and area
• Part One: Soil Forming Factors
• Climate
• Parent material
• Topography
• Plants and animals
• Human activitiy
• Time
• Part Two: Soil Landscapes at Tocal
• Erosional soil landscapes
• Alluvial soil landscapes
• Colluvial soil landscapes
• Vestigial soil landscapes
• Part Three: Soil Types on Tocal
• Chromosols, Kurosols and Sodosols (Podsols)
• Rudosols and Tenosols (Lithosols)
• Hydrosols
• Black Vertosols (black clays/brown earths)
• Black Dermosols
• Red Ferrosols
• Part Four: Soils Degradation at Tocal
• Part Five: Other Soil Stories (Intensive land use on Tocal dairy - comparison of the podsolic hill soils (Kurosol) vs river flat soils (Rudosol)).
• Appendix One: Glossary of botanical and zoological names.
• Appendix Two: Tocal soil profiles and the sites from which they were taken.
• Appendix Three: Glossary of geological and soil science terms.
• References and further reading.

88 pages in full colour.

Please quote catalogue no. B564 when ordering.