Published on: 1998-01
Hardcover
Brief Introduction
The newly-compiled,1:4M Soil Map of China is a nation-wide soil map which reflects the distribution law of soil in China and the charactistics of soil resources.Based on the map,the 1:10M Regionalization Map of Soil Resources Utilization and Amelioration of China is compiled in order to extend the use of the soil map.The book titled Soil Map of Chia and Regionalization of Soil Resources Utilization and Amelioration is the directions of the two maps.The book reflects the newest achievements in the scientific research on the Chinese soil classification,distribution and mapping in the 1970s-1990s.It involves two parts.
Part I discusses the geographical distribution of soils as the basis of delineation texture and delineation combination of soil map;comments upon the international trend of soil classification,the development and present situation of Chinese soil classification;simply describes the soil units in soil mapping units of Soil Map of China(1:4M);and expounds the mapping principles,characteristics of studied contents and expression of main contents in the map.
Part II based on the review of the history of soil regionalization study,advances the design thought,principles,basis and system of this regionalization map,the contents of the principal part of regionalization unit at difference levels and the compilation methods of regionalization map.As for discussion of regionalization,the national three soil regions,fourteen soil areas,seventy-five soil sub-areas are,respectively,expounded with larger space.Finally,this book has an appendix about the approximate correlation of soil names in the legend of this soil map to that of FAO-UNESCO soil map.
The maps and book will be an invaluable source of reference for the scientific researchers and teachers in agriculture,forestry,animal husbandry,hydraulics,soil,geography,biology,ecology,resource,environment, etc.
