A Textbook of Soil Chemistry

The present book opens its contents with the introductory ideas about the earth's crust, rocks, minerals and soils, along with the weathering sequences and stability of the silicate minerals, soil colloids, covering the structural aspects and properties, ion-exchange processes in soil, including the theories-both thermodynamic and kinetic as well as others-and practices, chemistry of soil acidity and salt-affected soils and their amelioration, soil organic matter, including its chemistry, influence on soil properties metal-humic interactions and clay-humus complex, chemistry of phosphorus including the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects as well as its availability in soil as plant nutrient, chemistry of micronutrients in soil, chemistry of waterlogged soils, transport processes in soil. The book is written to address the requirement of the course curricula in soil chemistry for the post-graduate and Ph.D students.