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Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Soil in the Field

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Advances in Soil Science

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Soil scientists have recognized variation in soil from place to place for many years. They have portrayed the variation by dividing large regions into smaller parcels each of which is relatively homogeneous, and they have classified the soil to show similarities between soil in widely separated parcels. This procedure, which may be regarded as standard soil survey practice, requires appreciation of the scale of change, the abruptness or otherwise of change, the degree of correlation among different soil properties, and of relations in the landscape. Yet that appreciation has almost always been intuitive. Good soil surveyors have needed flair. Rarely have they gained their appreciation by quantitative analysis.

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Webster, R. (1985). Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Soil in the Field. In: Stewart, B.A. (eds) Advances in Soil Science. Advances in Soil Science, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5090-6_1

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