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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn435620287
037 $bCSIRO Publishing, PO Box 1139 Collingwood VIC 3066
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110 2 $aNational Committee on Soil and Terrain (Australia)
245 10 $aAustralian soil and land survey :$bfield handbook /$cThe National Committee on Soil and Terrain.
250 $a3rd ed.
260 $aCollingwood, Vic. :$bCSIRO Pub.,$cc2009.
300 $axvii, 246 p. :$bill., charts ;$c23 cm.
490 0 $aAustralian soil and land survey handbook handbook series ;$vv. 1
500 $a"First edition 1984; second edition 1990"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.
505 0 $aPurpose and use of handbook / J.G. Speight and R.F. Isbell -- The site concept / J.G. Speight and R.C. McDonald -- Location / L.J. Gregory, R.C. McDonald and R.F. Isbell -- General / R.C. McDonald and R.F. Isbell -- Landform / J.G. Speight -- Vegetation / R.J. Hnatiuk, R. Thackway and J. Walker -- Land surface / R.C. McDonald, R.F. Isbell and J.G. Speight -- Soil profile / R.C. McDonald and R.F. Isbell -- Substrate / J.G. Speight and R.F. Isbell -- App. 1: Soil taxonomic units / R.F. Isbell and R.C. McDonald.
520 $a"This handbook specifies methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land survey investigations related to practical problems of land use and the scientific study of land and soil. It has been widely used and adopted as a standard throughout Australia, providing one reference set of definitions for the characterisation of landform and vegetation and for the description of soils. The book advocates that a comprehensive suite of land and soil attributes be recorded in a uniform manner. This approach is held to be more useful than the allocation of land or soil to preconceived types or classes. Its usefulness is enhanced where computer facilities are available. This revised edition contains significant changes to the Vegetation chapter and revisions to the Location chapter bringing it up-to-date with the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and changes to the Substrate chapter relating to the regolith."--Provided by publisher.
520 $aContains significant changes to the Vegetation chapter and revisions to the Location chapter bringing it up-to-date with the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and changes to the Substrate chapter relating to the regolith.
536 $a"Prepared under the auspices of the National Committee on Soil and Terrain with funding and support from CSIRO, the Natural Heritage Trust and the Bureau of Rural Sciences."--P. [ix].
650 0 $aLandforms$zAustralia$vClassification$vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 $aSoil surveys$zAustralia$vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 $aLand use surveys$zAustralia$vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 $aVegetation classification$zAustralia$vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
653 $aSoil science (Australia)
710 2 $aCSIRO Publishing.
776 1 $tAustralian soil and land survey field handbook$w(OCoLC)434595683