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Pedology1 as a Branch of Geology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Gilbert Wooding Robinson
Gilbert Wooding Robinson
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(Adviser in Agricultural Chemistry, University Coll. of N. Wales, Bangor).
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To the geologist the soil is an inconvenient mantle hiding the more important material which he wishes to study. Even the drift geologist, who is more particularly interested in superficial deposits, generally dismisses the soil as lying above his zone of interest. Yet the processes which go on in the soil horizons have an importance apart from their significance in practical agriculture. The study of soils has, perhaps, suffered from its close relationship to practical affairs, for it has naturally been left to the agricultural chemist, who has been obliged to approach it with an applied bias. We have in our own country scarcely any research in which the material is treated from a purely scientific point of view and studied in the same way as rocks have been studied by geologists.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 61 , Issue 10 , October 1924 , pp. 444 - 455
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1924

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The writer ventures to hope that this convenient term (Gr. πéδov = soil or earth) will be more generally used to describe the scientific study of soils. There seems to be no satisfactory alternative.

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