Soil forming factors
- Authors: CERTINI G; SCALENGHE R
- Publication year: 2007
- Type: Voce (in dizionario o enciclopedia) (Voce in dizionario o enciclopedia)
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/12269
Abstract
The Russian geologist Vasily Dokuchaev (1846–1903), considered the father of soil science, was the first to identify and discuss, at the end of 19th century, what we know today as the “factors of soil formation”. He introduced the idea that soil is not something inert and stable, but it develops and evolves under the influence of climatic agents and vegetation that operate over time on a given geological substrate