Section of Soil and Crop Science PLSCS 2600 Soil Science
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Syllabus - Unit One

Soil Information

After completion of this unit, you should be able to identify and distinguish important soil properties, relate the major soil forming processes to soil properties, as well as interpret and utilize systems for communicating information about soils.

Readings for this section

The unit will encompass the following subject areas:

Topic	Subject Areas
Landscape of the Finger Lakes	Glaciers and Lakes
Soil Architecture	Texture Color Structure
Soil Formation	Parent Material Relief (topography and orientation) Biota Climate Time
Soil Processes	Additions Losses Translocation Transformation
Weathering	Physical Chemical
Soil Mapping and Soil Information	Soil surveys Land Evaluation SSURGO and STATSGO Databases
Soil Morphology	Diagnostic horizons and features Nomenclature
Soil Classification	Classification systems Soil orders through soil series
Soil Water	Capillary Activity - Adhesion and Cohesion Water Potential Water Movement - saturated vs. unsaturated Runoff, Infiltration, Storage and Loss Soil Solution

Flip Notes

Video links & Lecture PDFs

Introduction and Landscape History

Video 1 with PDF1 and PDFLandHist

Soil Architecture

Video 2 with PDF2 and Video 3 with PDF3

Soil Formation

Video 4 with PDF4

Soil Processes

Video 5 with PDF5

Weathering

Video 6 with PDF6

Mapping

Video 7 with PDF7

Soil Morphology, Classification and Taxonomy

Video 8, Video 9 and Video 10 with PDF8, 9 and 10

Soil Classification Crib Sheet

2014 NRCS Soil Taxonomy

Soil Water -

Video 11 and Video 12 with PDF11 and 12

Primer video 1

Primer video 2

Prelim Review Video 15

Prelim 1 Review on September 26^th

Prelim 1 on September 28^th

Past Prelim Questions

Readings

1) Yaalon, Dan H. 2000. "Down to earth: Why soil- and soil science- matters." Nature 407, pg. 301. Access through the Cornell Library e-journal website.

2) Text: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 19

3) Ode to Water

4) There are also specific reading in the text associated with the labs.

PLSCS 2600 Soil Science

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