ARIZONA SOILS

Contents

• Cover photo
• Credits page
• Verso of titlepage
• Contents
  • List of Plates
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
• Editor's Notes
  • Mohave County

• 1. Soils, What They Are and How They Form
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Definition of Soil
  • 1.3. Composition of Soils
  • 1.4. Soil Horizons
  • 1.5. Soil-forming Factors and Processes
    • 1.5.1. Factors
    • 1.5.2. Processes
• 2. Geologic Framework of Arizona
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Basin and Range Province
    • 2.2.1. General Nature of the Geology
    • 2.2.2. Evolution of Structural Features
    • 2.2.3. Geomorphology and Soils
  • 2.3. Colorado Plateau Province
    • 2.3.1. General Nature of the Geology
    • 2.3.2. Evolution of Structural Features
    • 2.3.3. Late Cenozoic Volcanism
    • 2.3.4. Geomorphology and Soils
• 3. Climate of Arizona
  • 3.1. Introduction
    • 3.1.1. Temperature
    • 3.1.2. Precipitation
  • 3.2. Arizona Climate Zones
  • 3.3. Climates of Arizona
  • 3.4. Climatic Zones of the State Soil map
  • 3.5. Soil Temperature Regimes
  • 3.6. Frost-Alternation Days in Arizona
  • 3.7. Soil Moisture Regimes
  • 3.8. Water Balance and Thornthwaite's Climatic Classification
  • 3.9. Paleoclimate
• 4. Natural Vegetation of Arizona
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Bioclimatic Classification of Vegetation
    • 4.2.1. Alpine Tundra
    • 4.2.2. Spruce-Alpine Fir Forest
    • 4.2.3. Montane Conifer Forest
    • 4.2.4. Riparian Deciduous Woodland
    • 4.2.5. Pinyon-Juniper Woodland
    • 4.2.6. Encinal and Mexican Oak-Pine Woodland
    • 4.2.7. Interior Chaparral
    • 4.2.8. Grasslands
    • 4.2.9. Desert Scrub
• 5. Animals and Soil in Arizona
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. General Role of Animals in the Soil Community
  • 5.3. Soil Fauna: Classification
  • 5.4. Role of Animals in the Soil Community
    • 5.4.1. Invertebrates
    • 5.4.2. Vertebrates
  • 5.5. Effects of Soil on Animals
    • 5.5.1. Animals That Live in the Soil
    • 5.5.2. Animals That Live on the Surface
• 6. The United States Soil Classification System and Its Application in Arizona
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Overview of Soil Taxonomy
    • 6.2.1. Diagnostic Horizons
    • 6.2.2. Categories
    • 6.2.3. Nomenclature
    • 6.2.4. Soil Individual
  • 6.3. Application to Arizona
    • 6.3.1. Orders and Suborders
    • 6.3.2. Soil Families
• 7. Description of the Mapping Units of the Arizona General Soil Map
  • 7.1. Basis and Development of the Units
  • 7.2. Mapping Unit Descriptions
    • 7.2.1. Hyperthermic Arid Soils
    • 7.2.2. Thermic Arid Soils
    • 7.2.3. Thermic Semiarid Soils
    • 7.2.4. Mesic Arid Soils
    • 7.2.5. Mesic Semiarid Soils
    • 7.2.6. Mesic Subhumid Soils
    • 7.2.7. FH Frigid Subhumid Soils

• Geologic Time Scale
• Vegetation: Common and Scientific Names
• Animals: Common and Scientific Names
• Outline of Soil Taxonomy
• Description of Soil Series
  • Soils Descriptions
• Glossary
• List of References
• Index
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• Plates