Soils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account of South African soils. The book arranges more than seventy soil forms into fourteen groups and then provides, for each group: maps showing their distribution and abundance throughout South Africa descriptions of morphological, chemical and physical properties a detailed account of classification and its correlation with international systems a discussion of soil genesis which includes a review of relevant research papers appraisal of soil quality from a land use perspective as well as for its...