This title provides a scholarly introduction which explores the role of modern geostatistics in improved mathematical models of scientific mapping, focusing on the Bayesian maximum entropy approach for studying spatiotemporal distributions of natural variables.

"Hans Jenny's oeuvre ranks among those of the giant in the earth sciences. Even within this rarefied atmosphere of intellectual achievements, his book Factors of Soil Formation stands out as a masterpiece." from the Foreword by Ronald Amundson, University of California at Berkeley
Hans Jenny (1899 1992), who taught at the University of California at Berkeley for 31 years, was a world authority on soils and soil formation. Factors of Soil Formation, his most influential work, is an advanced treatise on theoretical soil science. It has been said that this book, long considered...