Soil science

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Course ID:	1300-OLBZ401
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.904 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0539) Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Soil science
Name in Polish:	Gleboznawstwo
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Umiejętność pracy z materiałami geograficznymi, opanowanie podstaw chemii i geologii oraz umiejętność pracy w laboratorium chemicznym.
Short description:	The description of soils; pedogenesis, development, their proprieties (physical, chemical, biological), with particular reference to formation of soil profiles and their transformations under natural influences and due to human activities, polish and EU classifications.
Full description:	Lecture: terms in the field of soil science; definition of soil, subject and development of soil science; conditions of formation of different type of soils (soil forming factors, pedogenesis, processes in soil profile, time as a factor having an influence on evolution of soil, relationships between properties of soils and climate, relationships between properties of soils and flora); morphological features of soils and principle of their description (characteristic of soil profile, soil horizons, thickness, colours, structure and texture, porosity, admixture); soils as a system of three phases (characteristic of mineral composition of soils, characteristic of organic matter, origin and evolution of organic matter, mineral-organic complexes, water in soils, chemical composition of soil solution, water capacity, soil aeration, respiration capacity of soils, chemical composition of soil air, exchange of soil air with atmospheric air, thermal relationships); physical properties (density, conciseness, plasticity); physico-chemical properties of soil (characteristic of microelements, and makroelements, sorption capacities, soil pH effects, buffering properties); soil fertility, reserve of soil components; soil fauna; degradation of soils; factors of soil degradations; genetic classification of polish soils, European and FAO/WRB classification of soils, Soil types by clay, silt and sand composition; geography of soils; cycles of soil evolution; old soils – paleopedology; Classes: 1. Grain-size composition of solis. Type and name of soil setting. Comparison of Soil Classification Systems. 2. Determination of CaCO3 content by Scheibler method. 3. Determination of organic matter content in soils: Tiurin method, H2O2 method, loss on ignition method. 4. Fractionation of organic matter. Determination of Humic and Fulvic Acid content 5. Iodometric determination of Iron 6. Determination of soil pH (Head’s method) 7. Determination of cation exchange capacity (Kappen method). 8. Soil profiles description.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Bednarek R., Prusinkiewicz Z. (1999) - Geografia gleb. Wyd. Nauk. PW, Warszawa 1999 Bednarek R., Dziadkowiec H., Pokojska U., Prusinkiewicz Z. (2004) – Badania ekologiczno-gleboznawcze. PWN, Warszawa Dobrzański B., Zawadzki S. (1999) – Gleboznawstwo. PWRiL, Warszawa Myślińska E. (2001) – Grunty organiczne i laboratoryjne metody ich badania. PWN, Warszawa Zawadzki S. (2002) – Podstawy gleboznawstwa. PWRiL, Warszawa Uggla H. (1976) – Gleboznawstwo rolnicze. PWN, Warszawa Systematyka Gleb Polski. Wyd. IV. Rocznik Gleboznawczy 40, 3/4, 1989
Learning outcomes:	After course completion student: - analyses soil properties and their evolution - identifies genetic type of soils - explicates influence of anthropogenic and natural factors on evolution of soil profiles (horizons) - determines selected physicochemical parameters of soils in the laboratory - defines interdependence between parameters - characterizes soil profiles - has knowledge about geography of soils.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Lectures: final test. Classes: final qualification practical test, reports of experiments which were made.
Practical placement:	(in Polish) brak

This course is not currently offered.

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