LECTURE SCHEDULE

SOILS 362/562 - SPRING 2008

WEEK #

DATES

LECTURE TOPICS

1

1/22 - 1/25 Introduction - Chapter 1

2

1/28 - 2/1 Morphology - Chapter 2

3

2/4 - 2/8 Composition and characterization - Chapter 2

  4  

2/11 - 2/15 Weathering  - Chapter 3

5

2/18 - 2/22 Biogeochemical Processes - Chapter 3 
EXAM #1 (2/21) - over Ch. 1-3 and labs 
last years first exam - spring 2007

 6  

2/25 - 3/1

Biogeochemical Processes - Chapter 3
Parent Material - Chapter 4

7

3/3 - 3/7

Relief - Chapter 4 
Climate - Chapter 4

  8

3/10 - 3/14

Organisms - Chapter 4

BREAK

3/17 - 3/21

NO CLASSES

9  

3/24 - 3/28

Time - Chapter 5 

10

3/31 - 4/4

EXAM #2 (4/3) - over Ch. 3-5 and labs
last years second exam - spring 2007

Soil Taxonomy - Chapter 7
Alfisols - Chapter 8

11

4/7 - 4/11

Entisols - Chapter 11

12

4/14 - 4/18

Histosols - Chapter 13

 13  

4/21 - 4/25

Andisols - Chapter 9
Aridisols - Chapter 10
Gelisols - Chapter 12

14

4/28 - 5/2

Inceptisols - Chapter 14
 Mollisols - Chapter 15
Oxisols - Chapter 16

15

5/5 -5/9

Spodosols - Chapter 17
Ultisols - Chapter 18
Vertisols - Chapter 19

 FINAL EXAMS - Lecture Section 1 - Monday May 12 12:30-2:30PM
                            Lecture Section 2 - Tuesday May 13 8:00- 10:00AM

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