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Soils: A new global view. T.R. PATON, G.S. HuMPHREYS and P.B. MITCHELL. London: UCL Press Ltd., 1995, 213 pp. 14.95 (pbk). ISBN 185728 465 8
This is a very unusual, stimulating and sometimes frustrating book. In the introduction a very convincing case is made for a re-assessment of the zonal concept of soils. The evidence for clay translocation is found wanting and, thus, other explanations have to be sought to explain texture contrast soils. This explanation is sought in processes that operate globally, such as...