Soils of the Plateau Menu

John Foss University of Tennessee

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books:

Jenny, H. 

1941 Factors of Soil Formation. McGraw-Hill Publishers

USDA

1993 Soil Survey Manual. USDA Handbook No. 18, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Printing, Washington, D.C.

Articles in edited books:

Scudder, S.J., J.E. Foss, and M.E. Collins

1996 Soil science and archaeology. Advances in Agronomy 57:1-76. Academic Press, Inc.

LIST OF FIGURES

1. Figure 1 Satellite image of the Karak Plateau showing major soil associations (Units 1-12)

2. Figure 2 Photograph of Wadi al-Mujib (Unit 1)

3. Figure 3 Photograph illustrating shallow nature of soils developed over limestone (Unit 10). Some loess occurs in the surface 40 cm. Note also the coarse fragments on the surface (limestone and basalt).

4. Figure 4 Photograph of deep soil formed in loess over limestone residuum (Unit 2)

5. Figure 5 Photograph of landscape in Unit 4, north of al Qasr. Note the large basalt boulders used for field boundaries.

6. Figure 6 Photograph showing eroded landscapes south of al-Karak (Unit 7).

7. Figure 7 Photograph of Adir area showing shallow soils with numerous outcrops of calcrete (Unit 7).

8. Figure 8 Photograph of Fajj al-Usaykir (Unit 9).

9. Figure 9 Photograph of sheep and goats returning in the evening to al-Simakiyya after grazing during the day. Note the sparse vegetation on the landscape (Unit 5).

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1 Soil associations and their general geology and agricultural land use potential