Fall
2007 Syllabus Lecture
Schedule | Supplemental Materials
Tuesday and Thursday in S-509 Turner Hall
R.G. Darmody
W-515 Turner Hall
333-9489
rdarmody@uiuc.edu
 |
Office Hours
11:00-12:00 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays,
or by appointment; call or e-mail anytime. |
Required Text: Soil Genesis and
Classification. 5th ed. 2003. By S.W.
Boul, R.J. Southard, R.C. Grahm, and P.A. McDaniel.
Tentative Lecture Schedule
| Date |
Topic |
Chapter
of Text
|
|
| 8/23 |
Introduction
to the Course and to Pedology |
1
|
1:
1-7; 2: 1-5
|
| 8/28 |
Soil
Profiles |
2
|
2:
459-477
|
| 8/30 |
...continued |
2
|
|
| 9/4 |
Soil
Physical Properties |
2
|
1:
59-191
|
| 9/6 |
...continued |
2
|
|
| 9/11 |
Soil
Chemical Properties/Mineralogy |
2
|
1:
192-196
|
| 9/13 |
...continued,
Report 1 due |
2
|
|
| 9/18 |
EXAM
1 |
| 9/20 |
Soil
Forming Processes |
3
|
3:
3-15, 301-310
|
| 9/25 |
...continued |
4
|
|
| 9/27 |
Parent
Materials |
4
|
1:
73-80; 4: 65-71
|
| 10/2 |
...continued |
4
|
3:
270-285
|
| 10/4 |
Relief |
|
|
| 10/9 |
Climate |
4
|
|
| 10/11 |
Organisms |
5
|
3:
179-208
|
| 10/16 |
Time-Soil
Stratigraphy-Paleosols Report 2 due
|
|
|
| 10/18 |
EXAM
2 |
| 10/23 |
Soil
Classification |
6,
7, 20
|
3:
381-392
|
| 10/25 |
Soil
Taxonomy |
6,
7, 20
|
|
| 10/30 |
...continued |
6,
7, 20
|
|
| 11/1 |
Soil
Mapping / GIS |
21
|
2:
7-11, 407-410
|
| 11/6 |
...continued |
21
|
1:
8-58
|
| 11/8 |
Soil
Surveys/Soil Interpretations |
-
|
|
| 11/13 |
Soils of
Illinois, World Soils Report 3 due
|
8,
11, 14, 15
|
4:
all; 3: 29-52 1: 327-335
|
| 11/15 |
EXAM
3 |
| 11/17-25 |
Thanksgiving
Holiday |
| 11/27 |
Applied Pedology,
Biogeochemistry
|
9,
10, 16, 17, 18, 19
|
|
| 11/29 |
Pedotechnology
- Reclamation, Subsidence |
21
|
|
| 12/4 |
On-Site
Sewage, Sediments as Soil |
| 12/6 |
Hydric
Soils, Arctic & Alpine Soils |
12,
13
|
|
| 12/10
Mon. |
FINAL
EXAM - 1:30-4:30 p.m. |
*Supplemental Readings
These items are on reserve in S-406 Turner Hall:
1. Soil Survey Manual
2. Soil Taxonomy
3. Selected Papers in Soil Formation and Classification
4. Bulletin 778, Soils of Illinois
5. File of exams
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