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It constitutes a wide ranging and authorative collection of some 160 academic articles covering the salient aspects of soil physics, chemistry, biology, fertility, technology, genesis, morphology, classification and geomorphology. It constitutes a wide ranging and authorative collection of about 160 academic articles covering the salient aspects of soil physics, chemistry, biology, fertility, technology, genesis, morphology, classification and. Physics, chemistry, biology, fertility and technology. Soil conservation refers to the control of soil erosion in order to maintain agricultural productivity. Soil science will cease publication at the end of 2019 with volume 184, issue 3.
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