Soils Academy

Soil water is mainly found within the pore spaces of the soil. It competes with air for pore spaces and therefore occupies the pore spaces ...

Soil organic matter is an important component of soils; although it constitutes only about 5% of total soil composition of mineral soils (i...

Mineral matter is the predominant component of mineral soils. It constitutes about 45% of total soil composition. It is made up of a numbe...

Soil air is an important component of soils. It occupies those pore spaces not occupied by soil water. Soil air competes with soil water fo...

Chemical weathering is a type of weathering that primarily results in changes to the chemical composition of rocks and minerals. These chem...

Physical weathering is a type of weathering whose major impact is the reduction of larger rocks and minerals into smaller sized particles. ...

Weathering is the group of processes whereby rocks and mineral, on exposure to weather, change in character, disintegrate, decompose, and ...