The Canadian System of Soil Classification, Third Edition

In collaboration with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the NRC Research Press, we have reproduced The Canadian System of Soil Classification, Third Edition, 1998 in a searchable format. The information for each Soil Order, Great Group and Subgroup in embedded within the outline of the whole system. Other information is provided in HTML format.

Credits	Credits and Copyright Information
Contents	Table of Contents
Preface	About this Book
Chapter 1	Introduction
Chapter 2	Soil, Pedon, Control Section, and Soil Horizons
Chapter 3	Outline of the System and a Key to the Classification of a Pedon.
Chapters 4-13	The Key to Soil Orders, Great Groups, and Subgroups is accessible on-line and is enriched with information from Chapters 4 thru 13. Browse thru the heirarchy for detailed information, or use this search form to find a specific subgroup. Type in a partial or full name of a soil Subgroup to get detailed infomation about it.
Chapter 14	Soil Family and Series
Chapter 15	Soil Phase
Chapter 16	Correlation of Canadian Soil Taxonomy with Other Systems
Chapter 17	Terminology for Describing Soils
Chapter 18	Landform Classification
References	References in this Book
Index	Index of Terms in Book

Citation:
Primary Source: Soil Classification Working Group. 1998. The Canadian System of Soil Classification. Agric. and Agri-Food Can. Publ. 1646 (Revised) 187 pp. NRC Research Press, Ottawa

Online Source: Pedosphere.com. 2002. Searchable Canadian System of Soil Classification, Third Edition [Online WWW]. Available URL: http://www.pedosphere.com/resources/CSSC3rd/ [cite access date].

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