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Soil Sustains Life
If you like to eat fine food and wear stylish cloths, then understand that the soil is the source of your food and clothing. Wool may come from sheep and milk from cows, but both of them rely on plants that grow in the soil for their sustenance. Because soil is so common, we often tend to take it for granted - to forget that life as we know it could not exist without soil.
Soil Scientists
Soil scientists explore and seek to understand the earth's finite land and water resources. Students of soil science learn to identify, interpret, and manage soils for agriculture, forestry, rangeland, ecosystems, urban uses, industrial, and mining and reclamation in an environmentally responsible way.
Soil Science...
- encompases biology, ecology, and a variety of earth and other natural resource sciences
- interfaces with geology, geography and engineering
- focuses on understanding, managing, and improving land and water quality
- uses chemistry, physics, mineralogy, microbiology, and mathematics, as well as high technology tools for soil exploration, analysis, data interpretation, and modeling of soil and landscape processes
A free brochure on "Soils Sustain Life" can be obtained from the Soil Science Society of America at http://www.soils.org/brochure.html
Department of Soil & Crop Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Texas A&M University
2474 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2474
979-845-3041 FAX 979-845-0456
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