Soil Briefs

Soil Briefs discuss formation, characterization and suitability of one or more related soils in their agro-ecological setting. They present full analytical data of the soils and colour pages with photographs of the landscape(s) and soil profile(s).

Soil Briefs are a valuable teaching aid for university lecturers and high school teachers in the field of pedology. They are available for following countries:

• China              13     [available as PDF]
• Costa Rica       2     [available as PDF]
• Cuba                 8     [available as PDF]
• Ecuador            1     [available as PDF]
• Jamaica            1    [available as PDF]
• Nigeria              7    [available as PDF]
• Nicaragua        3    [available as PDF]
• Venezuela        3    [available as PDF]  

Brief descriptions and analytical data are also available for:
 (pepared by International Soil Museum in the 1970s)

• Australia           PDF
• France              PDF
• Soviet Union    PDF
• Spain                PDF
• Sweden            PDF