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Environmental Soil Chemistry

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Professor Donald L. Sparks has managed to write an excellent and up-to-date book on important topics related to environmental soil chemistry. The book covers all the essential subjects needed for an in-depth understanding of all the complex soil processes that control the fate and transport of both inorganic and organic contaminants in the environment. The book also includes good descriptions of state-of-the-art instrumentations used in environmental soil chemistry such as synchrotron radiation-based X-ray techniques. I use this book in my course entitled "Soil and Environmental Chemistry" and the book has the perfect length for a one semester course and the students like it. I can highly recommend this book for both undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals.

Dr. Thomas Borch
Assistant Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA

Soil Chemistry by sparks is a strong text. It covers the essentials of soil chemistry and would be an excellent reference book, as it is concise.

I purchased this textbook as required reading for a grad class, and barely used it. It's a short, thin book, seems to be lacking in key topics, and the index is minimally useful. If I had it to do over, I'd purchase a more rigorous soil chem textbook.

This was required reading for a soil water chemistry course that I took. As the course was problem-based learning, this text came in handy as a resource.

Item arrived on time and in great condition. Couldn't ask for more.

The book is really great an easy to understand. Great Resource book.

The book is very good. I received the product before the date stipulated by Amazon. I am satisfied.