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Geological and Soil Evidence: Forensic Applications

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I bought this to use as a base level for a course on forensic soil science. What I found over the semester though was that some of the pages were wasted on photographs of crime scenes (pictures of the countryside etc.,) and pages of data and I'd have liked to have seen more case studies (how they were solved and the result) - as it was I found I needed to go to the published literature for examples to highlight the book chapters. The students who bought the book for class were excited by it but it was soon evident that some sections had too much information and other sections not enough. It is tough as it is to try and teach all that is needed in basic soil science and then give applications of forensics. I did particulary like the sampling and sample handling sections and the evaluation sections = they were very useful.