Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

SOS 402 — Soil Survey, Sampling, Classification and Taxonomy

SOS department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

The importance of soil surveys and the need to classify soils. Guides to soil surveys: soil survey scales and kinds of soil survey, soil mapping units, soil survey operations. Understanding what we see in terms of soil genesis: concept of benchmark soils, defining soil series.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study SOS 402.

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