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Soil genesis is the study of the development of soils. Soil is a natural body, developing from rock at the Earth’s surface through pedogenic processes (weathering and mineral formation, decomposition and humification, structure formation and various substance translocations) under a specific climate, specific litter-delivering vegetation, and population of soil organisms.

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  1. Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Hans-Peter Blume, Heiner Fleige & Rainer Horn

  2. Institute for Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

    Ellen Kandeler & Karl Stahr

  3. Chair of Soil Science, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

    Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  4. Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Ruben Kretzschmar

  5. Institute of Ecology, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Berndt-Michael Wilke

  6. Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Gerhard W. Brümmer

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Blume, HP. et al. (2016). Soil Development and Soil Classification. In: Scheffer/SchachtschabelSoil Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30942-7_7

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