Minerals useful to California agriculture

California. Division Of Mines And Geology

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• Mineralogy

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• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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**-•pSTATE OF CALIFORNIA
EARL WARREN, Governor
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
WARREN T. HANNUM. Director
DIVISION OF MINES
FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO 11
OLAF P. JENKINS, Chief
BULLETIN 155 MARCH 1951SAN FRANCISCO
MINERALS USEFUL
TO
CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
OLAF P. JENKINS
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
OLIVER E. BOWEN, JR. JAMES W. VERNON
HANS JENNY WILLIAM E. VER PLANCK
ROBERT Z. ROLLINS LAUREN A. WRIGHT
CONTRIBUTING AGENCIES
STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
STATE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES,
DIVISION OF MINES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
LIBRARY
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
DAVISCONTENTS
Page
Hans Jenny Collaborators 9Exploring the Soils of California, by and
HTCommercial Fertilizers, by William E. Ver Planck
Fertilizers, by William E. Ver Planck 7:^Minerals of Commercial
Rollins 7!)Agricultural Minerals in California, by Robert Z.
105 Gypsum, by Robert Z. Rollins
Gypsum Resources California, William E. Ver Planck 117of by
Limestone Oliver Bowen, Jr. 123and Marl Resources of California, by E.
California Sources of Sulfur and Sulfuric Acid, by James W.
X'ernon vl29
California's Resources of Minerals of Minor Agricultural Use,the
131by Lauren A. Wright
Index 139
ILLUSTRATIONS
Page
1111. Soil survey areas in CaliforniaFigure
162. Upland soils
1!^
.{. terrace soilsValley and
21soil-survey areas .Distribution of soil grades in4.
22good soils in California."i. Location of excellent and
cropsbetween natural land divisions and distribution ofC). Relations
24the Lodi areain
2."
neutral, and l)asic soils in California7. Acid,
-'*precipitation California8. Simplified map of in
27of in California soilsn. Distribution lime
2810. Occurrence of characteristic B horizons
in soil-surveyProj.ortions of sands, loams, clay loams, and clays11.
areas _2^>
'iOof soil textures12. Generalized distribution
'Ucrystals showing arrangement of atoms13. Models of clay
flocculated soil, after14. Schematic arrangement of dispersed soil and
32drjing
34containing alkali15. Distribution of soils
3."
l(j. Schematic illustration of base-exchange reaction
3(5pasturesof irrigated croplands and17. Distril)Ution
4(»agricultural lands18. Distribution of water resources and
infiltration Ramona sandy loam as influ-10. Relative rates of on a
42by amendmentsenced organic
of water at fieldrepresentation of the slow movement20. Diagrammatic
44capacity
of con-and of soil nitrogen under systems21. Decline of barley yields
51tinuous cropping
sold in California, 1904-1941 51Amounts of commercial fertilizers22.
as conditioned by various levels23. Efficiency of phosphate fertiliztition
60of nitrogen
16-17California soil profilesPlate 1. Typical
24-25B. Alkali soil after reclamation2. Alkali soil before reclamation.A,and tran.-^piration experiments3. I^ayout of evaporation
(5)