Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
Mestrado Universitario en Ciencias. Tecnoloxías e Xestión Ambiental (plan 2012) |
Subjects |
Soil Quality |
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Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Soil Quality | Code | 610500009 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Optativa | 3 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1 - Soil composition. Mineral and organic fractions: reactivity and interactions. Texture, structure and related properties. Cation exchange and soil reaction. Microorganisms. 2 - Soil functions. Capacity for self-purification 3 - Soil quality. Quality indicators. Risk assessment. 4 - Punctual and diffuse contamination. Degradation of soil structure. Water erosion. Erosion as a source of diffuse pollution. 5 - Impact of metals on soil functioning. Interaction between trace elements and soil composition. Cycle of trace elements in the soil. 6 - Contaminants from agricultural, urban and industrial origin. Retention and mobility of contaminants in the soil. Persistence. Assessment risl contamination. 7 - Investigation and treatment of contaminated soils. Soil recovery. Environmental control. 8 - Methods for decontamination of soils. Mechanical, chemical and biological methods. 9 - Phytoremediation of soils. Perspectives and applications. 10 - Soil as nonrenewable resource. Strategies against pollution of soils. Legislation and plans on contaminated soils. 11 - Introduction to groundwater. Sources of pollution. Behavior and mobility of contaminants in the saturated zone. |
The common thread of these issues is the relationship between soil functions and quality indicators |
Practices - Soil sampling, observation profiles, phenomena of degradation - Determination of physico-chemical indicators of soil quality - Determination of biological indicators of soil quality - Case study of contaminated soils. - Soil and water pollution |
Most common soil profiles in the region |
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