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Mestrado Universitario en Ciencias. Tecnoloxías e Xestión Ambiental (plan 2012)
 Subjects
  Soil Quality
   Contents
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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