ABSTRACT
Soils mean different things to different people. Soil scientists view soils as being made up of differently sized mineral particles (i.e., sand, silt, and clay) and organic matter. They have complex biological, chemical, physical, and mineralogical properties that are always changing with time. Agronomists, farmers, and gardeners, on the other hand, see soil as a medium for growing
1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Nature of Soils Relevant to Forensic Soil Science and Human
Decomposition Processes ............................................................................ 3 1.3 Brief History of Forensic Soil Science ........................................................ 4 1.4 Soil Origin, Classification, and Distribution ............................................ 6 1.5 Spatial Scale and Pedogenic Processes .................................................... 10 1.6 Relationship between Soil Type and Scale: Regional and Global .........11 1.7 Most Favored Techniques Used by Forensic Soil Scientists ...................11
