Open AccessPROBLEMS AND TASKS OF THEORETICAL SOIL SCIENCE
Author(s) -
V.A. Korolev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gruntovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0541
pISSN - 2306-9139
DOI - 10.53278/2306-9139-2021-2-17-38-44
Subject(s) - soil water , soil science , mathematics , environmental science
The article deals with the problems and tasks of a new section of Soil Science — Theoretical soil science. It is noted that Theoretical soil science is a section of soil science about the most general laws that mathematically describe the composition, structure, properties of soils and their formation, processes in them, as well as changes in soils under the influence of internal and external factors. It is shown that the main goal of Theoretical soil science is the study and mathematical description of the most general laws of the formation of the composition, structure and properties of soils, the laws of their change under the influence of internal factors and external influences, as well as the interaction between soils, represented in mathematical form. The main method of understanding Theoretical soil science is not empirical research methods, as in classical soil science, but the use of theoretical (primarily mathematical) models of phenomena in soil and their comparison with reality.