Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations¶
Montgomery. (2007). Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. California Press.
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Domain-specific¶
- Soil formation
- Geologist David Montgomery, synthesizing global data in Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (2007), documented that soil under conventional tillage agriculture typically erodes at rates one to two orders of magnitude faster than it forms — losses of roughly 1 mm per year or more against formation of hundredths of a millimetre per year
This sourceMontgomery's book-length synthesis of soil erosion across civilizations, which argues that ploughed societies consume their soil faster than it forms; the numerical rates the sentence quotes are stated precisely in his companion PNAS paper of the same year.
- Geologist David Montgomery, synthesizing global data in Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (2007), documented that soil under conventional tillage agriculture typically erodes at rates one to two orders of magnitude faster than it forms — losses of roughly 1 mm per year or more against formation of hundredths of a millimetre per year
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