1/1,000,000 soil maps of various countries of French-speaking Africa

Abstract

From 1962 on, ORSTOM, has set about preparing and publishing a series of overall soil maps designed to sum up existing knowledge about the soils of these countries and to provide scientific information of general interest on the origins of the soils in these regions. In most of these countries, indeed, ORSTOM has accumulated a considerable quantity of data, which are the fruit of a mole series of surveys and of local and regional studies which put it in a position to submit soil maps of the countries under consideration as a whole.