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Lithic contact
A boundary between soil and continuous, coherent, underlying material. The underlying material must be sufficiently coherent to make hand-digging with a spade impractical. If a single mineral, its hardness is 3 (Mohs scale), and gravel size chunks that do not disperse with 15 hours shaking in water or sodium hexametaphosphate solution.
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- Industry/Domain: Earth science
- Category: Soil science
- Company: Soil Science Society of America
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