Soil science

Soil science

That science dealing with soils as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils per se; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.

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Recharge

Earth science; Soil science

Movement of water into the aquifer or a recharge area.

Pits

Earth science; Soil science

Open excavations from which soil and commonly, underlying material, have been removed exposing either rock or other material that supports few or no plants. Includes mine pits, gravel pits, and ...

Framework silicate

Earth science; Soil science

Silicate type in which all four oxygens of each silica tetrahedron are shared with other tetrahedra.

Regosol

Earth science; Soil science

Any soil of the azonal order without definite genetic horizons and developing from or on deep, unconsolidated, soft mineral deposits such as sands, 1oess, or glacial drift.

Amensalism

Earth science; Soil science

An interaction between two organisms in which one organism is suppressed by the other (such as suppression of one organism by toxins produced by the second).

Aridisols

Earth science; Soil science

Mineral soils that have an aridic moisture regime, an ochric epipedon, and other pedogenic horizons but no oxic horizon. (An order in the U. S. system of soil taxonomy. )