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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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Oxbow lake
Earth science; Soil science
The crescent-shaped, often ephemeral body of standing water situated by the side of a stream in the abandoned channel (oxbow) of a meander after the stream formed a neck cutoff and the ends of the ...
Adjusted sodium adsorption ratio
Earth science; Soil science
The sodium adsorption ratio of a water adjusted for the precipitation or dissolution of Ca2+ that is expected to occur where a water reacts with alkaline earth carbonates within a soil.
Soil test interpretation
Earth science; Soil science
The process of developing nutrient application recommendations from soil test concentrations, and other soil, crop, economic, environmental, and climatic information.
Soil matrix
Earth science; Soil science
The solid phases constituents of the soil. Often used to refer to the soil pore system within aggregates.
Sodication
Earth science; Soil science
The process whereby the exchangeable sodium content of a soil is increased.
Base saturation
Earth science; Soil science
The ratio of the quantity of exchangeable bases to the cation exchange capacity. The value of the base saturation varies according to whether the cation exchange capacity includes only the salt ...
Orthods
Earth science; Soil science
Spodosols that have less than six times as much free iron (elemental) than organic carbon in the spodic horizon but the ratio of iron to carbon is 0. 2 or more. Orthods are not saturated with water ...
