13 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Earth science > 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.
Industry: Earth science
Add a new termContributors in Soil science
Soil science
Structural charge
Earth science; Soil science
The charge (usually negative) on a mineral resulting from isomorphous substitution within the mineral layer. (Expressed as moles (mol) or centimoles (cmol) of charge per kilogramme of clay. )
Soil hydrology
Earth science; Soil science
The science dealing with the fundamental properties and processes of water in the vadose zone.
Tree-tip pit
Earth science; Soil science
The small pit or depression resulting from the area vacated by the root plate(ball) from tree-tip. Such pits are commonly adjacent to small mounds composed of the displaced material. Subsequent ...
Spores
Earth science; Soil science
Specialised reproductive cell. Asexual spores germinate without uniting with other cells, whereas sexual spores of opposite mating types unite to form a zygote before germination occurs.
Parent material
Earth science; Soil science
The unconsolidated and more or less chemically weathered mineral or organic matter from which the solum of soils is developed by pedogenic processes.
Humification
Earth science; Soil science
The process whereby the carbon of organic residues is transformed and converted to humic substances through biochemical and abiotic processes.
