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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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Bank failure
Earth science; Soil science
Process of erosion involving mass slumping of a stream or gully bank.
Microflora
Earth science; Soil science
Bacteria (including actinomycetes), fungi, algae, and viruses.
Phyllosilicate mineral
Earth science; Soil science
Phyllosilicate minerals have layer structures composed of shared octahedral and tetrahedral sheets. * plane (of atoms) - A flat (planar) array of atoms of one atomic thickness. Example: plane of ...
Fibrists
Earth science; Soil science
Histosols that have a high content of undecomposed plant fibres and a bulk density less than about 0. 1 g cm-3. Fibrists are saturated with water for periods long enough to limit their use for most ...
Histosols
Earth science; Soil science
Organic soils that have organic soil materials in more than half of the upper 80 cm, or that are of any thickness if overlying rock or fragmental materials that have interstices filled with organic ...
Entisols
Earth science; Soil science
Mineral soils that have no distinct subsurface diagnostic horizons within 1 m of the soil surface. (An order in the U. S. system of soil taxonomy. )
Umbrepts
Earth science; Soil science
Inceptisols formed in cold or temperate climates that commonly have an umbric epipedon, but they may have a mollic or an anthropic epipedon 25 cm or more thick under certain conditions. These soils ...
