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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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Soil science
Soil auger
Earth science; Soil science
A tool for boring into the soil and withdrawing a small sample for field or laboratory observation. Soil augers may be classified into several types as follows: (i) those with worm-type bits, ...
Autotroph
Earth science; Soil science
An organism capable of utilising CO2 or carbonates as a sole source of carbon and obtaining energy for carbon reduction and biosynthetic processes from radiant energy (photoautotroph or ...
Allochthonous
Earth science; Soil science
A term which connotes that something (an allochthon) is derived from someplace else, or is not indigenous to a site or area. For example, the allochthonous parent material of an alluvial soil, or an ...
Hydraulic nonequilibrium
Earth science; Soil science
Condition in which movement of water occurs between flow regions, e.g., macropore to micropore, as a result of gradient in hydrualic potential between the regions.
Smemipermeable
Earth science; Soil science
A thin layer of animal or plant tissue which allows some substances to move through them more than others.
Soil block
Earth science; Soil science
An isolation volume of soil used to conduct three-dimentional flow and transport studies.
Euic
Earth science; Soil science
High level of bases in soil material, specified at family level of classification.
