- Industry: Earth science
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An international scientific society that fosters the transfer of knowledge and practices to sustain global soils. Based in Madison, WI, and founded in 1936, SSSA is the professional home for 6,000+ members dedicated to advancing the field of soil science. It provides information about soils in ...
One of the common components of organic soils and includes both organic and inorganic materials that were either (i) deposited in water by precipitation or through the action of aquatic organisms, or (ii) derived from underwater and floating aquatic plants and aquatic animals.
Industry:Earth science
Land that has (i) a predominance of hydric soils; and (ii) is inundated or sturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of hydrophytic vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
Industry:Earth science
Forces of attraction between unlike molecules, e.g., water and solid.
Industry:Earth science
Mineral soils that have a mollic epipedon overlying mineral material with a base saturation of 50% or more when measured at pH 7. Mollisols may have an argillic, natric, albic, cambic, gypsic, calcic, or petrocalcic horizon, a histic epipedon, or a duripan, but not an oxic or spodic horizon. (An order in the U. S. system of soil taxonomy. )
Industry:Earth science
Nonbiological processes leading to the production of gaseous forms of nitrogen (molecular nitrogen or an oxide of nitrogen).
Industry:Earth science
Rounded or partially rounded rock or mineral fragments between 75 and 250 mm in diameter.
Industry:Earth science
A zonal great soil group similar to Podzols but lacking the distinct A2 (E) horizon characteristic of the Podzol group.
Industry:Earth science
Any plain of unconsolidated fluvial or marine sediment which had its margin on the shore of a large body of water, particularly the sea, e.g., the coastal plain of the Southeastern USA, extending for 5000 km from New Jersey to Texas.
Industry:Earth science
