- 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 ...
Ice in the soil in such quantity as to constitute a virtually solid block.
Industry:Earth science
Alfisols that are saturated with water for periods long enough to limit their use for most crops other than pasture or woodland unless they are artificially drained. Aqualfs have mottles, iron-manganese concretions or gray colors immediately below the A1 or Ap horizons and gray colors in the argillic horizon.
Industry:Earth science
Determining the properties of a system from its response to a known stimulus.
Industry:Earth science
Soil microorganisms that cannot be cultured on common laboratory media but can be detected based on sequences of DNA extracted directly from soil.
Industry:Earth science
A technique for specifically encouraging the growth of a particular organism or group of organisms.
Industry:Earth science
A thin layer of water, in close proximity to soil-particle surfaces, that varies in thickness from 1 or 2 to perhaps 100 or more molecular layers.
Industry:Earth science
Having one or more properties which are the same in all directions in a crystal or in a bulk soil.
Industry:Earth science
Al(OH)3. A mineral with a platy habit that occurs in highly weathered soils and in laterite. Also, may be prominent in the subsoil and saprolite of soils formed on crystalline rock high in feldspar.
Industry:Earth science
