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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
One shaped by more than one type of geomorphic transformation, like a slope that is partially chemically weathered and partially built up by deposition.
Industry:Biology
Each species in a community requires certain conditions to live, such that if any of them fall below a critical limit, the species cannot survive there.
Industry:Biology
An organism that eats dead organic matter. Most are bacteria, algae, and fungi. They fuel the nitrogen and oxygen cycles that support all life on Earth.
Industry:Biology
A fine, layered, cleavable sedimentary rock composed of clay or similar small particles. Shale deposits sometimes contain or are found near coal or oil.
Industry:Biology
The fan-shaped sedimentary deposits left when storm surges wash over barrier islands, thereby transferring sand from one part of the island to another.
Industry:Biology
A medium to coarse metamorphic rock of elongated minerals. It splits along parallel bedding planes. Often found in the company of tourmaline and garnet.
Industry:Biology
Permanently frozen subsoil. Five types: continuous permafrost, discontinuous permafrost, sporadic permafrost, alpine permafrost, and subsea permafrost.
Industry:Biology
A light-gray earth made of carbonates from shells or fossils; can be either loose or firm. Used as a fertilizer or a source of lime for lime-poor soils.
Industry:Biology
Silt deposited by the wind, often near glaciated land. Its erosion forms "cat steps" that slide off each other. A frequent component of fertile topsoil.
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Medium to coarse igneous rock congealed from felsic (light-colored) magma roiling under continents. Rich in quartz and potassium feldspar (orthoclase).
Industry:Biology
