- Branche: 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 ...
A soil drainage class referring to soils which have evidence of seasonal water tables at depths between 8 and 18 inches.
Industry:Earth science
A geologic deposit of fine, grayish siliceous material composed chiefly or wholly of the remains of diatoms. It may occur as a powder or as a porous, rigid material.
Industry:Earth science
A soft, porous, more or less rounded ped from 1 to 5 mm in diameter.
Industry:Earth science
A general term applied to all mineral material transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by running water emanating from a glacier. Drift includes unstratified material (till) that forms moraines, and stratified glaciofluvial deposits that form outwash plains, eskers, kames, varves, and glaciolacustrine sediments.
Industry:Earth science
A natural subsurface horizon with very low organic matter, high bulk density and/or high mechanical strength relative to overlying and underlying horizons; has hard or very hard consistence (seemingly cemented) when dry, but showing a moderate to weak brittleness when moist. The layer typically has redoximorphic features, is slowly or very slowly permeable to water, is considered to be root restricting, and usually has few to many bleached, roughly vertical planes which are faces of coarse or very coarse polyhedrons or prisms.
Industry:Earth science
A generic term for any wetland that accumulates partially decayed plant matter. Mire, moor and muskeg are terms for European and Canadian peatlands.
Industry:Earth science
A group of soil horizons located at or near the surface of a pedon, which have formed from organic residues, either separate from or intermixed with, mineral material.
Industry:Earth science
(i) A cemented concentration of a chemical compound, such as calcium carbonate or iron oxide, that can be removed from the soil intact and that has crude internal symmetry organized around a point, line, or plane. (ii) (micromorphological) A glaebule with a generally concentric fabric about a center which may be a point, line, or a plane.
Industry:Earth science
