- 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 process of bioremediation or biodegradation in which wastes are incorporated into soil and allowed to decompose via naturally occurring microbial activity.
Industry:Earth science
A seaward end or the widened funnel-shaped tidal mouth of a river valley where fresh water comes into contact with seawater and where tidal effects are evident; e.g., a tidal river, or a partially enclosed coastal body of water where the tide meets the current of a stream.
Industry:Earth science
A device for measuring the volume or flux (or rate) of liquid (usually water) entry downward into the soil.
Industry:Earth science
A special kind of aquic conditions which occurs in soils that are cultivated and irrigated.
Industry:Earth science
A kind of map unit comprised of delineations, each of which shows the size, shape, and location of a landscape unit composed of one kind of component soil, or one kind of miscellaneous area, plus allowable inclusions in either case.
Industry:Earth science
A graduated volumetric cone used for determining settleable solids in liquid suspensions.
Industry:Earth science
The water held in the "capillary" or small pores of a soil, usually with a tension >60 cm of water.
Industry:Earth science
A class of phosphorus compounds produced by the reaction of either anhydrous ammonia or potassium hydroxide with pyrophosphoric acid (H4P2O7). Pyrophosphoric acid is a condensation product of two molecules of orthophosphoric acid (H3PO4). The main polyphosphate species in polyphosphate fertilizers.
Industry:Earth science
A soil formed from, or resting on, consolidated rock of the same kind as that from which it was formed, and in the same location.
Industry:Earth science
