- 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 ...
Media with properties whose variability are not uniform with space.
Industry:Earth science
Environments in which the concentration of nutrients available for growth is limited. Nutrient poor habitats.
Industry:Earth science
An organic-accumulating wetland that has no significant inflows or outflows and supports acidophilic mosses, particularly Sphagnum.
Industry:Earth science
Rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma, and that has not been changed appreciably by weathering since its formation.
Industry:Earth science
Movement of water molecules at sufficiently high energy levels that they do not slide over one another in parallel paths but cause eddie currents such that the mean velocity is not proportional to the pressure drop.
Industry:Earth science
Property of a fluid indicating its resistance to movement due to the internal friction in the fluid, as measured by the force per unit area resisting flow.
Industry:Earth science
A wet area, periodically inundated with standing or slow moving water, that has grassy or herbaceous vegetation and often little peat accumulation; the water may be salt, brackish or fresh. Sometimes called wet prairies.
Industry:Earth science
An area saturated with water throughout much of the year but with the surface of the soil usually not deeply submerged. Usually characterized by tree or shrub vegetation.
Industry:Earth science
Mollisols that have an ustic soil moisture regime and mesic or warmer soil temperature regimes. Ustolls may have a calcic, petrocalcic, or gypsic horizon, and are not saturated with water for periods long enough to limit their use for most crops.
Industry:Earth science
