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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 ...
Sedimentary beds tilted when deposited in the direction the water or wind that built them was moving.
Industry:Biology
Taking plugs of soil out of the ground to increase its aeration. Roots die in overly compacted ground.
Industry:Biology
Seawater with a salinity greater than 35 parts per thousand. Brine is often made salty by evaporation.
Industry:Biology
The horizontal movement of heat energy. A warm breeze through a relatively cool orchard, for instance.
Industry:Biology
A rotating, cigar-shaped cloud that sometimes precedes a thunderstorm. Often seen in UFO photographs.
Industry:Biology
The pattern of climax vegetation tends to reflect the spatial variations of its physical environment.
Industry:Biology
A chargless particle in the nucleus of an atom. Neutrons and protons make up most of the atom's mass.
Industry:Biology
A species confined to a narrow range of conditions (e.g., plants that need a very specific soil pH).
Industry:Biology
A very fancy way of saying: having to do with lakes ("a lacustrine wetland"). See English, Latinized.
Industry:Biology
Ynestra King's term for politics grounded in care and relationships, in eros rather than logos only.
Industry:Biology
