- Industry: 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 structure or barrier built to divert part or all of the water of a stream to a different course.
Industry:Earth science
Soil of the intrazonal order and hydromorphic suborder that includes Wisenboden and related soils, such as Half-Bog soils, which have a thin muck or peat O2 (Oi) horizon and an A1 (A) horizon. Developed in wet meadow and in forested swamps.
Industry:Earth science
Silicate type in which all four oxygens of each silica tetrahedron are shared with other tetrahedra.
Industry:Earth science
Open excavations from which soil and commonly, underlying material, have been removed exposing either rock or other material that supports few or no plants. Includes mine pits, gravel pits, and quarry pits. A miscellaneous area.
Industry:Earth science
Soft, friable, isovolumetrically weathered bedrock that retains the fabric and structure of the parent rock exhibiting extensive inter-crystal and intra-crystal weathering. In pedology, saprolite was formerly applied to any unconsolidated residual material underlying the soil and grading to hard bedrock below.
Industry:Earth science
Said of a sedimentary deposit consisting of coarse clastics and deposited nearest the source area.
Industry:Earth science
Carried upon, deposited from, or pertaining to the top surface of a glacier or ice sheet; said of meltwater streams, till, drift, etc.
Industry:Earth science
Analytical expressions used to estimate hydraulic properties from surrogate date of more easily obtained soil properties.
Industry:Earth science
Any of numerous proteins that are produced in the cells of living organisms and function as catalysts in the chemical processes of those organisms.
Industry:Earth science
