- 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 ...
The hydraulic conductivity divided by the differential water capacity (care being taken to be consistent with units), or the flux of water per unit gradient of water content in the absence of other force fields.
Industry:Earth science
The slope bounding a drainageway and lying between the drainageway and the adjacent interfluve. It is generally linear along the slope width and overland flow is parallel down the slope.
Industry:Earth science
Term used to refer to potassium or potassium fertilizers and usually designated as K2O.
Industry:Earth science
The molecules of silicon dioxide (SiO2) per molecule of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) in clay minerals or in soils.
Industry:Earth science
The material within the simplest peds, or composing apedal soil materials, in which the pedological features occur; it consists of the plasma, skeleton grains and voids that do not occur as pedological features other than those expressed by specific extinction (orientation) patterns. Pedological features also have an internal s-matrix.
Industry:Earth science
