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Soil science
That science dealing with soils as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils per se; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.
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lattice
Earth science; Soil science
A regular geometric arrangement of points in a plane or in space. Lattice is used to represent the distribution of repeating atoms or groups of atoms in a crystalline substance. A lattice is a ...
soil order
Earth science; Soil science
A group of soils in the broadest category. For example, in the 1938 classification system. The three soil orders were zonal soil, intrazonal soil, and azonal soil. In the 1975 there were 10 ...
polypedon
Earth science; Soil science
A group of contiguous similar pedons. The limits of a polypedon are reached at a place where there is no soil or where the pedons have characteristics that differ significantly.
medium-scale map
Earth science; Soil science
A map having a scale from 1:100 000, exclusive, to 1:1 000 000, inclusive.
multiband photography
Earth science; Soil science
A color picture produced by assigning a color to a particular spectral band. Ordinarily blue is assigned to band 1 or 4 (~ 500 to 600 nm), green to band 2 or 5 (~ 600 to 700 nm), and red to band 3 ...
exchangeable nutrient
Earth science; Soil science
A plant nutrient that is held by the adsorption complex of the soil and is easily exchanged with the anion or cation of neutral salt solutions.
static penetrometer
Earth science; Soil science
A penetrometer which is pushed into the soil at a constant and slow rate of penetration.
