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Earth science
Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.
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humic gley soil
Earth science; Soil 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 ...
enzyme
Earth science; Soil 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.
desert soil
Earth science; Soil science
A zonal great soil group consisting of soils with a very thin, light-colored surface horizon, which may be vesicular and is ordinarily underlain by calcareous material; formed in ...
regosol
Earth science; Soil science
Any soil of the azonal order without definite genetic horizons and developing from or on deep, unconsolidated, soft mineral deposits such as sands, 1oess, or glacial drift.
amensalism
Earth science; Soil science
An interaction between two organisms in which one organism is suppressed by the other (such as suppression of one organism by toxins produced by the second).
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