Earth science

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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isotropic

Earth science; Soil science

Having one or more properties which are the same in all directions in a crystal or in a bulk soil.

gibbsite

Earth science; Soil science

Al(OH)3. A mineral with a platy habit that occurs in highly weathered soils and in laterite. Also, may be prominent in the subsoil and saprolite of soils formed on crystalline ...

capacitance

Earth science; Soil science

An elecromagnetic method for measuring the soil water content.

sterilization

Earth science; Soil science

Rendering an object or substance free of viable microbes.

concrete frost

Earth science; Soil science

Ice in the soil in such quantity as to constitute a virtually solid block.

saprolite

Earth science; Soil 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 ...