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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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. ...

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 ...

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), ...