- Industria: 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 ...
Areas of nearly flat, barren mud periodically covered by tidal waters. Normally these materials have an excess of soluble salt. A miscellaneous area.
Industry:Earth science
Pertaining to rock or sediment composed mainly of fragments derived from preexisting rocks or minerals and moved from their place of origin. The term indicates sediment sources that are both within and outside the depositional basin.
Industry:Earth science
Mixing dry, individually granulated materials to form a mixed fertilizer.
Industry:Earth science
Pertaining to soils that are saturated but are not reduced and do not contain redoximorphic features.
Industry:Earth science
An in-place concentration of iron oxides that is at least weakly cemented.
Industry:Earth science
Andisols that are saturated with water for periods long enough to limit their use for most crops other than pasture unless they are artificially drained. Aquands have low chromas in redox depletions or on ped faces.
Industry:Earth science
A subdivision of a soil order comprising a large group of soils in which calcium accumulated during soil formation.
Industry:Earth science
