- Industry: 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 ...
Land that is sensitive to degradation when disturbed; such as with highly erodible soils, soils where salts can and do accumulate, and soils at high elevations.
Industry:Earth science
Any crop grown for the purpose of being turned under while green or soon after maturity for soil improvement.
Industry:Earth science
All organic matter generated by forest vegetation, including litter and unincorporated humus, on the mineral soil surface.
Industry:Earth science
A zonal great soil group consisting of soils with a thin, moderately dark A1 (A) horizon and with a grayish-brown A2 (E) horizon underlain by a B horizon containing a high percentage of bases and an appreciable quantity of illuviated silicate clay; formed on relatively young land surfaces, mostly glacial deposits, from material relatively rich in calcium, under deciduous forests in humid temperate regions.
Industry:Earth science
Entisols that form in recent loamy or clayey alluvial deposits, are usually stratified, and have an organic carbon content that decreases irregularly with depth. Fluvents are not saturated with water for periods long enough to limit their use for most crops.
Industry:Earth science
An organism able to derive carbon and energy for growth and cell synthesis by utilizing organic compounds.
Industry:Earth science
Any interruption in sedimentation, whatever its cause or length, usually a manifestation of nondeposition and accompanying erosion.
Industry:Earth science
Any type of multiple cropping land-use that entails complementary relations between tree and agricultural crops and produces some combination of food, fruit, fodder, fuel, wood, mulches, or other products.
Industry:Earth science
