- 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 ...
An octahedral sheet or a mineral containing such a sheet that has all of the sites filled, usually by divalent ions such as magnesium or ferrous iron.
Industry:Earth science
A term used to indicate the energy required to move an object a certain distance.
Industry:Earth science
An electrode that maintains an invariant potential under the conditions prevailing in an electrochemical measurement and thereby permits measurement of the potential of an ion-selective or a platinum (redox) electrode.
Industry:Earth science
Groups of taxonomic soil units with similar adaptations or management requirements for one or more specific purposes, such as: adapted crops or crop rotations, drainage practices, fertilization, forestry, highway engineering, etc.
Industry:Earth science
Properties of a medium (soil) relative to heat content and heat transfer, such as thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, and thermal diffusivity.
Industry:Earth science
Method used in the analysis of minerals to detect weight (mass) loss on heating.
Industry:Earth science
Members of the genus Pseudomonas, a large group of gram-nagative, obligately respiratory (never fermentative) bacteria.
Industry:Earth science
Redoximorphic concentrations , redoximorphic depletions, reduced matrices, and other features indicating the chemical reduction and oxidation of iron and manganese compounds resulting from saturation.
Industry:Earth science
Cutan associated with the surfaces of skeleton grains or other discrete units such as nodules, concretions, etc.
Industry:Earth science
Aridisols which have a duripan that has its upper boundary within 100 cm of the soil surface.
Industry:Earth science
