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Search results tagged: Soil formation (4)

  • Humans and soil formation

    Ploughing, capping and covering, or contamination – soil remembers what it has once experienced. The memory of soil can reach back thousands of years, showing the traces and scars that natural processes and human activities have left behind.

  • Soil profile

    Soil scientists tend to be very specific about the term 'soil horizon'. What is a 'soil horizon', and why are there so many different ones?

  • Factors affecting soil formation

    Soil types varied at different scales and in response to different features of the overall landscape, such as vegetation and slope gradient.

  • How do soils form?

    Understanding soil formation helps explain the diversity of soils and our own role in it.

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