soil science

soil science
soil scientist.
pedology1.
[1935-40]

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Scientific discipline that investigates soils as primary natural resources at the surface of the Earth.

It includes the subdisciplines of pedology (study of soil formation and classification), soil biology (study of soil organisms), soil chemistry, and soil physics.

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Universalium. 2010.

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