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Soils differ widely in their properties because of geologic and climatic variation over distance and time. Even a simple property, such as the soil thickness, can range from a few centimetres to many metres, depending on the intensity and duration of weathering, episodes of soil deposition and erosion, and the patterns of landscape evolution.. Nevertheless, in spite of this variability, soils

What is Soil? This definition is from the Soil Science Society of America. soil - (i) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the Earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants. (ii) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the Earth that has been subjected to and

Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life. (Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil.) The term pedolith, used commonly to refer to the soil, translates to ground stone in the sense fundamental stone, from the

Explain why those soils are the best growing environment for the crops that you chose. 4. The parent soil is the horizon from which the soil is composed. Find out where the horizon of parent soils