- المجال: 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 ...
Use of classical mathematical approaches to solve complex formulas, such as differential equations, describing a soil process.
Industry:Earth science
The degree of lightness or darkness of a color in relation to a neutral gray scale. On a neutral gray scale, value extends from pure black to pure white; one of the three variables of color.
Industry:Earth science
The movement of mass at a point in the soil from one region to another region, e.g., solute movement from adsorbed to solution phases or solute movement from a macropore flow region to a micropore flow region.
Industry:Earth science
That concentration at which 95% of maximum relative yield is achieved. Usually coincides with the inflection point of a curvilinear yield response curve.
Industry:Earth science
The process by which liquid water from soil vaporizes near the soil surface and is lost to the atmosphere.
Industry:Earth science
The water storage term for an unconfined aquifer. Defined as the volume of water released from an unconfined aquifer per unit surface area of the aquifer surface area per unit drop in the water table depth.
Industry:Earth science
The silica arrangement characteristic of amphiboles where two long chains of linked silica tetrahedra act as a unit.
Industry:Earth science
The property of a soil pertaining to its susceptibility to decrease in bulk volume when subjected to a load.
Industry:Earth science
The weight percentage of water retained by a previously saturated sample of soil 1 cm in thickness after it has been subjected to a centrifugal force of one thousand times gravity for 30 min.
Industry:Earth science
