soil genesis
Noun

soil genesis (uncountable)

  1. The mode of soil formation.
  2. The subdiscipline of soil science that deals with soil genesis, with special reference to the soil-forming factors responsible for development of the solum, or true soil: time, parent material, topography, climate and organisms.



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