Tuesday, October 21, 2014

What makes soils different from one another?

Soil scientists describe soil as a natural body that forms as the result of five factors: Climate, Organisms (plants, animals, and microorganisms), Relief (shape of the landscape), Parent materials, and Time. This can be explaines as a function as follows.
S = function (Climate, Biota, Slope (Relief), Parent material, Time)
These five factors are referred to as ClORPT, for short (kind of a mnemonics).
To know more about this fact please do read this blog post : What makes soils different from one another?

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