Soil horizons/profile

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  • Soil Horizons/Profile
definition
  • The soil profile is the vertical section of the soil, from the surface through all its horizons, where a horizon is a layer of soil, approximately parallel to the soil surface, differing in properties and characteristics from adjacent layers below and above it. 
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data publication(s) found by GCMD Science Keywords)
  • Data supplement to "Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: New insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile"

    (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.5.3.2018.001)