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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
An insoluble, fibrous carbohydrate that reinforces the cell walls of plants, green algae, and dinoflagellates.
Industry:Biology
A fold in which rock strata bend in the same direction. Caused by sedimentary rocks bending over a fault line.
Industry:Biology
High-altitude landscape holed pitted by selective permafrost thawing. Karst without the chemical weathering. .
Industry:Biology
Chemical conversion of dissolved nitrogen (nitrite) into gaseous nitrogen. Fires on particular soils do this.
Industry:Biology
Accumulation of soil materials (clay, humus, iron, etc. ) leached from one soil layer or horizon into another.
Industry:Biology
The passage and recycling of carbon through the plantary biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
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A bed of soil enclosed by a structure with a top of glass, and heated, often by manure, for raising seedlings.
Industry:Biology
According to one source, a vertebrate whose body is covered with feathers. For more on this, see Pedanticism.
Industry:Biology
Bacterial colonies cultured from a water sample. CFUs indicate the water's level of bacterial concentration.
Industry:Biology
Dating ancient minerals by using their magnetic properties to trace reversals in the Earth's magnetic field.
Industry:Biology
