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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 ...
Something added to fix chemically troubled soil. Potash added to soil poor in potassium, for example.
Industry:Biology
A large, glacially eroded bowl on rocky mountains. Alpine glaciers generally start out from a cirque.
Industry:Biology
Temporarily covering the roots of dormant plants with soil or mulch to protect them from the weather.
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Reduction in light intensity due to a filtering medium (e.g., particles in water, a forest canopy).
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Depression or pond found in glacial deposits (see Kame Terrace). Left by a chunk of melted glacier.
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One that is either inexhaustible, like solar or wind energy, or replaceable, like wood from trees.
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The weathering off of granite sheets. Called unloading when it happens in conjunction with uplift.
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The primary ones are competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism, amensalism, and commensialism.
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The enzyme-controlled conversion of carbohydrates like grape sugar into hydrocarbons like alcohol.
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When two reverse faults push a block of rock upward between them. The opposite of a Graben Fault.
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