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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 ...
Release of gas from molten rock or from the Earth's interior. Ancient outgassing produced most of the Earth's atmosphere.
Industry:Biology
The actual food web interactions between species compared with the total possible number; usually expressed as a fraction.
Industry:Biology
Earthquakes happen when continental plates moving in opposite directions finally slip after a long accumulation of stress.
Industry:Biology
Organic compound composed primarily of hydrogen and carbon atoms. Petroleum, natural gas, coal, and methane are examples.
Industry:Biology
Theodore Roszak’s term for the integration of intellect, body, and emotion that makes an ecological sensitivity possible.
Industry:Biology
Sculpted by wind through deposition or erosion. Examples include dunes, deflation hollows, and sand-blasted outcroppings.
Industry:Biology
Fast or even explosive erosion forced by air bubbles carried by a rapidly flowing liquid. Ruins its share of water pumps.
Industry:Biology
The temperature at which water vapor from a saturated air mass turns into liquid. Below freezing, called a frost point.
Industry:Biology
The pooling of groundwater on top of a bedrock layer. This pooling holds 95% of the world's total supply of freshwater.
Industry:Biology
An elongated sand dune formed parallel to the prevailing winds. Also, a dune formed by winds from multiple directions.
Industry:Biology
