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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 ...
The protein that fixes carbon during photosynthesis. The most common protein on earth.
Industry:Biology
A stream channel that branches back toward its source. The opposite of a Distributary.
Industry:Biology
The proliferation of alleles (different versions of the same gene) across populations.
Industry:Biology
The weathering caused by water freezing and therefore expanding in cracks and fissues.
Industry:Biology
Tourism that makes use of the ecological attributes of a place (e.g., bird-watching).
Industry:Biology
A mobile organism that does not depend on other organisms for food or other resources.
Industry:Biology
A seismic pulse that moves things up and down or side to side. It follows the P-wave.
Industry:Biology
The altitude below which a stream cannot perform vertical erosion. Usually, sea level.
Industry:Biology
The stable foundation of the continental plates; composed of the shield and platform.
Industry:Biology
Flat layers of sedimentation left by melt from a retreating glacier. Some are arable.
Industry:Biology
