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Definition of Soil profile
1. Noun. A vertical section of soil from the ground surface to the parent rock.
Medical Definition of Soil profile
1. A vertical section of the soil through all its horizons and extending into the parent material. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soil Profile
Literary usage of Soil profile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"The soil profile has a prismatic-latticed-cellular texture (resulting from melting
of ice veinlets in the fine-grained FIGURE 1 Schematic cross section ..."
2. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 edited by Thomas D. O'Rourke (1993)
"For the "soft"- soil-profile zone, we considered that the pair of ...
For the "firm"-soil-profile zone, no similar soil-bedrock site pairs existed within ..."
3. Physical Measurements in Flooded Rice Soils: The Japanese Methodologies by International Rice Research Institute, Toshio Tabuchi (1987)
"Consequently, soil profile surveys are useful in understanding those ...
soil profile description Describing soil profiles requires knowledge of soil ..."
4. Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice by International Rice Research Institute (1982)
"The subsurface water is retained in the soil profile for crop use during a dry
... The flux which the soil profile can absorb through its surface when it ..."
5. Computers and Information Technologies in Agricultural Production and edited by Karl Schneider (1998)
"The wetting front was shown to move slowly through the soil profile for the low
conductivity soil which deviates from the drained to equilibrium ..."
6. Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer Innovation With Mucuna by Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, Gustavo Sain (1998)
"Figure 16 shows that changes in C content were significant in the first 5 cm of
the soil profile, especially in the 0- to 2.5-cm layer, ..."
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