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pedon [′pe‚dän]
(geology)
The smallest unit or volume of soil that represents or exemplifies all the horizons of a soil profile; it is usually a horizontal, hexagonal area of about 1 square meter, or possibly larger.
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Databases The quantitative characteristics of the humus status of soils originate mainly from the soil profile horizons database PEDON and humus status research transect database CATENA created by us.
Stocks of organic carbon in Estonian soils/Orgaanilise susiniku varud ... by Kolli, Raimo; Ellermae, Olav; Koster, Tiina; Lemetti, Illar; Asi, Endla; Kauer, Karin / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
Each of the 15 sampled pedons was assigned to an (estimated) Soil Taxonomy soil family.
Soil development on a l,500-year-old beach ridge plain, Sturgeon Bay, ... by Nielsen, Asger H. / Michigan Academician
Our categorization of these relatively rare pedons as disharmonic relict palaeosols will be justified in the subsection "Disharmonic soil-type interference on till".
Harmonic and disharmonic soil-type interference on Late Pleistocene ... by Reuter, Gerhard / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
 
 
 
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