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Science Keywords > EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL HORIZONS/PROFILE

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SOIL HORIZONS/PROFILE  

DEFINITION

  • The soil profile is the vertical section of the soil, from the surface through all its horizons, where a horizon is a layer of soil, approximately parallel to the soil surface, differing in properties and characteristics from adjacent layers below and above it.

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CHANGE NOTE

  • 2017-03-10 09:18:02.0 [tstevens] update Definition (The soil profile is the vertical section of the soil, from the surface through all its horizons, where a horizon is a layer of soil, approximately parallel to the soil surface, differing in properties and characteristics from adjacent layers below and above it.); update Definition (The Nature and Properties of Soils, Prentice Hall, 1996. );

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