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Pedoturbation
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The mixing of soil materials by natural processes. compare - cryoturbation. bhm
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Cryoturbation, английский
A collective term used to describe all soil movements due to frost action, characterized by folded, broken and dislocated beds and lenses of unconsolidated deposits. compare - pedoturbation. nrc
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Physiographic division, английский
A large portion of a continent of which all parts are similar in geologic structure and climate at a small scale (e.g. 1:5,000,000) and which has consequently had a unified geomorphic history and whose pattern of relief or landforms differ significantly from that of adjacent areas. examples: the laurentian upland, rocky mountain system, and interior highlands of the u.s.a. western u.s.a. [the highest level in the physiographic location part of the geomorphic description system]. sw & nasis data dictionary
Pedisediment, английский
A sediment layer, eroded from the shoulder and backslope of an erosional slope that lies on and is, or was, being transported across a pediment. ffp
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