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Definition of Desert soil
1. Noun. A type of soil that develops in arid climates.
Definition of Desert soil
1. Noun. A soil variety typically found in arid climates, usually with little leaching and minimal humus content. Referred to as an "aridisol" in the nomenclature of the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Desert Soil
Literary usage of Desert soil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Relation of Desert Plants to Soil Moisture and to Evaporation by Burton Edward Livingston (1906)
"About June 16, 1904, some two weeks previous to the beginning of the studies of
desert soil, a number of soil samples were collected in Kalkaska and ..."
2. Business Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Robert Marshall Brown, Lenox E. Chase, Frank Ernest Williams (1922)
"Several conditions improve much of the desert soil: (1) such soil has been
transported so that portions derived from many different areas are usually well ..."
3. Business Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Frank Ernest Williams, Robert Marshall Brown (1922)
"Several conditions improve much of the desert soil: (1) such soil has been
transported so that portions derived from many different areas are usually well ..."
4. Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia by Geographical Society of Philadelphia (1910)
"desert soil is always not only rich but lasting. The salts of sodium, potassium,
lime, magnesium, nitrogen, ordinarily leached from the soil by rain even ..."
5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"... while the same forms in the much less saline and at the same time much drier
desert soil exhibited pressures isotonic with a 1.5 to 3.0 normal solution. ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"... 1.5 normal solution of potassium nitrate, while the same forms in the much
less saline and at the same time much drier desert soil exhibited pressures ..."
7. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1895)
"A desert soil has never had the decaying vegetation, the humus. A desert soil is
like ashes; you can kick it up like an ash bed. Our* soils here are made of ..."
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