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Definition of Residual soil
1. Noun. The soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Residual Soil
Literary usage of Residual soil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature and Properties of Soils: A College Text of Edaphology by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Harry Oliver Buckman (1922)
"The gradual transition of country rock into residual soil by weathering in ...
The changes that a rock undergoes in forming a residual soil are first a ..."
2. Elementary Geology by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1897)
"residual soil. The chemical and mechanical agents of destruction go hand in hand;
and in time, the result is the production of a soil-covering for the rock; ..."
3. Elementary Geology by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1903)
"residual soil. The chemical and mechanical agents of destruction go hand in hand;
and in time, the result is the production of a soil-covering for the rock; ..."
4. The Principles of Soil Management by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin (1909)
"There may be as many kinds of residual soil as there are rocks. ... The important
areas of residual soil in North America occur south of the limit of ..."
5. Physical and Commercial Geography: A Study of Certain Controlling Conditions by Herbert Ernest Gregory, Albert Galloway Keller, Avard Longley Bishop (1910)
"Limestone is so readily dissolved by ground water that its residual soil may ...
A quarry section through residual soil, extending from the surface to the ..."
6. Physical and Commercial Geography: A Study of Certain Controlling Conditions by Herbert Ernest Gregory, Albert Galloway Keller, Avard Longley Bishop (1910)
"Limestone is so readily dissolved by ground water that its residual soil may ...
A quarry section through residual soil, extending from the surface to the ..."
7. Soils and Soil Fertility by Andrew R. Whitson, Harlow Leslie Walster (1912)
"It is therefore possible to distinguish between soils which were derived from
the rocks immediately underneath them, and are therefore called residual soil, ..."
8. The Physical Geography of Wisconsin by Lawrence Martin, Fredrik Turville Thwaites (1916)
"Throughout the Drift- less Area the work of weathering has continued since long
before the Glacial Period and has produced a deep mantle of residual soil or ..."
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