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  • adjective geology Pertaining to processes that add, transfer, transform, or remove soil constituents.

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Examples

  • The pedogenic process associated with prairie vegetation is calcification, as carbonates accumulate in lower soil layers.

    Prairie Division (Bailey) 2009

  • In this climatic regime, the dominant pedogenic process is calcification, with salinization on poorly drained sites.

    Temperate Steppe Division (Bailey) 2009

  • In this climatic regime, the dominant pedogenic process is calcification; salinization is dominant on poorly drained sites.

    Great Plains-Palouse Dry Steppe Province (Bailey) 2009

  • Bicarbonate weathering and leaching and accumulation of clay and silica in subsoils are the main pedogenic processes in the terrace soils.

    Hardpan Terraces 2009

  • The pedogenic process associated with deciduous forest is podzolization, moderated by warm wet winters.

    Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Oceanic) Province (Bailey) 2009

  • A dominant pedogenic process is salinization, which produces areas of salt crust where only salt-loving (halophytic) plants can survive.

    Tropical-Subtropical Desert Division (Bailey) 2009

  • Bottom-land and terrace soils of the Copper and Susitna Rivers are stratified, well-drained Entisols without pedogenic horizons.

    Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey) 2009

  • The soils of the semi-desert shrub are Aridisols with little organic content, pedogenic and (occasionally) clay horizons, and (in some places) accumulations of various salts.

    Temperate Steppe Division (Bailey) 2009

  • Laterization is a pedogenic process common to soils found in tropical and subtropical environments.

    Soil 2008

  • Gleization is a pedogenic process associated with poor drainage.

    Soil 2008

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