Parent material definition

Parent material means the mineral matter that is in its present position through deposition by water, wind, gravity or by decomposition of rock and exposed at the land surface or overlain by soil or saprolite.
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Parent material means the mineral and organic matter that is in its present position through rock decomposition or deposition by water, wind, or gravity.
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Parent material means weathering fragments of bedrock underlying a soil, colluvial or alluvial deposits, loess deposits, or glacial tills from which the soil is being formed.
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Examples of Parent material in a sentence

  • Parent material comprises quartzite sandstone, shale and gneisses amongst others.

  • According to Manning (2002) Renamo’s strength in the early period of the conflict resulted from “its ability to create no-go zones for government forces, to attack infrastructure, and to disrupt commerce and other traffic” (p.39).

  • Parent material is the unconsolidated material, mineral or organic, from which the soil develops.

  • Parent material is to be stored separated away from the topsoil and subsoil piles.

  • Parent material The unconsolidated more or less chemically weathered mineral or organic matter from which the solum of soils is developed by pedogenic processes.

  • Parent material consists of the C horizon and may or may not consist of materials similar to those from which the A and B horizons developed.

  • Parent material was determined from a combination of USGS geologic maps (U.S.G.S.2010a; U.S.G.S. 2010b), NRCS soil series descriptions (Soil Survey Staff 2010), and soil pit observations.

  • Vitousek P, Dixon JL, Chadwick OA (2016) Parent material and pedogenic thresholds: Observations and a simple model.

  • Variation of plastic properties (true stress and strain) with temperature: a) Parent material, and b) Weld material.

  • Parent material is not rooting material and should never be spread over the ROW.


More Definitions of Parent material

Parent material means the mineral and organic matter that is in its present position through rock
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Parent material means the mineral matter that is in its present position through deposition by
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Parent material means the native unconsolidated mate- rial which overlies the bedrock.
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Parent material means the mineral matter that is in its present position through
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