friable soil

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• friable — adjective Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin friabilis, from friare to crumble more at friction Date: 1563 easily crumbled or pulverized < friable soil > Synonyms: see fragile • friability noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• friable — fri|a|ble [ˈfraıəbəl] adj technical [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: Latin friare to break into very small pieces ] friable rocks or soil are easily broken into very small pieces or into powder …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• friable — adjective technical friable rocks or soil are easily broken into very small pieces or into powder …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• red desert soil — noun : any of a group of zonal soils of warm temperate and tropical deserts that have light reddish brown friable soil over a reddish brown or dull red heavy horizon which grades into an accumulation of calcium carbonate and that supports more or …   Useful english dictionary

• Characterisation of pore space in soil — Soil is essential to most animals on the earth. It is a relatively thin crust where an even smaller portion contains much of the biological activity. Soil consists of three different phases. A solid phase (≈ 20%) that contains mainly minerals of… …   Wikipedia

• Cecil (soil) — with the [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q hl=en geocode= q=http:%2F%2Fsoil science.info%2Fmaps%2FTypic Soil Pedons.kml ie=UTF8 t=h om=1 ll=36.045456, 78.490705 spn=0.029251,0.061669 z=15 typic Cecil pedon] actually located in Franklin County, NC …   Wikipedia

• Narragansett (soil) — Narragansett Coarse loamy over sandy or sandy skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts The (Unofficial) State Soil of Rhode Island, USA Narragansett soils occur on approximately 12,000 acres (49 km²) in Rhode Island and also occur in …   Wikipedia

• Muck (soil) — Muck is a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland. It is known as black soil in The Fens of eastern England, where it was originally mainly fen and bog. It is used there, as in the United States, for growing specialty crops such as …   Wikipedia

• reddish-brown lateritic soil — noun : any of a group of zonal soils developed under humid tropical forest vegetation that have granular dark reddish brown surface soils underlain by reddish friable clay B horizons and red reticulately mottled lateritic parent material …   Useful english dictionary

• loam — loaminess, n. loamless, adj. loamy, adj. /lohm/, n. 1. a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay. 2. a mixture of clay, sand, straw, etc., used in making molds for… …   Universalium

• fragile — 1 Fragile, frangible, brittle, crisp, short, friable mean easily broken. They are, however, not often interchangeable. Fragile (see also WEAK) is applicable to whatever must be handled or treated carefully lest it be broken {a fragile antique… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms