ATTENTION PLEASE!!!!
>> Wednesday, September 30, 2009
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON :
Day : 6 Oct 09 (Tuesday)
Time : 2.30 pm
Venue : Library
Activities : Discuss about compose fertilizer presentation
p/s: Bring along your notebook
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Soil formation,pedogenesis or , is the combined effect of physical, chemical, biological, and anthropogenic processes on soil parent material. Soil genesis involves processes that develop layers or horizons in the soil profile. These processes involve additions, losses, transformations and translocation of material that compose the soil. Minerals derived from weathered rocks undergo changes that cause the formation of secondary minerals and other compounds that are variably soluble in water, these constitutes are moved (translocated) from one area of the soil to other areas by water and animal activity. The alteration and movement of materials within soil causes the formation of distinctive soil horizons. The weathering of bedrock produces the parent material from which soils form. An example of soil development from bare rock occurs on recent lava flows in warm regions under heavy and very frequent rainfall. In such climates, plants become established very quickly on basaltic lava, even though there is very little organic material. The plants are supported by the porous rock becoming filled with nutrient bearing water, for example carrying dissolved bird droppings or guano. The developing plant roots, themselves or associated with mycorrhizal fungi,gradually break up the porous lava, and organic matter soon accumulates. But even before it does, the predominantly porous broken lava in which the plant roots grow can be considered a soil. How the soil "life" cycle proceeds is influenced by at least five classic soil forming factors that are dynamically intertwined in shaping the way soil is developed, they include: parent material, regional climate, topography, biotic potential and the passage of time.
-Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations.
-A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock become completely saturated with water is called the water table.
-Groundwater is recharged from, and eventually flows to, the surface naturally; natural discharge often occurs at springs and seeps, and can form oases or wetlands.
-Groundwater is also often withdrawn for agricultural, municipal and industrial use by constructing and operating extraction wells.
-The study of the distribution and movement of groundwater is hydrogeology, also called groundwater hydrology.
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