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Low Level Nature Reserve

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Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Low Level Nature Reserve
Phone:
+61 8 8972 5500

Address:
Victoria Highway | Three kilometres south of Katherine, Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life. Earth's body of soil is the pedosphere, which has four important functions: it is a medium for plant growth; it is a means of water storage, supply and purification; it is a modifier of Earth's atmosphere; it is a habitat for organisms; all of which, in turn, modify the soil. The pedosphere interfaces with the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the biosphere. The term pedolith, used commonly to refer to the soil, translates to ground stone. Soil consists of a solid phase of minerals and organic matter , as well as a porous phase that holds gases and water . Accordingly, soils are often treated as a three-state system of solids, liquids, and gases.Soil is a product of the influence of climate, relief , organisms, and its parent materials interacting over time. It continually undergoes development by way of numerous physical, chemical and biological processes, which include weathering with associated erosion. Given its complexity and strong internal connectedness, it is considered an ecosystem by soil ecologists.Most soils have a dry bulk density between 1.1 and 1.6 g/cm3, while the soil particle density is much higher, in the range of 2.6 to 2.7 g/cm3. Little of the soil of planet Earth is older than the Pleistocene and none is older than the Cenozoic, although fossilized soils are preserved from as far back as the Archean.Soil science has two basic branches of study: edaphology and pedology. Edaphology is concerned with the influence of soils on living things. Pedology is focused on the formation, description , and classification of soils in their natural environment. In engineering terms, soil is included in the broader concept of regolith, which also includes other loose material that lies above the bedrock, as can be found on the Moon and other celestial objects, as well. Soil is also commonly referred to as earth or dirt; some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to the displaced soil.
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