单词 | rendzina |
释义 | rendzinan. Soil Science. A fertile, lime-rich soil which occurs typically under grass or open woodland on relatively soft calcareous bedrock (e.g. chalk and some limestones) and has a dark, crumbly, humus-rich surface layer above a softer, pale, calcareous layer formed by the breakdown of the underlying rock. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > other soils white earth1448 Chiltern?1530 light land1589 deads1653 rosil1691 moorland1753 prairie soil1817 residuum1828 rendzina1905 podzol1908 solonetz1924 solod1925 solonchak1925 pedalfer1928 pedocal1928 skeletal soil1932 peloid1933 sierozem1934 planosol1938 lithosol1939 regosol1949 andosol1958 Alfisol1960 Aridisol1960 Histosol1960 Spodosol1960 Andisol1978 1905 Exper. Station Rec. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 16 343 (heading) The humus calcareous soils (rendzinas) of the Vistula region. 1927 C. F. Marbut tr. K. D. Glinka Great Soil Groups 34 The humus carbonate soils such as the Rendzinas..constitute a good example of the influence of the parent rock on the soil forming process. 1946 H. J. Lutz & R. F. Chandler Forest Soils xi. 386 Highly calcareous materials frequently give rise to immature soils called rendzinas. 1971 Nature 13 Aug. 453/1 The flora has survived..in Teesdale partly on rendzina soils associated with rotted crystalline marble on Widdybank and Cronkley fells. 2005 Ecology 86 782/1 Archaeophytes are preferentially represented on calcareous and dry soils such as rendzina, chernozem, and regosol. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1905 |
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