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… Soil related travel destinations in Germany Experiencing the ground is a part of our experience of … on 26.02.2014 Soils are suitable for painting with earthy colours - here in a workshop run by the BMU in Berlin. Source: S. Marahrens / Umweltbundesamt Does this …

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… from rock – an extremely slow process indeed! Source: S. Marahrens / Umweltbundesamt What is needed above all for soil to develop is time, and of course rock, … for rock containing a large amount of silica, hydrolysis (chemical decomposition) destabilizes the rock structure owing to ion loss from the rock’s crystal lattice. … contents Düngemittel Boden des Jahres Umweltprobenbank des Bundes Internationaler Workshop, Kampala, Uganda – Sept 2017 Raumplanungsrecht Related publications The …

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… science There are numerous types of strong soils. Source: S. Marahrens / Umweltbundesamt Germany has many different kinds of soil, which are studied and described by soil scientists. As in the plant kingdom, a distinction is made between … of our current knowledge of soil processes. One of the tasks of soil science is to describe and systematically investigate soil and all of its various properties. …

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