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  2. Subsoil - Wikipedia

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    Subsoil layer. Subsoil is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground. Like topsoil, it is composed of a variable mixture of small particles such as sand, silt and clay, but with a much lower percentage of organic matter and humus. The subsoil is labeled the B Horizon in most soil mapping systems.

  3. Subsoil (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Subsoil" is a short story by American writer Nicholson Baker, which first appeared in The New Yorker periodical on June 27, 1994. [ 1 ] The story is about a man who meets his doom after being assaulted and forced by attacking, sprouting potatoes that lure agriculturalists into their sleepy Krebs Cycle .

  4. English literature - Wikipedia

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    English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.

  5. Soil horizon - Wikipedia

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    The B horizon is commonly referred to as "subsoil" and consists of mineral layers which are significantly altered by pedogenesis, mostly with the formation of iron oxides and clay minerals. It is usually brownish or reddish due to the iron oxides, which increases the chroma of the subsoil to a degree that it can be distinguished from the other ...

  6. Biography in literature - Wikipedia

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    The close relationship between writers and their work relies on ideas that connect human psychology and literature and can be examined through psychoanalytic theory. [3] Literary biography may address subject-authors whose oeuvre contains a plethora of autobiographical information and who welcome the biographical analysis of their work.

  7. Subsoiler - Wikipedia

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    Subsoiling is a slow operation and requires high power input: 60 to 100 horsepower (45 to 75 kW) to pull a single subsoil point through a hard soil. Typically, a subsoiler mounted on a compact utility tractor will reach depths of about 30 cm (12 in) and have only one thin blade with a sharpened tip.

  8. James Boswell - Wikipedia

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    James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ɛ l,-w əl /; 29 October 1740 [1] – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.

  9. Podzol - Wikipedia

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    Immobilization and stabilization of organic matter, Fe and Al into the subsoil. [ 11 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Podzol A layers In the topsoil of acidic soils, organic matter (mostly from plant litter , the humus layer and root exudates ) together with Al- and Fe-ions, form organo-mineral complexes.