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pedology|pɛ-, pɪˈdɒlədʒɪ|
[f. pedo- + -ology. Cf. G. pedologie (e.g. F. A. Fallou Pedologie (1862) 1. 9), Russ. pedológiya (e.g. Entsikl. Slovar´ (1898) XXIVa s.v. pochvovedenie; Pochvovedenie (1900) II. 140, (1902) IV. 1; the Fr. title of this periodical was La Pédologie from its inception in 1899).
The usual Russ. word for the subject has always been pochvovédenie, lit. ‘soil science’ (cf. G. bodenkunde, given by Fallou as a synonym of pedologie). The Eng. word pedology occurs in the galley proofs of an unpublished dict. of c 1900–10, according to L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms (1961) 358, but prob. only in reference to foreign equivalents.]
The scientific study of soil, esp. its formation, nature, and classification; soil science.
[1923M. M. McCool et al. in Soil Sci. XVI. 106 It places soil study on a natural basis and in fact lays the foundation of a new science which we might name, podology.] 1924G. W. Robinson in Geol. Mag. LXI. 444 (heading) Pedology as a branch of geology. [Note] The writer ventures to hope that this convenient term (Gr. πέδον = soil or earth) will be more generally used to describe the scientific study of soils. 1926Tansley & Chipp Study of Vegetation vii. 114 The science of the soil (sometimes called pedology) has made very great strides within the past quarter of a century. 1938A. B. Yolland tr. A. A. J. de Sigmond's Princ. Soil Sci. 1 The first to try to liberate soil science from this position was the German geologist Frederick Augustus Fallon, who, however, by basing his soil classification upon geological-petrographic principles unconsciously subordinated pedology to geology. 1958I. W. Cornwall Soils for Archaeologist 13 For information about the earth the archaeologist turns first to the sciences of geology, geography and pedology (soil-science). 1973Nature 27 July p. ii/1 (Advt.), Scientists interested in sediments and in allied fields such as pedology, geomorphology, soils engineering and cement technology will find in this book a valuable research tool.
Hence pedoˈlogic, -ˈlogical adjs., of or pertaining to pedology or soil; pedoˈlogically adv., in pedological terms; as regards pedology; peˈdologist, one who studies pedology.
1924Geol. Mag. LXI. 450 Among mature soils, i.e. among soils which have reached a state of pedological equilibrium. Ibid. 454 The remaining class in Glinka's scheme is only of limited interest for western European pedologists. 1927C. F. Marbut tr. Glinka's Great Soil Groups 5 The distribution of such soil units also would be the same as that of the rocks from which derived and would be petrographic rather than pedologic. 1932Proc. & Papers 2nd Internat. Congr. Soil Sci. V. 1 If it be pedologically justifiable to grant the type status to podzols. 1945Antiquity XIX. 172 The pedological characters of Anglesey by which vegetation would be affected and to a large extent controlled. 1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation ix. 192 Sedimentation in these basins..depends to a large extent on the pedologic evolution of the continents. 1964R. Feys in A. E. M. Nairn Probl. Palaeoclimatol. iii. 68 The sandstone is derived from sand which has been pedologically altered and mechanically sorted. 1972J. G. Cruickshank Soil Geogr. v. 159 The Marbut classification also influenced pedologists on an international level because it was discussed at international soil congresses in 1927, 1932, and 1935. 1974Nature 4 Jan. 74/1 There was no known method by which termites or pedological processes could bring about the observed accumulation of calcium carbonate in termite mounds. |