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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
A substance that fosters cancer, an illness characterized by cells that cannot quit dividing in a kind of biological nation-statism.
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A path from which an observer records the apparent gradient of change in animal or plant species: which, where, numbers, densities.
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Extensive, artificial earth movement that exposes the underlying soils. Also, to nick and weaken a seed coat enough for germination.
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A coevolutionary relationship between species (usually animal species) that benefits one without significantly impacting the other.
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An organisms whose cells lack a nucleus. Roughly synonymous with bacteria, but divided into eubacteria and archaeans. See Eukaryote.
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A more or less permanent body of ice compacted from recrystallized snow that expands or contracts depending on gravity and climate.
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The amount of oxygen required to dissolve and decompose organic matter. A water quality measurement often applied to treated sewage.
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The more or less level sedimentary interval from the shore to the continental slope that leads deeply downward to the ocean floor.
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A period of summer or winter metabolic slowdown in animals, plants, or seeds that need to conserve energy in inhospitable seasons.
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Alteration of rock by localized high temperatures and fluids circulating near a cooling mass of extrusive igneous rock (a pluton).
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