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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 ...
The concentration of salts dissolved in water, measured in parts per thousand. Seawater averages 34 ppt.
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A largely unconscious but highly potent hatred for the Earth and, by extension, embodied, carnal living.
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The ancient granitic and metamorphic rock that constitutes continental crust and the continental shield.
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A vertebrate whose skull contains no side openings behind the eyes. The only living examples are turtles.
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Networks of channels that transport nutrients, fluids, and wastes. The circulatory system is an example.
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Soil aggregation. "Good tilth" means it clumps properly for planting but is porous enough to let air in.
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An organism that eats dead organisms, thereby recycling the nutrients. Fungi and bacteria are examples.
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A temperature rise that threatens an ecosystem, particularly one in which organisms breed or give birth.
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A gradually sloping bedrock surface at the alluvial foot of eroded mountains. Often seen in dry regions.
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A solid, rubbery, waxy substance often found in shale. Under pressure it turns into a tarry hydrocarbon.
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