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- uncountableThe process of making something soil.
Eitel et al. (2006) suggested that the calcrete formation indicates past soilization associated with the surface of the soil and decreasing precipitations.
2010, Kazuharu Mizuno, editor, Historical change and its problem on the relationship between natural environments and human activities in southern Africa (African study monographs: Supplementary issue; 40), Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, page 622 more examples
My choicest books, articles of bijouterie—the gifts of other days—engravings, scrap books, collections of herbals and algie, lie within reach of little hands, not sealed books or tabooed articles, but unharmed by any particular marks of spoliation and soilization.
1854, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, volume 9, Luthur Tucker, page 382The proposition of desert “soilization” is based on the realization of sand “soilization,” which presents a promising alternative to the prevailing methods of desert control.
2016, Zhijian Yi, Chaohua Zhao, “Desert “Soilization”: An Eco-Mechanical Solution to Desertification”, in Engineering, Beijing: Higher Education Press, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2019
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