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Ressenya a Antonio Cortijo & Vicent Martines (eds.): Multilingual Joan Roís de Corella. The Relevance of a Fifteenth-Century Classic of the Crown…
2013
Ressenya a Antonio Cortijo & Vicent Martines (eds.): Multilingual Joan Roís de Corella. The Relevance of a Fifteenth-Century Classic of the Crown of Aragon / Joan Roís de Corella multilingüe. La importància d’un clàssic de la Corona d’Aragó del segle XV. Santa Bárbara, Publications of eHumanista, 220 pp. ISBN: 78-607-95570-9-6
A view of extraterrestrial soils
2009
International audience; The nature of soils on celestial bodies other than Earth is a growing area of research in planetary geology. However, disagreement over the significance of these deposits arises in part due to the lack of a unified concept and definition of soil in the literature. The pragmatic definition “medium for plant growth” is taken by some to imply the necessity of biota for soil to exist, and has been commonly adopted in the planetary science community. In contrast, a more complex and informative definition bases on scientific theory: soil is the (bio)geochemically/physically altered material at the surface of a planetary body that encompasses surficial extraterrestrial tell…