soil profile

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   a vertical section of soil from the ground surface to the parent rock

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Questions about soil profile

What does soil profile mean?

soil profile means "a vertical section of soil from the ground surface to the parent rock".

Is soil profile a common word?

soil profile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.