( Ped.). A group of soils that always occur in association with one another in some characteristic pattern related to topographical factors. ( Anton. Mosaic. ( BCFT).
A sequence of soils of about the same age, derived from similar parent material, and occurring under similar climatic conditions, but having different characteristics due to variation in relief and in drainage. Also referred to as a toposequence.
The "chain" of degrees by which relative existence approaches closer and closer to actual individual existence. Each "link" is one type of degenerate Secondness.
A sequence, or "chain" of soils on a landscape that formed in similar types of parent material but have different characteristics as a result of differences in relief and drainage.
catenae (Gr., and Lat., chains): term used from the fifteen century onward to describe exegetical fragments commenting upon biblical texts (see cat 33).