Talk:Parent material

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I intend to have a major revision of this article. This is my suggested simple definition:

In soil science parent material is one or more geological deposits in which a soil has formed. Parent material is often physically or chemically altered (weathered) due to pedological processes, leading to the formation of soil horizons. In multi-layered soils, horizon boundaries often coincide boundaries between different parent materials.

The parent material forms a natural link between geology and soil science, as its meaning is relatively well understood by both professions.

Most of the definitions of geological materials further down are poor and not relevant, as they should be described under their own headings or in the geology section.

What do we think?

HolgerK 20:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Math notation

Please. WP:MOSMATH exists.

In this article I found this:

2.1 * 10^5

I changed it to this:

2.1 × 10⁵

Using an asterisk for ordinary multiplication outside the context of programming languages is done only by primitive savages. And proper superscripts can be used. Michael Hardy (talk) 01:42, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expanding and citations required

This article has less number of citations kindly provide proper citations and try to improve article according to Wikipedia policies and kindly, expand it and if you allow my self I can certainly help you in expanding it. Thanks.--Faizanalivarya (talk) 16:26, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Parent material

It better be long 197.221.253.137 (talk) 04:35, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]