turbation

English

Etymology

From Latin turbātiō, turbātiōnem (“disturbance; confusion”).

Noun

turbation (countable and uncountable, plural turbations)

1. (geology) The mixing of soil or sediment, especially pedoturbation.
   • 1980, Hans Jenny, “Swelling, Shrinking, and their Turbations”, in The Soil Resource: Origin and Behavior‎^[1], page 157:

     With the onset of the rainy season, swelling closes the cracks, more rapidly in the upper horizons than further down. Trapped material eventually expands inside the soil body causing distortion, convulsion, and churning of the mass (turbation).

Derived terms

• aeroturbation
• anthroturbation
• aquaturbation
• argilliturbation
• biopedturbation
• cryopedoturbation
• cryoturbation
• crystalturbation
• faunalturbation
• floralturbation
• graviturbation
• pedoturbation
• seismiturbation

Anagrams

• intubator