The land’s thin skin
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The land’s thin skin
A soil may be a few centimetres or several metres deep. Underlying it will be solid or fractured rock, or gravel. Even the deepest soils are only a relatively thin layer over the land’s surface. Most plants get their nourishment from the soil layer, close to the surface.
Whai muri
Massey University
Photograph by Alan Palmer
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