Soil sealing or soil surface sealing is the
loss of soil resources due to the
covering of land for
housing,
roads or other
construction work.
Covering or replacing the
topsoil with ''
impervious'' materials like
asphalt and
cement as a result of
urban development and infrastructure construction paired with
compaction
Compaction may refer to:
* Soil compaction, for mechanically induced compaction near the ground surface
* Compaction of ceramic powders
* Compaction (geology), part of the process of lithification involving mechanical dewatering of a sediment by ...
of the underlying soil layers results in the mostly irreversible loss of relevant soil
ecosystem services.
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Soil compaction
In geotechnical engineering, soil compaction is the process in which stress applied to a soil causes densification as air is displaced from the pores between the soil grains. When stress is applied that causes densification due to water (or other ...
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Land consumption
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Impervious surface
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