turbation
nounEtymology From Latin turbātiō, turbātiōnem (“disturbance; confusion”).
- 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).1980, Hans Jenny, “Swelling, Shrinking, and their Turbations”, in The Soil Resource: Origin and Behavior, page 157:
- Derived terms
- aeroturbation, anthroturbation, aquaturbation, argilliturbation, biopedturbation, cryopedoturbation, cryoturbation, crystalturbation, faunalturbation, floralturbation, graviturbation, pedoturbation, seismiturbation
- Related terms
- disturb, disturbance, disturbingly, perturb, perturbation, perturbative, perturbed, perturbedly, turbid, turbidity, turbidly, turbidness, turbine, turbocharged, turbofan, turbojet, turbopause, turbulence, turbulent