bioturbation

Noun

Meaning

bioturbation (countable and uncountable, plural bioturbations)

(geology) the mixing of soil or sediment by living organisms

Examples

No single axis of causality can be discerned to segregate the biological from geomorphological systems in soils. citation citation Paleoecological studies of soils places the origin for bioturbation to a time before the Cambrian period. Source: Internet

This burrowing is called bioturbation by sedimentologists. Source: Internet

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