Soil provides fibers for clothes to wear
by Antonio Jordán, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
Soil is not only a source of food, but also provides fibers for the production of textiles and clothing. In the picture, Inmaculada is revising the installation of devices in soil for monitoring the release of nutrients from organic fertilizers in a cotton field (Lebrija, SW Spain).
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- Europe (3567)
- Southern Europe (1548)
- Spain (754)
- Exact location (-6.1010 W, 36.9475 N)
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- mediterranean soils (241)
- irrigation (8)
- cropped soil (64)
- arid soils (28)
- saline soil (4)
- organic agriculture (1)
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Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Taken on 19
June
2007
Submitted on Oct. 18, 2015
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Antonio Jordán (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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