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English: Figure 5 from The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (curves adjusted in Photoshop to make background white). Caption: Fig. 5 Section, reduced to half the natural scale, of the vegetable mould in a field, drained and reclaimed fifteen years previously; A, turf; B, vegetable mould without any stones; C, mould with fragments of burnt marl, coal-cinders and quartz pebbles; D, sub-soil of black, peaty sand with quartz pebbles.
Date October 1881 (book publication)
Source Scanned from The Works of Charles Darwin edited by Paul H. Barrett & R. B. Freeman, volume 28. (1989) William Pickering, London.
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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