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- Definition soil with properties modified as a result of human activity, whether by design or unintentionally, including soil modifications that may significantly influence soil development Reference COM-EN, based on Canarache, A, Vintila, I and Munteanu, I (2006), Elsevier’s Dictionary of Soil Science: In English (with definitions), French, German and Spanish, Burlington, San Diego and London.
- Comment Anthropogenic soils include (a) soils having a profile strongly modified by cultivation, (b) soils affected by construction or by land improvement such as levelling and terracing, (c) surface soil materials resulting from different kinds of human activities, such as land filling, mining and waste disposal.