tepetate
English translation: tepetate
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peer agreement (net): +2tepetate Explanation: Same term. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306... One of the dominant surface materials in the Valley of Mexico is called tepetate, a term which sometimes is used simply as a synonym for caliche. The semantic confusion is traced to the Aztec taxonomic system of earth materials in which consistence rather than color is a primary attribute. Thus, a variety of earth materials may be termed tepetate. As a construction material, tepetate has played a major role in the development of modern Mexico. Tepetate is also marginal agricultural land cultivated under population pressure in the absence of better available land. The associated technology seems to have been developed during pre-Conquest times under similar conditions of population pressure, after tepetate was exposed at the surface through previous misuse of land. JSTOR: Tepetate in the Valley of Mexico OCCURRING throughout central Mexico is an earth material called tepetate by Mexi- can campesinos and scientific investigators as well. English translations ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-5608(197212)62%3A4%3C618%3ATITVOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B - Similar pages Suerte. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 mins (2007-05-23 12:34:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related ... This material is called tepetate in Mexico where, in some areas, all soil overlying tepetate has been removed ... Language, English. Format, Pages: 425-430 ... www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=547... - 13k - Cached - Similar pages http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2446265 Résumé / Abstract The reclamation of volcanic indurated soils called tepetates in Mexico must control soil erosion and generate a good productivity of these new soils according to a sustainable development strategy. This paper shows the results of an european research program involving ORSTOM and the Colegio de Postgraduados en Agrociencas in the eastearn part of the valley of Mexico (Texcoco). Different systems of culture have been studied (mono/associated culture, with/without manure, soil/tepetate, natural/cultivated tepetate, tepetate with deep/normal subsoiling, tillage practice) during four years on a 8 large terraces (700 m[2]). |
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