For that matter, the word "pedology" means either the study of child behavior or the study of soil, depending on the context.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #137 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Physical Geography itself can be divided into five main sub-fields: climatology, geomorphology, pedology, biogeography, and hydrology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physical geography] Reference

The tempo of scientific investigation increased rapidly after 1938, with emphasis on specialized fields such as limnology, wildlife management, ecology, pedology and archeology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada] Reference

His main scientific interests are: forest pedology, influence of plants on pedogenesis, mineral weathering in soil, carbon sequestration in forest soils, effects of forest fires on soil properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributor: Giacomo Certini] Reference

Irrigation of many soils, including the commonly-occurring silty or sandy loams, is relatively straight forward and does not call for extensive knowledge of pedology on the part of the irrigation engineer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

At Bowie State University, I am studying pedology because I want to become a child psychologist or counselor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

Soil science, whether edaphology or pedology, is designed to deal with the nature and properties of soils relevant to plant growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stabroek News] Reference

The term "land classification" was - employed, rather than "soil classification. as other factors aside from the type of soil (pedology) were involved, including the cost of bringing water to the particular lands concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Similarly, pedology deals with study of soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

(pedology) as does irrigation of larger holdings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference