The edafología is a scientific branch that emerges from Geology. Specifically, it is in charge of evaluating, studying and comparing soils and determining if their composition affects nature and the organisms that develop on and within it. Being the ground, the enormous platform on which humans and terrestrial animals make their lives, a concise study of the conditions in which it is found must be carried out before making a building or structure useful for daily life, this is the role of Edaphology.
Edaphology studies in depth the composition of the soil and determines very interesting aspects of technical and architectural interest, such as the age of the earth and the sediments that make it up. The soil is basically made up of a rock that is called mother, either because of its size or because of its presence in a study radius, compounds such as carbon dioxide, decomposing living beings that with the passage of time and The onslaught of erosion and climate generate humus Z and many organic and inorganic compounds in different states (solid, liquid and gaseous). If you determine how the process has progressed, you can determine the age and condition of the floor.
Civil engineering uses edaphology in the middle of geological studies prior to the construction of a building, also to make maps of the areas in which it can be built and thus have a graph of the areas suitable and not suitable for the development of urban planning, roads and buildings.
In the history of edaphology we find a great interest in the eighteenth century to perform the classification of soils, not only for construction, but also for the exploration and exploitation of these, since enormous mineral reservoirs can be found in the soils useful for the manufacture and precious stones of all kinds. One of the first scientists to explore soils was the Russian Mikhail Lomonosov, who developed complex pedagogical works on the study of soils and how is the evolution of these and the organisms that develop in them.
