it truly is one of the sadder features of soil science that a "pedon" is the smallest three dimensional unit of soil... and that a lot of soils science words are derived from it in ways that make it wildly awkward to non-soils people.
To my friends in soil science,
If your goal remains sharing your peer-reviewed research papers on social media and disucssing them with the public, I might suggest considering changing the name of this journal.
(Yes, I know what the term means in the context of soil.)
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