Suppose we have found that the ocean floor contains sediments, and decayed animal/plant material. Is this considered to be SOIL?
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Every definition I know defines soil as part of a terrestrial (land-based) system, rather than an aquatic (water-based) system. The materials on the ocean floor may be future sedimentary rocks that could, after an uplift or a recession of the sea level, eventually weather to become parent materials in which a soil forms, but they are not soil.
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