# Birth Of The Soil

Explains how topsoil is produced from rock, water, air and sunlight over a period of many centuries. Contrasts the productivity of topsoil with subsoil.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1948
- By: Encyclopedia Britannica
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0475BirthOfSoil)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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