This is dedicated to Sravan (Shravan M V). Thanks to his interests in soil, this topic Soil, is really interesting. Though it sounds bore to you, or sounds something like nonsense. But just read on.
The important components which we totally depend on are Land (soil), Water, Air, and Fire (sun). As you all know the importance of air, water and fire. I am writing this article Soil to tell you its importance in brief. Truly speaking, we wouldn’t have existed without Land or Soil. What? How? When? Why? These are your immediate questions.
Here are the answers. Everything begins with soil and ends with soil only except the birth of living beings. (When I say soil, it has various meanings like sand, rock, stones, or even dust). At the time of dinner or lunch or breakfast, we eat different delicacies of food. Ever wonder from where that food has come? Of course, Soil only. Vegetables, Fruits, rice, wheat, cereals, everything was grown and taken from the soil. Right?
And every house, every brick or block, needs soil/sand. The decorative of homes constitutes of the items which began from soil only. Right? For example, different part of tiles- part of the soil, curtains and dresses- the threads we make were taken from trees or silk worms which depend on soil. Similarly on books, furniture, etc.
Other items such as Plastics, rubbers, steel etc contain certain amount of soil in the form of sand. Although we haven’t seen its constituents in our text books but it has been proved scientifically that without these very small amounts of sand or silica required, these items wouldn’t have existed.
Gold, Silver, Diamonds, and all precious gems came from the soil. Right? If not, then check out its constituents.
We also depend upon Electronic items like laptops, PCs, Mobiles, and so on. And there is lot of development in Technology especially Nano-technology. Inside it, contains Semi-Conductors of high speeds which are made of Silica, nothing but Sand.
Beneath our earth, contains core, mantle and crust which are nothing but different forms of soil in various shapes and size, developing gravitational force, putting all of us including, electronic signal waves, cars, etc in place.
Why? We stand our own feet on the ground, which is nothing but Soil. At the time of our deaths, we know where we will end up.
At the same time, you must know. Soil isn’t just about soil. It has life too. Beneath your feet, ground, we cannot predict the nature of the soil. It changes frequently at slow pace without our notice. For your nightmares, think about earthquakes, land slides, or quick sand. It is also amazing to know that, soil changes too, like how we change. And it is totally unpredictable, like we are unpredictable in our minds.
Which is why, from our engineer’s point of view, Geo-technical, Geo-environmental, Geology Engineers were born. To learn about it, its behaviour and to warn us if there are any problem that are about to show up. They also do many things, wonderful things, and that’s the reason why we could see high rise buildings or sky scrappers today. Because all things depends on ground, our sole foundation of our rising future.