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underlying geological material in which soil horizons form
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parent material

Summary

parent material ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • parent material's image is recorded as Antigo (soil).jpg[2].
  • parent material's subclass of is recorded as natural material[3].
  • parent material's part of is recorded as soil[4].
  • parent material's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05wlfz[5].
  • parent material's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6].
  • parent material's described by source is recorded as Mala hirnycha encyclopædia[7].
  • parent material's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 155843905[8].
  • parent material's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C155843905[9].
  • parent material's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as pochvoobrazuiushchaia-poroda-5bd84b[10].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for parent material include bedrock[11].

Why It Matters

parent material ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

Entities named for it include bedrock[11].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). parent material. Retrieved April 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/parent-material
MLA “parent material.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/parent-material.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_parent-material_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{parent material}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/parent-material}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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