Cryosol | Soil Monoliths Cryosols (or Gelisols in USDA Soil Taxonomy) have permafrost either within 1 m of the surface or within 2 m if the pedon is strongly cryoturbated in the active layer. Monoliths.soilweb.ca
Among the ancient Greeks, Homer thought the world to be flat. In contrast, Pythagoras postulated that the earth was round. A century later, Aristotle sided with the theory of the roundness of the earth.
No, Galileo is credited with discovering the telescope. The discovery that the Earth was round was thousands of years earlier. He did agree with Copernicus that the earth revo â¦ lved around the sun. Around 150 AD, Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek geographer, drew maps that showed the earth as curved.