Soil Orders

 

One of the ways to examine soils is by looking at the soil color- one way we find the soils is the Munsell soil color chart. The picture above is a page of that.  We went around campus collecting soil.. Which I enjoyed. Then we brought them back and tried to find out what type of soil we had. Soil is different because of of the amount of sand and different minerals in them.

This is a Soil Map of Georgia. All the colors from the Munsell Chart can be clearly seem. 

This is a soil texture Dichotomous key. You can see how soils made out of different combinations of things turn out to look and feel so different.