Some Basic Soil info

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Some Basic Soil info
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Soil Deposit
http//www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/crlb/COURSES/205/Lec
17/lec17.htmlslide4
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Soil Horizons

• O Organic
• A Topsoil
• B Subsoil
• C Parent Material
• R Bedrock

http//www.mo15.nrcs.usda.gov/features/wissoil/ind
ex.html
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More on Soil Horizons
http//www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/crlb/COURSES/205/Lec
17/lec17.htmlslide4
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Soils Triangle
Image from http//homepages.which.net/fred.moor/s
oil/formed/f0107.htm
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http//www.wm.edu/geology/geo305/Lecture15/
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Soil Erosion
http//www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/crlb/COURSES/205/Lec
17/lec17.htmlslide4
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References

• Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. (1999) Soils formation
  and characteristics. http//www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/
  crlb/COURSES/205/Lec17/lec17.htmlslide4
• http//www.mo15.nrcs.usda.gov/features/wissoil/ind
  ex.html
• http//homepages.which.net/fred.moor/soil/formed/
  f0107.htm
• Hancock,G (2001) Soil profiles and horizons.
  http//www.wm.edu/geology/geo305/Lecture15/