Where in the Soil World Are You?
Clue 1 - What’s all this gray stuff? Ash? Clue 2 - Oops! Someone lost her flip-flop. Clue 3 - Why are some dark layers of topsoil buried? |
Clue 1 - Brrrrr! It’s icy way down here! Clue 2 - Is that a woolly mammoth tusk? Clue 3 - Lots of dark brown plant compost is slowly decaying. |
Clue 1 - These long roots are “home on the range.” Clue 2 - Did a gaucho lose his spur? Clue 3 - The topsoil is deep, dark, and fertile. |
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- Inceptisol profile
- Hari Eswaran/USDA NRCS