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  2. National Cooperative Soil Survey - Wikipedia

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    The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust ...

  3. Soil survey - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, these surveys were once published in book form for individual counties by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. Today, soil surveys are no longer published in book form; they are published to the web and accessed on NRCS Web Soil Survey where a person can create a custom soil survey. This allows for rapid flow of the ...

  4. Natural Resources Conservation Service - Wikipedia

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    There is a long history of the federal Soil Survey Program, [26] including federal scientists and cooperators working through the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS). [27] Soil survey products include the Web Soil Survey, [28] the NCSS Characterization Database [29] and many investigative reports and journal articles. [30] In 2015 NRCS ...

  5. List of geoscience organizations - Wikipedia

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    National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists (NABGG) [7] National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics; National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) – Program to understand and manage US soils; National Speleological Society (NSS) – Organization for exploration, conservation, and study of caves in the United States

  6. USDA soil taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for the different soil orders include properties that reflect major differences in the genesis of soils. [4] The orders are: Alfisol – soils with aluminium and iron. They have horizons of clay accumulation, and form where there is enough moisture and warmth for at least three months of plant growth. They constitute 10% of soils ...

  7. Subaqueous soil - Wikipedia

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    The National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) is a nationwide partnership of Federal, regional, State, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United ...

  8. Federal Geographic Data Committee - Wikipedia

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    Any agency that collects, produces, acquires, maintains, distributes, uses, or preserves any form of spatial data either directly or indirectly with any other agency or organization must follow the policies set forth by the circular. The following exemplary list is representative of the kinds of systems to which the circular applies:

  9. Curtis F. Marbut - Wikipedia

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    The land-grant universities had always been close partners in National Cooperative Soil Surveys and by 1920 most soil surveyors were graduates of these universities and other agricultural colleges with training in soils and crops. In 1920 Marbut began his work on a soil classification scheme.