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Soil types by clay, silt and sand composition as used by the United States Department of Agriculture. Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size > 63 micrometres (0.0025 in)), silt (particle size > 2 micrometres (7.9 × 10 −5 in)), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < 2 micrometres (7.9 × 10 −5 in)).
A typical Natchez soil profile consists of a 3-inch (7.6 cm) top soil of dark grayish brown silt loam and to 8 inches (20 cm), a subsurface of brown silt loam, a yellowish brown and dark yellowish brown silt loam subsoil to 36 inches (91 cm) and a substratum that is yellowish brown, and dark yellowish brown silt loam down to 80 inches (200 cm).
English: Soil profile from an exposed hillside containing silt, loam, and clay by a creek. Date: ... The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages ...
Loam is a type of soil. Loam or LOAM may also refer to: LOAM, the Louisiana Midland Railroad; Loam, a wine bar in Galway, Ireland; Michael Loam (1797–1871), British engineer; The Earl of Loam, a fictional character from The Admirable Crichton
A soil type is a taxonomic unit in soil science. All soils that share a certain set of well-defined properties form a distinctive soil type. [1] Soil type is a technical term of soil classification, the science that deals with the systematic categorization of soils. Every soil of the world belongs to a certain soil type. Soil type is an ...
Berkshire soil series is the name given to a well-drained loam or sandy loam soil which has developed on glacial till in parts of southern Quebec, eastern New York State and New England south to Massachusetts.
Brickearth is a superficial deposit of homogeneous loam or silt [3] deposited during the Pleistocene geological period. [4] Brickearth typically occurs in discontinuous spreads, across southern England and South Wales, south of a line from Pembroke in the west to Essex in the east in depths of up to a metre.
Blandford soil series is the name given to a loam or sandy loam soil which has developed on glacial till in parts of southern Quebec and northern New England.It belongs to the brown podzolic soil group and occurs in hilly areas of the Green Mountains in Vermont plus the adjoining Sutton Mountains in Quebec.