Soils, Drainage and Runoff Lab Experiment

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Soils, Drainage and Runoff Goal 1: Classify soils by grain size Watch this video first to learn how to use plot soil components on a ternary diagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4xndouxWPY 1.... If a soil survey tells you that you have a ‘sandy clay loam’ on your property, what does your soil have in most abundance: sand, silt or clay? It has a high percentage of sand 2. If you send your soil out for a test and find out that it contains 75% silt and 25% clay, what kind of soil do you have? It results in a silt loam. 3. Pure loam is considered to be the best kind of soil for a farm or garden and is often defined as a soil with roughly equal proportions of sand, silt, and clay. Is that what the diagram shows? Its is a soil with roughly equal proportions of san [Show More]

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