Find some soil and dig a small amount up. Looking at the soil, try to explain what type of soil it is and why.

In its first edition, Soils established itself as the leading textbook in the fields of pedology and soil geomorphology. Expanded and fully updated, this second edition maintains its highly organized ...

You may be surprised to hear that knowing your soil type is more important than you think when nurturing your garden plants.

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...