The Basics Of Soils covers some of the various features and facits of soil in general, its' importance and formation.
This topic provides for a basic coverage of soils and can be followed for some more in-depth topics in Understanding Soils and Describing Soils.
We briefly examine the old age issue of need to know.
Basic features and identifying different soils are covered to allow you to understand their commonality as well as differences.
Learn about the methods for describing soils that supports the soil scientist in communicating and identifying about soils.
We provide some powerful and unique interactive tools through the use of flowcharts to help in defining a soil and make the texture triangle interactive to gain an understanding of the relationship of classes and groups defined from their base of Silt, Clay and Sand.
The Basics Of Soils covers some of the various features and facits of soil in general, its' importance and formation.
This topic provides for a basic coverage of soils and can be followed for some more in-depth topics in Understanding Soils and Describing Soils.
The Farm Survey provide you with a practical example of identifying and mapping the soils of an area of land.
This survey is interesting in that it also shows that there can be many types of soils within the one area, which then would require soil management appropriate to each of the soil types.
Regional Soils provides you with soil details for each soil type throughout New Zealand.
This topic provides core data resources including the soils records that you can sort into region, type and claissfication.