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- Are Laterites Caused by the Alkaline Gut of Termites? - It is proposed that latisols (ultisols) are caused by the extremely alkaline midgut of humus eating termites.
members.tripod.com/~charles_W/laterite.html
- Bulk Density Determination - Detailed description to determine the bulk density of soil.
www.geology.iupui.edu/research/SoilsLab/procedures/bulk/Index.htm
- Canadian Soil Classification - The Canadian Classification (Taxonomy)of soils
interactive.usask.ca/skinteractive/modules/agriculture/soils/soilenv/soilenv_can.html
- Canadian Soil Information System - Information on soil surveys and analysis but also on the Environmental Sustainablility of Canadian Agriculture.
sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/intro.html
- FAO - Soil Unit Classification Scheme -
www.gsf.de/UFIS/ufis/thesaur/soil.html
- Global Soil Regions - Map showing world wide distribution of soil types.
www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/WSR/mapindx/metadata/Maps/ORDERS.JPG
- Major Soils of Tuapaka Farm, New Zealand - Information, soil characterization and description and soil use. From Massey University. Photos.
its-proxy1.massey.ac.nz/soils-earth/tuapaka/tuapaka.htm
- National Soil Survey Center - Provides soil survey program technical leadership and coordination, and state-of-the-art soil survey technology, standards, data, and expertise. The survey program helps people understand soils and the response to a variety of natural and human influences.
www.statlab.iastate.edu:80/soils-info/nssc
- Soil Map of Ireland - In color or black and white.
www.ucd.ie/~agmet/Publications/Atlas/Soils_colour.html
- Soil Map of Italy - An ongoing project to develop a updated soil map.
web.tiscali.it/adanto/forum/english/eforumhome.htm
- Soil Micromorphology Links - Micromorphology is the branch of soil science that is concerned with the description, interpretation and the measurement of components, features and fabrics in soils at a microscopic level.
www.soils.org/divs/s9/micromorph/micro.html
- Soil Profile - Illustrative description of how to make a soil profile. Includes horizons, color, texture, structure, consistency, boundary and other features.
quarles.unbc.edu/nres/soc/profiles/slides.htm
- Soil profiles of Europe - Pictures and descriptions of commen soil types found in Central Europe.
www.uni-soilsci.gwdg.de/en/soilsidx.html
- Soil Resource Database for Saskatchewan - This database characterizes over 200 different soil associations with over 5000 different map units of all soil types and 80,000 mapped soil polygons (soil areas). This database provides information on physical and chemical attributes of the soil, landscape characteristics, and interpretive data.
interactive.usask.ca/skinteractive/modules/agriculture/soils/soilmap/index.html
- Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO) - Digitized soil maps. Designed for use by landowners, townships, and county natural resource planning and management.
www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/ssur_data.html
- Soil Survey Information for Massachusetts and New England - Featuring soil information, ground penetrating radar, GIS, and soil profile photos.
nesoil.com/index.html
- Soil Survey Map of the Maritime Provinces - Canada.
www.gov.nf.ca/agric/pubfact/Fertility/figure2.jpg
- Soil Taxonomy Forum - Online discussion
www.statlab.iastate.edu:2000/wwwboard/soilt.html
- Soils and Soil Types - Maps showing U.S. land area in different soilorders.
www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/index/soils.html
- Soils Data - Data and other resources on soils, soil taxonomy, U.S. soil surveys, related topics.
www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/soils_data.html
- Soils of Canada - A preliminary collection of soil profiles representing the twenty Great Groups in the Canadian System of Soil Classification. Includes descriptions of soils and plants of Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone and the Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir Biogeoclimatic Zone. Many pictures.
quarles.unbc.edu/nres/soc/index.html
- Soils of Israel - A set of images to illustrate the soils of the aridic part of Israel. Includes a description list of the soil groups in English and Hebrew. Also available is a conversion table from Dan's to both the USDA and FAO classification systems.
ag.arizona.edu/OALS/IALC/soils/israel/israel.html
- Soils Photo Gallery - Contains representative pictures of soil orders plus profile and landscape pictures of more specific soils.
www.statlab.iastate.edu/soils/photogal
- Swedish National Survey of Forest Soils and Vegetation - A long term inventory of permanent sample plots of the Swedish National Forest. Short english summary, the details are in Swedish.
www.sml.slu.se/sk/skeng.htm
- Texture AutoLookup - TAL is a group of programs to determine soil texture classes based on major soil classification schemes (USDA, UK, Canada, International and others).
www.agri.upm.edu.my/~chris/tal
- The Australian Soil Classification - Explains classification schemes in general. Detailed description of australian soil types with glossary and references. Based on a book by the CSIRO.
www.cbr.clw.csiro.au/aclep/asc/soilhome.htm
- The Soils of Pennsylvania - Maps and description.
agguide.agronomy.psu.edu/CM/Sec1/sec11a.htm
- Vertisols - Properties, classification, distribution and management.
www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/WSR/Vertisols/vert-start.html
- Washington State Soils - Interactive maps and pictures.
remotesens.css.wsu.edu/washingtonsoil/index.htm
- World Soil Resources - Global and regional soil maps.
www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/WSR/mapindx/maps.htm
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