Visiting the Calhoun CZO. Note the young loblolly pine and the massive soil pit. Dan Richter for scale.
X-ray diffracting soil to determine the mineral composition.
Nice Inceptisol developing from a blue schist parent material.
A little message from a student
A wild Bkk horizon in an Aridisol in the Mojave Desert.
Check out this E horizon on this Spodosol!
Dr. Andy Friedland's Inductively Couple Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer with the plasma fired up!
A Spodosol developing on top of a very flat bedrock layer.
My hometown soil: Alfisol. The 'A' marks the A horizon. The '*' indicates a back filled burrow or krotovina. The '^' indicates a clay lamellae from downward leaching.
An Inceptisol at UVM's farm. Check out how deep the A horizon is from earthworm acitivity.
A monolith freshly collected from the field.
Measuring particle size is a beautiful thing.