Soils from New England prior to combustion. Check out the variety in color!
Calhoun CZO collecting data, solar powered no less.
An Inceptisol at Dartmouth College's Organic Farm along the Connecticut River.
A beautiful edible Spodosol!
This aquic soil in Elmore Vermont shows signs of a high water table with the grey 'gleying' of reduced iron with patches of orange from oxiding iron (like rust).
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.