UD's Soils Judging Team traveled to the National Soils Judging competition this past semester after taking first place at the regional competition in Pennsylvania. The team utilized this past year to ...

Soil scientists call this layer the "A-horizon." It's the "black, organic, rich soil that's really good for growing crops," says Evan Thaler, a Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts ...

In the Av soil horizon, fine dust particles settle and pockets of air form beneath the soil. These cavities trap water at the surface to be used by soil microbes and desert plants when it's needed ...

Chicago, Feb. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Soil monitoring refers to the systematic process of observing, measuring, and analyzing various parameters related to soil health and quality over time.

O horizon: This is the top layer of soil that is made up of living and decomposed materials like leaves, plants, and bugs. This layer is very thin and is usually pretty dark.

A spodosol has a gray horizon from which acids have leached nutrients, depositing it in the reddish horizon below. Photo by Audrey Clark. Editor’s note: Landscape Confidential is an occasional ...

To really know a soil, it's not what you see, but what you can't see. That's why the U.S. Soil Survey is such a valuable resource ... One term often used in the survey is "soil horizon".

Disturbance legacies and shifting trajectories: Marsh soil strength and shoreline erosion a decade after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Environmental Pollution . Published online January 25 ...