Sunday, April 24, 2011

Soil Map


source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_map

A soil map shows the properties of multiple depths of soil such as pH, type, composition, texture, etc. These maps are great for determining soil quality of an area of viability of a particular land use such as agriculture or even engineering (like a building). The image above shoes a variety of parameters of a particular area of soil including the depth recorded and soil profile.

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