Unit 3 Home
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Do Unit on Soil Genesis and
Development
http://plantandsoil.unl.edu/croptechnology2005/soil_sci/
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| What
is Soil? - a PowerPoint presentation/discussion |
Factors of Soil Formation (ppt file),
p. 123
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| 3.0
Does
Soil Affect Land Value (Student Presentation) |
3.2 Parent
materials - the stuff in which soils form, pp. 124-125
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| Last
Ice Age impact on Rio Grande Valley |
Landscape Evolution: Sunday Canyon
and Vegetation |
| 3.3 Physical and
Chemical Weathering (pdf file) |
3.1 High Plains Ecoregions (pdf file)
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3.1
High Plains Soils overview (pdf file)
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3.3 Soil Formation Processes (pdf
file)
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3.4
Master Horizons
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3.4 Soil Classification Diagnostic
Horizons (pdf file)
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Moisture
and Temperature Regimes (pdf file)
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Soil
Taxonomy: Levels and Key, p. 127
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3.4.5.4
Classification
Concepts Chart (pdf file), p. 126
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3.4.5.4.1
Classification
Key Sequence, p. 127
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3.4.5.7
Key to Class Taxonomy Exercise, p. 131
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| 3.4.5.8
State Soils Characteristics |
Key to
Lab Taxonomy Exercise, Lab
Manual, pp. 24-26
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3.4.5 Soil Orders of Texas
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3.4.5
Soil Morphology: Texas High Plains vs. Iowa, Illinois (pdf file)
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| 3.4 Twelve Soil Orders:
University of Idaho summary |
3.5.1 Aeration
(ppt file) |
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| Quiz 6 Key,
Factors of soil formation,
Posted 3-19-2006 |
Quiz 7 Key,
Taxonomy, Posted 3-29-2006 |
Exam 3
Review Solutions, p. 139
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Quiz 7
Key, Taxonomy, Posted 3-30-2007 |
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External Links
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3.2,
3.2.2 Alluvial Vertical and Horizontal
Stratification |
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3.4
Dirt
pudding Recipes and
Pictures |
| 3.4.5.4.1 Vertisols:
Slickensides
and gilgai |
3.5.1.3.5.3 Soil
Color |
| List of State Soils:
NRCS |
FFA CDE Land Evaluation
Rules, 2008 |
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