The mineral component of soil is made up of clay, silt, and sand particles. The relative amounts of these materials are what we use to describe the texture of a soil or soil type. The best way to ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Downwind vegetation traps some of the entrained silt and clay as dust coatings on leaves, stems, trunks, and the soil surface. Trapping is especially effective when the vegetation is moist with ...

The relative ability of soils to store one particular group of nutrients, the cations, is referred to as cation exchange capacity or CEC. Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and ...

They also need good drainage to avoid becoming waterlogged. Loam or silt-based soils are ideal, providing the right mix of drainage and nutrients. Clay soils also provide excellent nutrition for ...

Eluviation is the removal of soil, clay, silt or fine organic matter in suspension from a soil horizon. The iron and aluminium oxides collect in the 'B' horizon where the iron oxides can ...