A Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information Photo Gallery
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it can't substitute for the sensory experience of studying soil in the field. Still, you may find these attractive and even informative.

• Soil Landscapes of Canada.

  From CanSIS. With beautiful landscape and soil photos, organised by soil region. Canada has plenty of scenery and soils to match.

• USDA-NRCS Soil Survey Division photo gallery

  Includes photos of the state soils for most US states, other soil profiles, typical soil landscapes, and even a thin section; also a link to the NRCS photo gallery

• Maps of the distribution of Soil Taxonomy suborders in the USA.
• Official State Soils
  • New York State Soil (Honeoye) (PDF, 91Kb)
  • North Carolina State Soil (Cecil) (PDF, 339Kb)
• Profiles of representative USA soil series, organized by Soil Taxonomy 8th edition.

  Good quality and with simple descriptions of the soil and its land use. The site also has some landscape pictures, and includes a simple explanation of the central concept of each order. Courtesy of Dr Paul McDaniel at the University of Idaho (US)

• Soil Profiles of New England

  with brief descriptions of each series, from the Plymouth County (MA) Soil Survey

• Google Earth Placemark file of these profiles

  Now this is really cool! Jim Turenne has created Google Earth placemarks showing his profiles (both photos and pedon descriptions). And the background is high-resolution, with plenty of bright red cranberry bogs.

• Videos (!) illustrating the Soil Orders of the Canadian soil classification system

  from the University of Northern British Columbia; professional soil surveyors explain the soils in the field, in the context of their genesis and current land use

• Earth Science World ImageBank

  From the American Geological Institute (AGI); includes a small section on soils but much more on landforms, rocks, and minerals.

• Soil Photo Gallery

  from NASA's Soil Science Education Home Page a popularization of soil science for US schoolchildren

• Fotografías de suelos

  De C. Dorronsoro, Universidad de Granada: Horizontes, propiedades y materiales diagnósticos FAO; estructuras; grupos de suelos; micromorfología. De la misma fuente Atlas de minerales de arenas finas

• Solimage

  Base de données d'images de sol CD-ROM; par Alain Ruellan et Mireille Dosso

Author: D G Rossiter	URL: http://www.itc.nl/personal/rossiter/research/rsrch_ss_img.html
E-Mail: rossiter@itc.nl	Last Updated: 2010_011
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