silty soil
1silty — adjective full of silt silty soil • Similar to: ↑loose • Derivationally related forms: ↑silt …
2Soil texture — is a soil property used to describe the relative proportion of different grain sizes of mineral particles in a soil. Particles are grouped according to their size into what are called soil separates. These separates are typically named clay, silt …
3Soil liquefaction — describes the behavior of loose saturated unconsolidated soils, i.e. loose sands, which go from a solid state to have the consistency of a heavy liquid, or reach a liquefied state as a consequence of increasing porewater pressures, and thus… …
4Soil — For other uses, see Soil (disambiguation). A represents soil; B represents laterite, a regolith; C represents saprolite, a less weathered regolith; the bottommost layer represents bedrock …
5soil — soil1 soilless, adj. /soyl/, n. 1. the portion of the earth s surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus. 2. a particular kind of earth: sandy soil. 3. the ground as producing vegetation or as cultivated for its crops: fertile soil. 4. a… …
6silty clay — noun : a clay soil containing from 50 to 70 percent silt …
7silty clay loam — noun : soil containing from 50 to 80 percent silt …
8Characterisation of pore space in soil — Soil is essential to most animals on the earth. It is a relatively thin crust where an even smaller portion contains much of the biological activity. Soil consists of three different phases. A solid phase (≈ 20%) that contains mainly minerals of… …
9Drummer (soil) — The Drummer soil series is the state soil of Illinois. It was established in Ford County, Illinois, in 1929. Drummer Soil was named for Drummer Creek in Drummer Township. It consists of very deep, poorly drained soils that formed in 40 to 60… …
10Menfro (soil) — Menfro strata Menfro soil is a series of deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils formed in 6 to 20 foot (1.8 to 6.1 m) thick loess deposits. It is found in central and eastern Missouri and west central and southwestern Illinois on upland… …
