Intro to Soil Properties

Introduction soil function (and some properties).

Some additional notes.

1. Soil Texture Triangle (Practice with this animation)
2. Keep in mind huge surface area of many soils (see example in Chapter 2 for 1 gram of soil).
3. Read Chapter 3 for next time.
4. If you still cannot see the slides log into the e-mail you used to accept the blog invitation at least once, log out and then try again. Some folks created g-mail accounts, but did not actually ever log back into the new accounts.
5. EXAM 1 has been rescheduled for Wednesday February 16th. Notebooks will be due at the beginning of class.
6. Location of Link to Farmland Preservation GIS model mentioned in class.