I'm totally confused about soils! Please help!?

Question

Can someone tell me what exactly what it meant by Kane break sois,Gomery association undulating,Falba sandy loam? I'm completely new to this and when i began researching, i didn't realize it was goign to be this complicated. Any advice will help. Thanks

Answer 1

Try these links.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different...

http://landscaping.about.com/cs/cheaplan...

http://www.wacona.com/soil2/soil.htm

Answer 2

Gomery and Falba are soil types.  It looks like that were established in Texas.  USDA and the agency that conduct soil survey is the Natural Resource Conservation Service.  Since the dust bowl days, soil surveys have been done.  About every 30-40 years, a county will be remapped again.

The names of Gomery and Falba for certain types of series.  When a new survey is started, soil information is collected and a search is done to see if it meet with any soil types already established.  If not, then a name is take from the area of where the soil established.  From that point on, any soil meeting that new soil type, it will be known as that soil type.  It could be in three counties away or states.  An example would be Winfield soil type.  It is found all along the Mississippi and Missouri river bluff area in several states.

There is a general soil survey manual produced for each county.  As a county is done, it is update with that county information.  In the soil survey, it will establish groups of soil known as associations.  

Here is a link to national wide soil survey information.  There is a lot of information here.

http://www.soilsurvey.org/index.asp

This link tell you about Flaba Sandy Loam soil series.  Each soil type will have this type of sheet.  It is here where you can find where this soil the was established.

http://ortho.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/F...

Soil Surveys are to help with general information about a given site of interest.  For example, home buyer wanting to buy ground but does not know if a house sewer system would work.  Chart information is given whether there are limitations or not.  If the soils show no limitations a lagoon site has a good possibility.  Then most likey contact the county health department about permits on sewer systems.

If you want a more detail map, there are Soil Scientists that would review and produce a very detail soils map.

Hope this will help.  

Answer 3

Aromatic keeps giving off effluvia of lime

Scandia aways breaks down

Repleted Loam needs quite a lot of qualm

Quorned clay needs a good thradgers butting.

Answer 4

Here is some information that will help you out.  It's simple and should help clear up the complications:

Kane:

The Kane series consists of very deep, somewhat poorly drained soils formed in as much as 51 cm (20 inches) of silty material and in the underlying loamy outwash over stratified calcareous gravel and sand. These soils are on outwash plains and stream terraces. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 914 mm (36 inches), and mean annual air temperature is about 9 degrees C (49 degrees F).

Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls

Kane silt loam - in a cultivated field at an elevation of about 237 meters (778 feet) above mean sea level. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)

For more detailed information:  http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/K/...

Gomery:

The Gomery series consists of deep, somewhat poorly drained, moderately slowly permeable soils on uplands. The soil formed from loamy materials weathered from sandstone. Slopes range from 1 to 15 percent.

Loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Arenic Hapludults

Gomery loamy fine sand - forested. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)

For more detailed information:  http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/G/...

Falba:

The Falba series consists of moderately deep, moderately well drained, very slowly permeable soils on uplands. These nearly level to moderately sloping soils formed in tuffaceous sandstones. Slopes range from 0 to 8 percent.

Fine, smectitic, thermic Aquic Paleustalfs

Falba fine sandy loam--pasture. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)

For more detailed information: http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/F/...

Answer 5

Go to your local FSA office/county extension office. They will have soil maps of your area and can help explain them to you. Ex. Falba sandy loam is just a local name for a sandy loam soil that is common to that area. Every state has different soil names, but the types will be similar. Sand, sandy loam, clay loam, clay etc...