Soil Test

My soil is definetly a sandt loam. It has very little cohesion when wet, and would not form a ball in my hand. It was also gritty.

 

A sandy soil lets water flow more than any other kind of soil, and water will move through my soil quickly. In the area are mostly grasses, ants, small spiders, and weeds.

 

The grasses roots will slow the water leaching through the soil and the grasses will slow surface runoff. The soil already has air pores, but the ants breaking up the soil with their tunnels would increase the air pores.

 

 

This soil will not erode quickly, but all soils eventually erode. I think it has good potential, though, to last the longest of most soils. Its movement would not be too detrimental for building, as it is already mostly flat. Moving soils, however, might decrease the potential to water to get to the small shrubs clustered in the valley. If soil were removed, it would be dumped in an area that would lose its potential to retain water and nutrients.

 

Done