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THE CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS
Author(s) -
LEEPER G. W.
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
journal of soil science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.244
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2389
pISSN - 0022-4588
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2389.1956.tb00861.x
Subject(s) - soil water , environmental science , soil science
The system of soil classification used by the National Cooperative Soil Survey has six categories. Beginning with the broadest, these categories are the order, suborder, great group, subgroup, family, and series. Classification is based on soil properties observed in the field or inferred from those observations or from laboratory measurements. In table 1, the soils of the survey area are listed alphabetically and are classified according to the system. The categories are defined in the following paragraphs.