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  1. SOIL PROFILE DESCRIPTIONS. Soils Properties and Processes. 2003. NRE 430/EEB 489. Master Horizons and Layers. The capital letters O, A, E, B, C, and R represent the master horizons and layers of soils. The capital letters are the base symbols to which other characters are added to complete the designation. Old. New.

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  2. A Soil Profile. Background. If you look in a soil pit or on a roadside cut, you will see various layers in the soil. These layers are called soil horizons. The arrangement of these horizons in a soil is known as a soil profile.

  3. What is a soil profile? The soil profile is defined as a vertical section of the soil that is exposed by a soil pit or soil sample. A soil pit is a hole that is dug from the surface of the soil to the underlying bedrock. What is a soil horizon?

  4. Task Overview: Soil profile refers to layers of soil. A typical soil profile takes nearly 1,000 to 100,000 years to form. The formation of the soil profile mainly depends on parent rock material, climate, topography, and vegetation. A soil profile comprises 5 major soil horizons (i.e., layers). They are the O, A, B, C and R horizons.

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  5. Write your name, location chosen and date at the top of your worksheet. Observe the soil profile. Select a suitable scale for your sketch. 1. If the drawing is half the size then the scale is 1:2 or 1 to 2.

  6. What is a Soil Profile? •A Soil Profile is a vertical cross-section of layers of soil found in a given area. Below are two examples of soil profiles.

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  8. This simple guide for describing soils helps to identify the most important parts of a soil profile and provide an easy way to understand and explain what you see. It gives you a step-by-step guide of what soil properties to describe and how to describe them, along with the tools to make basic soil classifications.

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