Web Links

Soil taxonomy, morphology, and pedology

• SSSA Div. S-5 Pedology: Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils
• Taxonomy of soils and landscapes
• The eleven Soil Orders (University of Idaho)
• Soil Survey Manual
• Keys to Soil Taxonomy
• Revisions to the Soil Taxonomy
• Official Soil Series Description
• FAO Soil Classification
• Soils of Arid Regions of the U.S. and Israel (Office of Arid Land Studies)
• The virtual museum of minerals and molecules
• Soils under the microscope

Soil databases:

• Zobler world soil database
• Global and National Soils and Terrain Digital Databases (SOTER)
• Earth Info Environmental Database
• National Soil Information System (NASIS)
• Soil Survey Geographic Data Base (SSURGO) - USDA NRCS
• STATSGO (State Soil Geographic Data Base) - USDA NRCS
• STATSGO (Regional Scale State Soil Geographic Data Base)
• National MUIR Data Base - USDA NRCS

Glossaries:

• SSSA Glossary
• Soil Glossary, University of Washington, Seattle
• Mineral reference

Profiles (photos):

• Archive Project - University of Minnesota ('slides of soil profiles')
• Soil profiles of Europe
• Various soil profiles
• Soil photo gallery - soil orders

Soil related web sites:

• Worlds soil resources
• Soil Survey Division
• Larson Systems: Useful Soil Sites

Universities and Experiment Stations:

• Department of Soil Science - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Soil information (Dept. of Soil Science, University Putra Malaysia)
• Class Lectures Agronomy and Horticulture 282 at Brigham Young University
• Course 260 'Introduction to Soil Science' Cornell University
• UNLAgNIC Plant Science Page - Soils
• Course 255, Purdue University, West Lafayette
• Soil Web Site - University of Florida
• Soil and Water Science Department - University of Florida
• Earth System Science Center - Penn State University
• Dept. of Soil, Water and Climate Landscape Information - University of Minnesota
• Soil, Water and Environmental Science Dept. - University of Arizona
• Soils and Biogeochemistry - University California Davis
• Soil Science Homepage - Cal Poly College of Agriculture
• Department of Crop and Soil Sciences - University of Georgia
• Soils Department - University of Gottingen
• Soil Chemistry Laboratory - University of Idaho
• Department of Soil Science - Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
• Soil Science and Plant Nutrition - University of Western Australia
• Department of Crop and Soil Sciences - Michigan State University
• Department of Soil, Water, and Climate - University of Minnesota
• Soil Science Gopher - University of Minnesota
• Soil and Atmospheric Sciences - University of Missouri
• Penn State Agronomy
• Department of Soil Science - University of Reading
• Department of Soil Sciences - Swedish University of Agricultural Science
• Soil Physics - Utah State
• Plant and Soil Science - University of Massachusetts - Amherst
• Plant and Soil Science - University of Vermont

Government Agencies:

• US Geological Survey
• US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
• Soil Survey Division
• USDA NRCS Wisconsin

Journals:

• Sciences of Soil
• Australien Journal of Soil Research

Professional Societies:

• Soil Science Society of America
• Soil and Water Conservation Society
• National Society of Consulting Scientists

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