Soil Color

• Easily identified property.

• Used to relate chemical/physical properties such as watertable depth, drainage, chemical constituents, formation, horizons.

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Soil color is the most obvious and easily determined soil characteristic. Although it has little known direct influence on the functioning of the soil, color is one of the most easily determined soil properties and other more important soil characteristics can be inferred from soil color.