Geoff-
        What aspect of soil description are you inquiring about?  Soil
color, composition, or consolidation?  Also, how is the "triangle" (which is
a classification scheme for soil composition) too abstract?
 
 
At 09:18 PM 6/8/98 +0200, you wrote:
>anyone have a simple and/or fool/idiot-proof system of soil descriptions which
>doesn't involve comparison to known samples? just asked a pedologist about the
>system out of Museum of London (handy flow-chart formula [which you can use in
>the field, which is really what i'm on about: the triangle is just too
>abstract], where you just have to roll balls or rolls or listen for scrunchy
>sand between your fingers) and he says it just don't make sense -
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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