Lab Assignment #7

Hey! I was wondering what could be some reasons I found the soil profile at the field pit location to have finer soil texture. I thought soil texture was really hard to change so was I wrong when I felt a finer texture? Thanks!

Our campus soils have quite coarse texture with very little clay in them. It is possible that organic matter (that accumulated in the A horizon of the cultivated soil pit) confused you to think that the texture is fine in that horizon. Organic matter tends to give that soapy fleeing, similar to silt.