Talk:Soil

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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 8, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 13, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
October 31, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former featured article candidate

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Section sizes

Section size for Soil (41 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,287	9,287
Processes	11,930	11,930
Composition	12,307	12,307
Formation	7,825	7,825
Physical properties	4,154	4,154
Soil moisture	2,871	2,871
Soil gas	12,147	12,147
Solid phase (soil matrix)	1,419	1,419
Soil biodiversity	1,296	1,296
Chemistry	1,997	33,416
Cation and anion exchange	8,259	15,714
Cation exchange capacity (CEC)	3,827	3,827
Anion exchange capacity (AEC)	3,628	3,628
Reactivity (pH)	9,226	14,663
Base saturation percentage	2,276	2,276
Buffering	3,161	3,161
Redox	1,042	1,042
Nutrients	7,212	7,212
Soil organic matter	8,282	26,859
Humus	13,415	13,415
Climatological influence	3,725	3,725
Plant residue	1,437	1,437
Horizons	9,934	9,934
Classification	1,221	1,221
Uses	16,387	16,387
Degradation	1,383	19,068
Acidification	1,650	1,650
Contamination	4,686	4,686
Desertification	3,077	3,077
Erosion	5,702	5,702
Salination	2,570	2,570
Reclamation	8,895	8,895
History of studies and research	529	15,544
Studies of soil fertility	11,611	11,611
Studies of soil formation	3,404	3,404
See also	513	513
References	30	30
Sources	509	509
Bibliography	1,660	1,660
Further reading	1,252	1,252
External links	3,600	3,600
Total	209,336	209,336

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This article was selected as the article for improvement on 9 May 2022 for a period of one week.

Wiki Education assignment: Plant Ecology Winter 2023

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2023 and 10 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Zenturaa (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Zenturaa (talk) 19:10, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Error in Soil Chart

The soil chart currently linked in the article appears to have an error in it; the bottom label should be %sand, not %soil (since it's all soil). Endovior (talk) 04:54, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that too, I found this but it's without the comments and the example: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/USDA-Soil-Texture-Triangle_fig2_279631053 DylanLow108 (talk) 15:48, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Triangle plot

One of the axis of the soil texture triangle plot says '%soil'. This should be '%sand', because 100% of it makes the soil sand, and the text of the image says the third soil type is sand, and every image I found on the internet, labels the axis as sand. I don't know how to edit this. Wikifan153 (talk) 09:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't notice this before I published my other comment (sorry), I've added a link to Soil texture, the graphs there appear to be more correct. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to change the image 'professionally' yet... DylanLow108 (talk) 15:58, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've switched image files to use the correctly labelled version at Soil texture. Other versions are available such as File:SoilTexture USDA.svg, which uses colour to emphasise the different fields and I find easier to read. Mikenorton (talk) 16:28, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of Elaine Ingham

I want to suggest we find a location in the article to include/reference Elaine Ingham and perhaps secondarily on pages such as soil food web. In addition to her important research on soil microbiology (which is not well described on her page) she is a ceaseless educator and advocate for soil restoration who has done probably as much outreach and training as anyone in the field. (Maybe also a good candidate for attention by Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists. ) Beyond what is noted on her page, she was (one of) the first to advance the premise that soil contained tens of thousands of bacterial species/gm, long before there was confirmation of this level of biodiversity by rRNA/DNA testing. Zatsugaku (talk) 16:16, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Active sites

What type of active sites do we have in solid phase and adsorbate are being adsorbed on each active site? Strength Masamba (talk) 17:39, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]