I. SOIL FORMATION

References, Further Information

Fig. 3 is from The Indiana Water Resource. 1980. Indiana Department of Natural Resources (p. 25).

General information about soils of the state is in Cradle of Life: Soils, by D. P. Franzmeier. It is Chapter 4 of the book The Natural Heritage of Indiana, edited by M. T. Jackson, and published by Indiana University Press in 1997. This book also has many other chapters about the natural resources and cultural heritage of Indiana.

Specific information about soils can be found in county soil survey reports, available for all counties of the state in local Purdue Cooperative Extension Service and Soil and Water Conservation District offices.

 

Chapter 1 Sections

Factors of Soil Formation

Processes of Soil Formation

References, Further Information

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