A boxed kit of 12 reference samples; for teaching geography; forensics; science and agriculture. The samples have been air-dried; sieved through a 6mm mesh and packed in containers; with one of each soil type. The kit can be used for describing and grouping soils on the basis of characteristics; including; appearance; texture and permeability.
Labelled with soil type and contained in a Gratnells tray. Each set is supplied with a detailed experimental booklet.
Contents 10ml containers of each soil type.
- Cambisol (brown earth)
- Fluvisol (silt soil)
- Gley Soil (clay soil)
- Histosol (peat soil)
- Lithosol (calcareous clay)
- Leptosol (chalk soil)
- Podzol (elluviated sandy horizon)
- Rendzina (calcareous soil)
- Anthrosol (man made loam)
- Cryosol (tundra soil)
- Arenosol (sandy soil)
- Regosol (mountain soil)