What do glaciers and the Sahara Desert have in common? Both are sources of silt-size particles that interact with wind, sand, and vegetation to form loess deposits. Deflation, the lifting and ...

“If a sand particle is a 747 airliner, a silt particle is a Cessna and a clay particle is a hummingbird.” Another physical aspect is aggregate stability. “Healthy soil has particles bound ...

Loam is a combination of sand, silt, and clay—the three sizes of soil particles from largest to ... encouraging more soil ...

Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic matter. Both the clay and organic matter particles have a net negative charge. Thus, these negatively-charged soil particles will ...