Actual Playin in the Dirt

Here are some lovely pictures from our lab out at the community garden behind Centenary. 

We looked at the different plants and the bugs, and then had a brief mudfight!!

Before we went into the community garden we took a soil sample with a tool that takes a core out of the ground and we were able to see the differences in the soil types. It went from more of a dirt to the infamous Georgia red clay.

There are 12 soils types in the world and they are as follow : Alfisols, Andisols, Aridisols, Entisols,Gelisols, Histosols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Oxisols, Spodosols, Ultisols, and Vertisols.
Here is a handy-dandy link to a handy-dandy website that will tell you all about them! http://soils.cals.uidaho.edu/soilorders/orders.htm
And here is one to a handy-dandy poster!
http://www.soils.usda.gov/technical/soil_orders/

Inceptisols which sounds like a type of soil that will steal into your minds and see your thoughts (Reference to Inception) :) is a type of soil that exhibits minimal horizon development. They are the second most common soil in the ice-free land area, the most being Entisols. They do however support about 20% of the world's population, the most of all the soil orders.  In America they are concentrated in the New England area, as seen in this map.