Practice Day #2

 On practice day #2, we got to see some absolutely beautiful soils. We saw soil near a drainage way that was composed of all colluvium (soil that had gone down a slope and ended up forming a profile). You can see the beautiful red colors! 

This next pit was one of our favorites. It was deemed “The Joker” for its large almost “smile” of rock fragments (called a stone line). A large rock line is indicative of colluvium over another material from a lag in deposition as rocks moved down a slope. 

The soil was also sparkly! The mica in the rocks that formed these soils had beautiful shine, and left our hands looking like we had dipped them in glitter! 

We love soil!

This day we got to see some extra pits that NCSU had dug and shared a team pit with a few other schools. It has been really fun getting to know the other teams! Ended the day with a full catena of a hillslope colluvium on piedmont residuum!