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Soil Texture by Feel Flow Chart
Guide to Texture by Feel [online] http://soils.usda.gov/education/resources/lessons/texture/. Accessed 1 September 2011.
Modified from S.J. Thien. 1979. A flow diagram for teaching texture by feel analysis. Journal of Agronomic Education. 8:54-55.