Talk:Soil horizon
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what are the different type of soil horizons and there characteristics?
I'll look into it. Also, we could get a picture of a cross section of soil with horizons, eh? Lotusduck 19:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Woah, look at that. I think I answered your question. However, someone has to do soil horizon formation, and merge with Horizon Soil. I'll get right on it. Lotusduck 21:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
With ever growing and changing terminology, this page does need references. Also, I have made some style screw ups. However, I am still proud of what I just did. Maybe one day someone will fix it up right. Lotusduck 21:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed article merger
I support an article merger, with the following qualifier. Rather than merging soil profile with soil horizon, it makes more sense to merge soil horizon into soil profile:
Soil profile is a WPCD candidate article, soil horizon is not. I sense this is because:The phrase, soil profile, has higher recognition. For example, the search term "soil profile" gets 1,040,000 Google hits, "soil horizon" gets 158,000.Soil profile, created in December 2002, is the more established article. Soil horizon was created in February, 2005.Soil horizon is a subsidiary concept to soil profile. -- Paleorthid 18:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Moved to Talk:Soil profile. -- Paleorthid 13:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Revamp time!
Launched a major revision of the article, added a bunch more detail and corrected a few factual errors. This still needs a lot of work - there's no mention of European systems of horizon description, and I don't know enough about the US system to be able to discuss it in sufficient detail (to anyone who is familiar with it: help help!). Due to the number of ways one can describe horizons, I think this article is always going to be a pain in the ass to manage and may eventually have to be split into an article for each system, perhaps leaving this one as a basic intro/start point. It also needs more linkage to articles on various soil formation processes, many of which haven't been written yet. Leobrien 07:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
