Soil color

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  • Soil Color
definition
  • The property of a soil that is based upon three components of hue, chroma (intensity or brightness), and value (lightness or darkness). 
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Abstract from DBPedia
    Soil color does not affect the behavior and use of soil; however, it can indicate the composition of the soil and give clues to the conditions that the soil is subjected to. Soil can exhibit a wide range of colour; grey, black, white, reds, browns, yellows and greens. Varying horizontal bands of colour in the soil often identify a specific soil horizon. The development and distribution of color in soil results from chemical and biological weathering, especially redox reactions. As the primary minerals in soil parent material weather, the elements combine into new and colorful compounds. Soil conditions produce uniform or gradual color changes, while reducing environments result in disrupted color flow with complex, mottled patterns and points of color concentration.

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Soil_color)
data publication(s) found by GCMD Science Keywords)
  • Data supplement to "Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: New insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile"

    (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.5.3.2018.001)