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Soils Internet Resources

If some of these links break, or disappear, let me know (and pass along suggestions for other interesting places for people to visit).

National Soil Survey Center
This link goes to the National Soil Survey Cente. Here are guides to the current U.S. soil classification system. The site contains helpful information about various kinds of soils, soil classification units, etc. Access to a national soils database soils database. Links to the Global Change Program of the NRCS.

Soil Science Society of America
The SSSA is the professional society for soil scientists in North America.

USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
The NRCS is part of the Department of Agriculture. It used to be the Soil Conservation Service (SCS). NRCS publishes soil surveys of agricultural areas of the U.S. Links from the NRCS page should get you to any digitized soils information produced by the U. S. government.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Soils Division
This site has some more general information on soils projects at the NRCS.

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
This link goes to the home page for the FAO, whose mission includes soils, but also agriculture and food resources around the world.

Below are few links to other home pages

University of Minnesota's soils home page

Michigan State University

University of Wisconsin

Geotechnical Engineering Virtual Library
This link highlights soil mechanics and other aspects of engineering geology.

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