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53 <br />• Consistence: The notation of consistence varies with moisture <br /> content. <br /> Wet soil: Dry soil: <br /> nonsticky ...............wso lcose...............dl <br /> slightly sticky.........wss soft ................ds <br /> sticky ..................ws slightly hard.......dsh <br /> very sticlcy .............wvs hard................dh <br /> nonplastic ..............wpo very hard...........dvh <br /> slightly plastic........wps extremely hard......deh <br /> plastic .................wp Canentation: <br /> very plastic............wvp weakly cermnted.....cw <br /> Moist soil: strongly cemented...cs <br /> loose ...................ml indurated...........ci <br /> very friable............mvfr Note: <br /> friable .................mfr "w" and "d" shown by <br /> firm ....................mfi columns in SCS-232 form <br /> very fiim ...............mvfi so not put into symbols. <br /> extrenely fixm..........mefi <br />• <br /> Reaction: Use pH figures. <br /> Indicate effervescence with HC1 as: <br /> slight ................e <br /> strong ................es <br /> violent ...............ev <br /> Special features: <br /> Concretions, for example, as: <br /> lime .................conca <br /> iron .................conir <br /> siliceous............consi <br /> krotovinas...........k <br /> lIn an outline, the lower bourYlary of a horizon is noted. <br /> 2Read "thin" and "thick" for platy in stead of "fine" and "coarse". <br /> 3Unrecamiended synonyms for subangula r blocky are subangular nut <br /> and nucifoxm. <br /> 4"Very weak" and "vezy strong" may be noted as vl and v3, respec- <br /> tively. <br />• Other special features may be included under "ranarks". <br />